Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

Biomedical research facility administered by the U.S. Department of Defense Walter Reed Army Institute of ResearchEmblem of WRAIRActive1953–presentCountry United StatesBranch United States ArmyRoleMilitary medical research and developmentPart of U.S. Army Medical Research and Development CommandGarrison/HQForest Glen Annex, MarylandWebsitewrair.health.milCommandersCommanderCOL Brianna PerataCommand Sergeant MajorCSM Monnet R. BushnerMilitary unit The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) is the largest biomedical research facility administered by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The institute is centered at the Forest Glen Annex, in the Forest Glen Park part of the unincorporated Silver Spring urban area in Maryland just north of Washington, DC, but it is a subordinate unit of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC), headquartered at nearby Fort Detrick, Maryland. At Forest Glen, the WRAIR has shared a laboratory and administrative facility — the Sen Daniel K. Inouye Building, also known as Building 503 — with the Naval Medical Research Center since 1999. The Institute takes its name from Major Walter Reed, MD (1851–1902), the Army phy