United States Army Medical Materiel Agency

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The United States Army Medical Materiel Agency (USAMMA), a subordinate unit of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command at Fort Detrick, Maryland, serves as the U.S. Army’s executive agent for strategic medical logistics programs and initiatives.

USAMMA's mission is to provide medical materiel life-cycle management and logistics solutions to the Army medical units across the full spectrum of health care missions worldwide. The Agency fields all new medical materiel for the Army Medical Department (AMEDD) and centrally manages several U.S. Army and Army Surgeon General contingency programs including the acquisition, storage, distribution, and transfer of pre-positioned stocks located ashore and afloat, as well as medical chemical defense equipment, short shelf-life pharmaceuticals, and other materiel. USAMMA is responsible for the deployment of materiel handoff teams and operational oversight of medical materiel acquisition vehicles. The Agency’s core skills and technologies center on conducting life-cycle management for commercial and non-developmental items, sustaining and modernizing the Army’s medical force, supporting exercises and contingency operations, and promoting medical logistics information and knowledge.