This article is about a command of the U.S. Army. For the telecommunications equipment manufacturer, see Micom.
Not to be confused with Army Materiel Command (AMC), the U.S. Army's materiel provider and higher authority to the Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM).
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The U.S. ArmyAviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) is a United States Army command, managing the logistics and repair support of Army aviation, missile, and unmanned systems. It is a "major subordinate command" of Army Materiel Command. Aviation and Missile Command is headquartered at Redstone Arsenal, in Huntsville, Alabama.
AMCOM is the leader in Foreign Military Sales, accounting for over 50 percent of total Army sales to allied forces and friendly foreign nations.[citation needed]
AMCOM works closely with the DEVCOM Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC),[2] which operates simulation facilities to evaluate missile components, such as seekers, in a variety of flight environments. AMCOM also has access to several wind tunnels to test full-size helicopters, a vertical motion simulator for flight control evaluation and a crash-testing tower used to improve safety.
October 1948 – The Chief of Ordnance designated Redstone Arsenal as the center for ordnance research and development in the field of rockets.
1 June 1949 – The Chief of Ordnance officially activated the arsenal, becoming the site of the Ordnance Rocket Center.
28 October 1949 – The Secretary of the Army approved the transfer of the Ordnance Research and Development Division Sub-Office (Rocket) at Fort Bliss, Texas, to the Redstone Arsenal as the Ordnance Guided Missile Center.[3]
22 October 1952 – The Transportation Corps Army Aviation Field Service Office (TCAAFSO) established at St. Louis, Missouri, as a Class II Activity under the jurisdiction of the Chief of Transportation.
March 1955 – TCAAFSO and the Transportation Materiel Command (TMC) located in Marietta, Pennsylvania, which had logistical responsibility for rail and marine equipment, consolidated into the Transportation Supply and Maintenance Command (TSMC), headquartered at St. Louis, Missouri.
1 October 1959 – TSMC redesignated the Transportation Materiel Command (TMC).
23 May 1962 – The Missile Command (MICOM) was officially established at Redstone Arsenal, responsible for managing the Army's missile systems. MICOM became fully staffed and operational on 1 August 1962.
1 August 1962 – TMC placed under the jurisdiction of the Mobility Command (MOCOM), a major subordinate command of Army Materiel Command (AMC).
1 November 1962 – Transportation Materiel Command (TMC) redesignated to Aviation and Surface Materiel Command (AVSCOM).
28 February 1964 – AVSCOM redesignated to Aviation Materiel Command (AVCOM).
1 August 1966 – Assignment of AVCOM under MOCOM terminated, and AVCOM established as a major subordinate command of AMC.
23 September 1968 – Aviation Materiel Command (AVCOM) redesignated to Aviation Systems Command (AVSCOM), which returned to the original "AVSCOM" acronym.
31 Jan 1977 – As part of a larger reorganization to Army Materiel Command, the missions and people of MICOM were split between Missile Materiel Readiness Command (MIRCOM) and Missile Research and Development Command (MIRADCOM).
1 July 1977 – AVSCOM was discontinued, with its readiness mission combined with that of Troop Support Command (TROSCOM), forming TSARCOM (Troop Support and Aviation Materiel Readiness Command). The aviation R&D mission of AVSCOM was assigned to Aviation Research and Development Command (AVRADCOM).
1 July 1979 – AMC decided the most logical and efficient way to meet the Army missile program's requirements is under the single command concept. Consequently, MIRCOM and MIRADCOM were inactivated and their facilities, missions, and people combined in place under the reinstituted MICOM.
1 March 1984 – AVSCOM was reestablished, and all the missions and activities of AVRADCOM and aviation-related missions and elements of the Troop Support and Aviation Materiel Readiness Command (TSARCOM) were transferred to AVSCOM.
1 October 1992 – The Aviation and Troop Command (ATCOM) was formed at St. Louis, Missouri, combining the missions of the Aviation Systems Command (AVSCOM) and the Troop Support Command (TROSCOM).
17 July 1997 – Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) was provisionally established, merging the Aviation and Troop Command (ATCOM) with the Missile Command (MICOM).[a]
1 October 1997 – The Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) was permanently established at Redstone Arsenal.
AMCOM's main organizations are organized into centers:
Acquisition Center – responsible for contracting support.
AMCOM Logistics Center (ALC) – responsible for logistics support.
The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command is a LCMC.[10] Thus it has an associated contracting center.[11] This LCMC, Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command, was formerly Aviation and Missile Command.[further explanation needed] This LCMC purchases about $1 billion worth of aircraft and missile parts each year.[1]
^According to ATCOM's FY1996 Annual Command History, in September 1996, the commanding general of MICOM proposed that Missile and Aviation Command (MAVCOM) be the name of the merged command. However, Headquarters, AMC preferred the BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure Commission) name—the Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM)—which was instituted on 17 July 1997.[7]
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