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Maintenance Key to Medical Device Precision, Accuracy
December 7, 2017 — A baby in an incubator -- that was the image that Army engineering technician Tyler Dowell recalled as he described the importance of the mission at the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency's Medical Maintenance Operations Division-Tracy. MORE

Army Medical Maintenance Community Bids Farewell to Long-time Legend
December 1, 2017 — After more than 50 years on the job, biomedical equipment specialist Gordon Linford says it is time to pack up his tools. MORE

Medical Materiel Recapitalization Saves Lives, Money
November 20, 2017 — When a computerized tomography system arrives at Medical Maintenance Operations Division-Tracy, it often looks like it has been to war -- because it has. MORE

Army Medicine Logistics Leverage Contingency Programs to Support Hurricane Relief
November 17, 2017 — The U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency and the 6th Medical Logistics Management Center, in support of U.S. Army North, deployed assets to support the Department of Defense's ongoing disaster relief efforts in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. MORE

Army Funding Development of Battlefield Devices to Assess Moderate, Severe Brain Injury
October 27, 2017 — The U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command awarded two contracts totaling more than $12 million for the advanced development of two medical devices to aid in battlefield triage and treatment of wounded Service Members suspected of moderate to severe traumatic brain injury. MORE

USAMMA Leverages Medical Materiel Readiness Program to Reset Redeployed Unit
April 20, 2017 — The U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency completed a mission at Sierra Army Depot in Herlong, California April 4 to reset (i.e., replenish medical equipment) the 28th Combat Support Hospital (CSH). MORE

Army modernizes portable battlefield radiography system
April 11, 2017 — Soldiers on the battlefield will soon use a new portable digital radiography system (PDRS) that is smaller, lighter, less expensive and more cyber-secure than previously fielded systems. MORE

USAMMA Team Keeps Complex Medical Equipment Working in Complex Environment
March 21, 2017 — Somewhere in the world right now, there is a small, highly-skilled team of biomedical equipment specialists working in austere conditions to calibrate, repair and maintain the most advanced medical technology on and near the battlefield. MORE

USAMMA Works to Medically Equip the Army for Less Money
March 13, 2017 — The U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency teamed up with Defense Health Agency, Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support and Document Services to significantly reduce the cost of a common and essential tool used on the battlefield -- the Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) card. MORE

USAMMA Celebrates 'Star-studded' Cast
March 7, 2017 — You don't have to travel all the way to Hollywood to meet a superstar. You only have to go as far as Utah. That is where you will find Jeffery Franklin, a biomedical equipment technician assigned to the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency's Medical Maintenance Operations Division (MMOD) at Hill Air Force Base. MORE