text: Medical Logistics
  Table 12-1. Primary tasks and purposes of the medical logistics function
  Primary task Purpose
  Program funding, develop, acquire, and field the most cost-effective
  and efficient medical materiel support to satisfy materiel
  Execute medical materiel requirements generated by doctrinal and organizational revisions to
  procurement tables of organization and equipment, as well as user-generated
  requirements, state-of-the-art advancements, and initiatives to
  enhance materiel readiness.
  Provide intensive management and coordinated distribution of
  Conduct Class VIII management specialized medical products and services required to operate an
  and coordinate distribution integrated Army Health System anywhere in the world in peace and
  throughout the competition continuum.
  Perform appropriate maintenance checks, services, repairs, and
  Perform medical equipment tests on medical equipment set component equipment items as
  maintenance and repair specified in applicable technical manuals or manufacturer operating
  instructions.
  Fabricate and repair prescription eyewear that includes spectacles,
  Conduct optical fabrication and protective mask inserts, and similar ocular devices for eligible
  repair personnel in accordance with applicable Army policies and
  regulations.
  Provide collection, manufacturing, storage, and distribution of blood
  and blood products to echelons above brigade Army Health System
  Provide blood management (and
  units. Provide coordination for distribution of blood and blood
  coordination for distribution)
  products to Role 2 medical treatment facilities and forward surgical
  teams.
  Support in-transit patients, exchange in-kind patient movement
  Perform centralized management items without degrading medical capabilities, and provide prompt
  of patient movement items recycling of patient movement items from initial movement to the
  patient’s final destination.
  Provide a reliable inventory of facilities that meet specific codes and
  Conduct health facilities planning standards, maintains accreditation, and affords the best possible
  and management health care environment for the Soldiers, Family members, and
  retired beneficiaries.
  Provide medical contracting Ensure the establishment and monitoring of contracts for critical
  support medical items and services.
  Ensure the proper collection, control, transportation, and disposal of
  Ensure hazardous medical waste
  regulated medical waste in accordance with applicable Army and
  management and disposal
  host-nation policies and regulations.
  Ensure the production, receipt, storage, use, inspection,
  Ensure production and distribution
  transportation, and handling of medical gases and their cylinders in
  of medical gases
  accordance with all applicable regulations.
  * The Defense Logistics Agency, as the DOD executive agent for medical materiel, coordinates
  medical prime vendor and other strategic acquisition programs to enable operational and strategic
  level MEDLOG organizations to order and receive materiel directly from commercial suppliers.
  The Defense Logistics Agency also coordinates these programs with the United States
  Transportation Command to enable direct delivery to Army medical materiel centers in theater
  without intermediate government inventory or handling.
  * The U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command is the Army’s medical materiel
  developer, with responsibility for medical research, development, and acquisition. The U.S. Army
  Medical Research and Development Command manages and executes research in military
  infectious diseases, combat casualty care, military operational medicine, chemical biological
  defense, and clinical and rehabilitative medicine. The command’s product line includes vaccines,
  pharmaceuticals, medical devices, medical equipment, and information technology. They work