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The TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (LCMC) is one of the Army Materiel Command's (AMC's) three LCMCs. Its mission is to deliver sustainable readiness by operationalizing essential functions at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels.
TACOM provides support across the life cycles of major end items, which are the critical systems that enable the Army to perform its missions. Many of these major end items are employed by other services within the Department of Defense.
These items include the Ml Abrams tanks used by the Marine Corps, the mine-resistant ambushprotected (MRAP) vehicles used by the Air Force and Navy, and the small arms used by the Coast Guard. If a sister service uses a TACOM-supported major end item, TACOM will provide some level of support to that joint partner.
TACOM's Role
Sustainment is a team sport. As an LCMC, TACOM is an active member of the Army acquisition team and is partnered with supported program executive offices (PEOs) for major systems and capabilities. The PEOs and their subordinate program managers acquire major end items and capabilities for the force, and TACOM teams with them to sustain the equipment once it is fielded.
TACOM is also closely linked with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), a major joint partner that provides critical repair parts and secondary items to support the systems that TACOM is responsible for.
The most common types of support TACOM provides to joint partners fall within one of the following five essential functions: materiel fielding support, the Logistics Assistance Program (LAP), supply chain support, organic industrial base (OIB) support, and the Fleet Management Expansion (FMX) program.
Materiel Fielding and Training
Within TACOM's Field Support Operations Directorate, the Materiel Fielding and Training (MF&T) Division is responsible for fielding state-of-the-art equipment to units. The MF&T Division also provides training on the proper operation and maintenance of this equipment.
The MF&T team can support any service that receives equipment acquired by one of the TACOMsupported PEOs. So far in fiscal year 2017, the MF&T team has performed more than 433 new equipment training events and supported the fielding of 169 systems across 19 program managers. Some of the support went to joint partners in the Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard.
Logistics Assistance Program
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