A civilian medical provider, or medical provider group under contract with the TRICARE Program.

An individual eligible for care pursuant to Section 101 of Title 38, U.S.C., et. seq.

Includes hospital care, medical services, and rehabilitative services, pursuant to Paragraphs (5), (6), and (8) of Section 1701 of Title 38, U.S.C.; counseling and mental health services pursuant to Sections 1782 and 1783 of Title 38, U.S.C.; and any other health care service, support or administrative resource.

Is used to document a mutual understanding between any two or more parties that does not contain an expectation of payment, and under which the parties do not rely on each other to execute or deliver on any responsibilities. Support agreements for temporarily assigning federal civil service personnel between federal entities in accordance with Section 334...

A facility established for the purpose of furnishing medical and/or dental care to eligible individuals.

The ability of military forces to fight and meet the demands of assigned missions.

A person who is a primary beneficiary of the Department of Veterans Affairs or of the Department of Defense.

All available manpower, facilities, equipment, supplies, and funding to produce health care services, and any other health care support or administrative resource.

A medical unit responsible for strategic storage of frozen blood products in a combatant command with a geographic area of responsibility. Frozen blood products are provided to each combatant command component based on joint blood program instructions.

A systematic investigation, including research development, testing, and evaluation, designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge. Activities that meet this definition constitute research for purposes of this issuance, whether or not they are conducted or supported under a program that is considered research for other purposes. The followi...

The process of obtaining warm fresh whole blood (non-FDA compliant) from screened donors for emergency transfusion.

U.S. Army Combat Medics, U.S. Navy Hospital and Independent Duty Corpsmen, and U.S. Air Force Aerospace Medicine and Independent Duty Medical Technicians.

Any of the four main groups into which human blood is divided (A, B, AB, or O) and includes Rhesus factor, a positive or negative indicator of the presence or absence of an inherited protein on the surface of red blood cells.

A tri-Service-staffed organization, led by the Secretary of the Air Force, responsible for central receipt and confirmation of blood products from CONUS blood banks and the further shipment of those products to designated combatant commands with geographic area of responsibilities and other medical treatment facilities.

A nation that the United States works with in a specific situation or operation.  In security cooperation, a nation with which the Department of Defense conducts security cooperation activities.