A reference list of pharmaceutical items for support during the first 30 days of contingency operations. The JDF is intended to promote the standardization and sustainability of pharmaceutical items as components of medical assemblages and in planning and preparation for early sustainment of deployed forces.

The DoD medical and dental programs, personnel, facilities, and other assets, operating pursuant to chapter 55 of Reference (a), by which the DoD provides health care services and support to the Military Services during military operations, and health care services and support under TRICARE to members of the Military Services, their family members, and ot...

Items of medical materiel (supplies and equipment) that the MHS must anticipate and plan for in order to build, deploy, and sustain health readiness capabilities in support of globally integrated operations. These include the materiel required for:

• Service medical assemblages or unit allowance standards.
• Population-based, for...

The ability to maintain the necessary level and duration of operational activity to achieve military objectives.  Sustainability is a function of providing for and maintaining those levels of ready forces, materiel, and consumables necessary to support military effort.

Defined in DoDD 5136.13.

A detailed representation of DOD medical contingency requirements used by the Services and the DLA to conduct strategic assessments of materiel availability in order to assess risk, plan sourcing, and program for readiness programs. The MCF contains time phased requirements at the line item (national stock numbers or part number) level of detail.

The application of DOD standard medical logistics business processes, information systems, and collaborative management to provide the life cycle management of specialized medical products and services required to deliver military health care across the range of military operations. These include medical materiel (supplies, gases, equipment, assemblages),...

A quality that applies to materiel or systems:

a. possessing like and interchangeable characteristics enabling each to be utilized, or operated and maintained, by personnel trained on the others without additional specialized training;

b. having interchangeable repair parts and/or components; and

c. applies to consumable items interchangeably equivalent with...

Ability to think, plan, communicate, and act in a manner that allows effective and efficient (timely) adaptation to an unfolding situation. Agility is reflected in how well logistics operations respond in an environment of unpredictability.

For inventory management, a distinct item for sale or issue; sometimes referred to as a ‘line item’.

Medical materiel items that have been recommended for MHS use by an accepted joint process, for example, the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care, but not yet adopted as standardized items in the Defense Medical Materiel Standardization Program (DMMSP).

The ability to deliver effects when appropriate, at a desired time, or within a stated timeframe.

Medical materiel items that have been standardized for MHS use through the Defense Medical Materiel Standardization Program (DMMSP) or other accepted joint clinically driven standardization process, including the joint deployment formulary (JDF).

The coalition of medical logistics organizations and activities of the Military Departments and the Defense Agencies that provides focus, collaboration, teamwork, and a shared sense of purpose and vision for meeting the needs of military health care across the full range of military operations.

The leadership framework comprised of collaborative forums that channel authorities of the separate services and defense agencies to make decisions based on shared DMLEnt vision, strategy, objectives, and priorities.