The Combatant Commander’s ability to integrate, synchronize and sustain Ready Medical Forces and Medically Ready Forces to execute his or her assigned mission.

The process by which the Department of Defense achieves the closest practicable cooperation among the Services and Department of Defense agencies for the most efficient use of research, development, and production resources, and agrees to adopt on the broadest possible basis the use of: 

• common or compatible operational, administr...

Specialized logistics services required to support operation of an MTF. These include, but are not limited to, hospital housekeeping, linen and laundry, and the management and disposal of regulated medical waste.

Enterprise service activity consolidated under DHA management and provided to the Military Departments as a service in order to reduce unnecessary redundancies, improve performance, decrease costs, and enable the MHS to operate more efficiently as an integrated health system.

The ability to respond to changing conditions and environments by adjusting to apply appropriate mass and weight of effort.

The single source of basic business data used across all systems, applications, and processes across the DMLEnt and other authorized users within the DoD information environment. Includes data related to materiel, vendors, contract and price, and customers.

Formally organized procedures, processes, and responsibilities administered by the DHA in collaboration with the Military Departments that support the Services in execution of common functions and activities to improve DMLEnt performance and promote joint readiness.

Medical and select non-medical materiel, including personal protective equipment, required to protect or impair the effects of major population health threats such as pandemic disease and weapons of mass destruction.

A function of the MHS that provides the ability to organize and provide life-cycle management of specialized medical products and logistics services required to support health readiness requirements across the range of military operations. Medical logistics functions include management of medical materiel (supplies, gases, equipment, and assemblages), med...

A data structure and value domain set that is readily available to provide common domains of data values to different databases.

The ability to deliver required supplies/services to the customer at the lowest total delivered cost, or the ability to provide required support with the smallest logistics footprint.

The ability to generate accurate, relevant and appropriate effects.

The use of electronic data interchange standards to exchange transactions with commercial supplier networks. The DLA medical prime vendor program and the electronic catalog use eCommerce.

A data source whose products have undergone producer data verification, validation and certification activities.

A specified range of clinical procedures, actions, and processes that a DoD health care provider has been granted authority by his or her Military Department or by the Defense Health Agency to perform.