Medical Materiel Contingency Requirement (MMCR)

Date of Publication:

8/23/2017

Definition:

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, force health protection requirements.
• Deployment of health readiness capabilities, to include filling unit or assemblage shortages.
• Sustainment of health readiness operations.
• Large scale health threats, such as pandemic disease or Consequence Management.
• Combatant Command specific requirements not otherwise captured.