Fort Belvoir's reach is worldwide because more than 23,000 military personnel, federal employees, contractors and volunteers work here every day to fulfill the missions of more than 100 defense organizations. As a strategic sustaining base for America's Army, the work done at Fort Belvoir is vital to the success of the goals and objectives of the nation's defense strategy.

A list of the organizations that call Fort Belvoir home reads like a "Who's Who" of the Department of Defense. No other Army installation in the world can compare to Fort Belvoir and its singular mission to provide both logistical and administrative support to such a diverse mix of tenant and satellite organizations.

Fort Belvoir is home to three Army major command headquarters and elements of 10 others; more than 25 different agencies of the Department of Army; elements of the Army Reserve and the Army National Guard; and numerous DoD agencies. Also located here are a Marine Corps detachment, a Navy unit, an Air Force aviation support unit and an agency from the Department of the Treasury. Among the organizations located here are:

AAFES - FORT BELVOIR EXCHANGE

Serves authorized customers by providing high quality goods and services at low prices and at the lowest cost.

AIR FORCE PETROLEUM OFFICE

A diverse operational detachment from Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Robins Air Force Base, Ga., headquartered at Defense Logistics Agency Headquarters Complex. AFPET consists of three divisions: Technical, Logistics Readiness & Operations Division and Plans & Programs Division. It is responsible for providing logistics support, quality assurance, service engineering and laboratory testing services for petroleum and chemical products. AFPET provides fuel support by acting as the service control point for fuel requirements and equipment and provides guidance and expertise for base level and major command fuels issues. It is responsible for acquisition, installation and maintenance of hardware and software to field DoD automated source-data collection for petroleum distribution equipment and systems. For more details, visit https://afpet.wpafb.af.mil/.

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, LOCAL 1052

The authorized representative and bargaining agent for non-supervisory employees at Fort Belvoir in all matters relating to the post's working conditions, work-related policies and practices.

AMERICAN RED CROSS

Provides the emergency communication line between soldiers and their family members, access to financial assistance in times of emergencies, disaster assistance and information and referral services. A full range of health and safety courses are available to all members of the community, to include CPR and first aid training, babysitter's training, swimming and lifeguard training.

U.S. ARMY ACQUISITION SUPPORT CENTER

The U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center (ASC) is a field-operating agency directly supporting the Army Acquisition Executive/Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology (AL&T) and the Director of Acquisition Career Management. ASC:

• Provides oversight for the Army Acquisition Corps (AAC) and the AL&T Workforce by ensuring the professional development of the entire workforce as mandated in the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act of 1990.
• Provides major command-level support to Program Executive Offices in the areas of resource management, human resources management and force structure.
• Provides policy, guidance, support and services regarding acquisition issues and initiatives.
• Provides proponency functions that include doctrine, training, education, orce design, policy and programs.

This agency is the single Army representative for airspace, air traffic control procedures and aeronautical information. It represents the Army with national and international aeronautical matters, serves as the Army's primary interface with the Federal Aviation Administration and provides Army representatives at each FAA regional headquarters.

ARMY ENTERTAINMENT DIVISION

This Fort Belvoir-based division of the U.S. Army Community and Family Support Center is an Army Morale, Welfare and Recreation program that offers soldiers and families opportunities to participate in a variety of performing arts onstage, backstage and as spectators. There are six AED program areas. The U.S. Army Soldier Show is a high-energy, MTV/Broadway-style musical variety show staged and performed by up to 30 soldiers selected by audition. The show tours worldwide between May and October. The Army Concert Tour brings top-name entertainers to a dozen installations around the U.S. each summer. Soldier music activities include the All-Army Battle of Bands, the Stars of Tomorrow talent search, and USA Express, an all-soldier show band that tours annually, taking musical entertainment to soldiers deployed and stationed at remote sites, which civilian entertainers cannot visit. The Army Community Theater program makes the Army the largest producer of plays at the community theater level, with 26 active community theaters at Army installations staging shows for more than 200,000 people a year. Launched in 2000, BRAVO! Army Theatre Touring Company annually tours a self-contained theatrical production with a cast comprised entirely of active-duty soldiers. For details, visit www.armyentertaiment.net.

ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPEMENT CENTER (ERDC), TOPOGRAPHIC ENGINEERING CENTER

The ERDC, Topographic Engineer Center provides the warfighter with a superior knowledge of the battlefield and supports the nation's civil and environmental initiatives through research, development and expertise in topographic and related sciences.

ARMY FORCE MANAGEMENT SCHOOL

The Army Force Management School (AFMS) was established as the Army's central educational institution for preparing senior analysts and leaders for assignment in the Force Management community worldwide. The school provides force management training to selected Army officers, noncommissioned officers and Department of Army civilians serving in or selected for force management or related assignments Army-wide. The school provides updated force management publications and consolidated force management support to the Army Staff, Army major commands, and Army Agencies, as required. The school seeks to provide a small corps of force management experts to the Army.

ARMY FORCE MANAGEMENT SUPPORT AGENCY

Part of a field operating agency of the Army's Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans, this agency is responsible for managing and modernizing force documentation (Modification Table of Equipment, Table of Distribution and Allowances, Mobilization Table of Distribution and Allowances) of all personnel and equipment requirements and authorizations for the Army. ADD, USAFMSA, builds and maintains the database for all MTOE and TDA documents for the Army. USAFMSA also provides analytical support to the Army's force integration and management community, from installation level through the major commands to the Department of the Army senior leadership.

ARMY INSPECTOR GENERAL SCHOOL

Conducts the Army Inspector General Course. Created in 1983, this three-week course is for commissioned officers, Department of Army civilians, warrant officers and NCOs assigned to Army inspector general offices worldwide. The course teaches concepts, techniques and issues relating to the IG system. It examines basic policies and procedures pertaining to the mission of IGs, including assistance, investigations, inspections and teaching and training. The course develops and reinforces the qualities, behavior, knowledge and skills required of IGs to enable them to be functioning, knowledgeable and contributing members of the IG system once they arrive at their assignments. Army IGs are required to attend this course before performing IG duties. There is also space available for sister services and DoD agencies.

AREA MAINTENANCE SUPPORT ACTIVITY 91 (GROUND/WATERCRAFT)

Provides maintenance for Army Reserve ground and watercraft units in the Washington, D.C., area.

ARMY MANAGEMENT STAFF COLLEGE

The Army Management Staff College prepares sustaining base leaders…military and civilian leaders who aid our nation's Soldiers to meet their mission in times of conflict and peace. Our mission is simple, but vital for our Nation…We teach the thinking and link ing skills that build a culture of continuous change and innovation critical to Army Transformation. We also offer consulting services and conduct research in support of the Army's sustaining base.

We offer six courses of study, including the Sustaining Base Leadership and Management resident and non-resident programs. SBLM teaches the business of the Army with development of key skills such as leadership, communication and problem solving. Personnel Management for Executives I and II focus on a leader's skill in dealing with the "people" issues of any organization. Our Command Programs prepare incoming installation and garrison commanders and their sergeants major for new command assignments. These courses focus on the issues of blending people with resources, facilities, environment, logistics, mobilization, training, personnel and security. The General Officer Installation Course and the Garrison Precommand Course are mandatory for incoming installation and garrison commanders. The Garrison Sergeants Major Course is highly encouraged for installation and garrison sergeants major.

ARMY MANPOWER ANALYSIS AGENCY

The Army manpower analysis Agency provides the Secretary of the Army with an independent assessment capability of total Army requirements in the generating force, by reviewing and validating established manpower requirements procedures, models and concepts, and developing requirements based on validated missions and workload.

ARMY MATERIEL COMMAND: ESSENTIAL IN PEACE, INDISPENSABLE IN WAR.

AMC is the Army's premier provider of materiel readiness - technology, acquisition support, materiel development, logistics power projection, and sustainment - to the total force, across the spectrum of joint military operations. If a Soldier shoots it, drives it, flies it, wears it, or eats it, AMC provides it.

The command's complex missions range from development of sophisticated weapon systems and cutting-edge research, to maintenance and distribution of spare parts.

AMC operates the Research, Development and Engineering Centers, Army Research Laboratory, depots, arsenals, ammunition plants, and other facilities, and maintains the Army's prepositioned stocks, both on land and afloat. The command is also the DoD Executive Agent for nuclear, chemical and biological defense.

To develop, buy and maintain materiel for the Army, AMC works closely with Program Executive Officers, the Army Acquisition Executive, industry and academia, the other services and other government agencies. The command's main effort is to achieve the development, support, and sustainment of the future Army while at the same time, supporting and sustaining the current Army. Its maintenance depots restore weapon systems needed as the Army makes its way to full transformation. The command's overhaul and modernization efforts are enhancing and upgrading major weapon systems - not just making them like new, but inserting technology to make them better and more reliable.

AMC handles diverse missions that reach far beyond the Army. For example, AMC manages the multi-billion dollar business of selling Army equipment and services to friends and allies of the United States and negotiates and implements agreements for co-production of U.S. weapons systems by foreign nations. AMC also provides numerous acquisition and logistics services to the other components of the Department of Defense and many other government agencies. AMC is headquartered at Ft. Belvoir, Va., and is located in about 149 locations worldwide, including more than 40 states and 38 countries. Manning these organizations is a work force of about 50,000 dedicated employees, both military and civilian, many with highly developed specialties in weapons development and logistics.

As the place in the Army where superior technology, acquisition support, and logistics are integrated to assure readiness for today and tomorrow, AMC is heavily involved in making the Army more responsive, deployable, agile, versatile, lethal, survivable and sustainable. From beans to bullets, helmets to helicopters, spare parts to spare ribs, AMC touches every Soldier in the Army every day.

ARMY MATERIEL COMMAND FIELD, ASSISTANCE IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ACTIVITY

Provides expert scientific and technical advisors to Army commanders in dealing with materiel matters. Arranges demonstrations and soldier evaluations of quick-reaction materiel solutions to problems defined by commanders and soldiers. A vital link between the real world of soldiering and the materiel development community, the activity also provides long- and short-term training and professional growth for AMC's scientists and engineers through direct interface with soldiers and their materiel problems.

ARMY SECURITY ASSISTANCE COMMAND

This U.S. Army Materiel Command major subordinate command is the Army's one-stop focal point for Security Assistance, a major element of U.S. foreign policy, which includes the sale, grant, loan or lease of U.S. defense articles and services to State Department-approved international partners and multinational organizations such as NATO and the UN. USASAC's main mission is Foreign Military Sales (FMS), a government-to-government program which engages the U.S. Army with the defense organizations of our allies and friendly nations. The Army's multibillion-dollar FMS effort includes planning, delivery and life-cycle support of equipment and training, negotiating the international coproduction of U.S. Army systems, and management of Army export licenses for the transfer of materiel and technology by U.S. firms to our international partners. USASAC also serves as prop nent for Army security assistance information management and financial policy, and provides logistics guidance to the Army Security Assistance community. Additionally, the command supports U.S. Government emergency assistance, humanitarian relief, antiterrorist and anti-drug campaigns, and operations other than war.

CCS AVIONICS DIRECTORATE, POWER/ENVIRONMENTAL DIVISION

Ensures complete acquisition and logistics support for the soldier in the field for assigned Level I, II or III generators, heaters and air conditioners, including their unique spare and repair parts. Support includes life-cycle maintenance engineering, integrated logistics support, provisioning and cataloging, integrated materiel management, worldwide distribution of materiel, production planning and acceptance, manufacturing base support, configuration management, Acquisitions Requirements Package development, product quality management and product acceptance.

CECOM BELVOIR LEGAL OFFICE

Provides comprehensive legal advice and counsel to the commander, Information Systems Software Center; the director, Night Vision Directorate; the director, Technical Applications Office, Fort Detrick, Md.; the project manager, Night Vision Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition; the project manager, Intelligence Fusion; the project manager, Mobile Electric Power; the project office, Counternarcotics Command and Management System; the project manager, Physical Security Equipment; the Humanitarian Countermine Group; the deputy project manager, Mines, Countermines and Demolitions; the Vint Hill Farms Station Base Realignment and Closure committee and all CECOM organizational elements at Fort Belvoir and within the National Capital Region.

Also, the Fort Belvoir branch provides intellectual property support, including patents and new invention disclosures, to the Night Vision Directorate and to the Department of Justice on patent infringement claims.

CECOM DIRECTORATE FOR SAFETY FIELD OFFICE

Office executes system safety engineering, health hazard, and environmental programs for life cycle management of systems developed, managed and supported by CECOM, PEO C3S and PEO IEW&S. This is done to ensure the development and implementation of controls, requirements and standards for potential safety hazards during the system life cycle, including the investigation of safety incidents and accidents. Ensures all objectives of the Department of Defense, Department of the Army, Army Materiel Command and federal regulations and requirements are implemented throughout the assigned system life cycle; provides system safety engineering direction and guidance to government and contractor design personnel in establishing safety requirements.

CECOM SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CENTER-BELVOIR

Center provides life-cycle software products and services that enhance Army/joint warfighting, management, and support capabilities, to ensure that America's warfighters continue to own the decisive edge from the battlespace through the sustaining base.

CENTER FOR ARMY ANALYSIS

Performs analytical studies for the Department of the Army. CAA studies support requirements of the chief of staff, heads of Army staff agencies and major Army commands for analysis in the areas of conceptual force design, planning, force structuring, materiel systems mix and evaluation, logistics support, methodology improvement, and Army operational and strategic plans and concepts of operations.