Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute
The Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI) is home to the Defense Department’s Medical Radiological Defense Research Program. Chartered in 1961 to study the biological effects of ionizing radiation, the Institute's mission today focuses on developmental and applied research leading to effective medical countermeasures against ionizing radiation. AFRRI works with government facilities, academic institutions and civilian laboratories in the U.S. and other countries to find ways of treating and managing radiation injuries.

Joint Task ForceNational Capital Region-Medical
The Defense Department established the Joint Task Force National Capital Region-Medical in 2007 to help navigate the integration and Base Realignment and Closure waters for Navy, Army and Air Force medical treatment facilities in the National Capital Region. The new command coordinates resources from military medical branches to ensure war casualties receive unparalleled health care. Doing so eliminates redundancies, enhance clinical care, promote health professions education and joint training and enhance military medical research opportunities. In addition to integrating medical resources between the Army, Navy, and Air Force in the region, the task force will also implement the Base Realignment and Closure changes, oversee much of the construction to begin at Bethesda, and develop an improved regional medical disaster response system. The command will be populated with approximately 150 military and civilian personnel and will be fully operational Sept. 30, 2008.

Naval Dosimetry Center
The Naval Dosimetry Center provides centralized radiation dosimetry processing and consultation services to over 300 naval commands by monitoring personnel occupationally exposed to ionizing radiation. The Center also maintains a computer registry that contains exposure histories of over 600,000 personnel exposed to naval radiation sources since 1947. In addition, the center maintains an In Vivo Gamma Spectroscopy facility for monitoring internal radioactivity in personnel. The center processes over 20,000 dosimeters per month, making it one of the largest dosimetry processors in the world.

Naval Medical Research Center
The Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) conducts scientific research on various diseases and operational problems in order to improve the health, safety and readiness of Navy and Marine Corps personnel. NMRC is the Navy’s largest biomedical research facility, an echelon-3 command with a staff of nearly 740 and has expanded to embrace many more disciplines of medical research in infectious diseases, bio-warfare defense and combat casualty care.

Navy Medicine MPT&E Command,Bethesda, Md.
The Navy Medicine Manpower, Personnel, Training and Education (MPT&E) Command supports the Navy’s priority of developing our 21st century leaders for Navy Medicine. In addition to the administrative and resources directorates, the command is organized into four major areas:

• Workforce Management - Executes personnel management strategies for end-strength, promotion, accession programs, school quotas, retention, and enlisted⁄officer bonuses for both active and reserve components.
• Transformation - Development⁄oversight of transformational tools including total force 5-Vector Models (5VM), Integrated Learning Environment (ILE) and Knowledge Management (KM).
• Functional Integration - Window or ‘‘portal of entry” for all MPT&E issues, such as requirements for training, lessons learned, changed or new policy coming into the command and the exiting portal for appropriate resolution. Human Performance (HP) will provide expertise in assessment, science of learning, event investigation and root cause analysis, and metric development.
• Workforce Development - Executes oversight of the day to day activities associated with development of our workforce including curriculum management, development of reusable learning objects, course redesign, accreditation and certification requirements, and management of graduate medical department education.

The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU)
Established by Congress in 1972, and graduating its first class in 1980, the University is the nation’s federal school of medicine and graduate school of nursing. USU enjoys a worldwide reputation as a Center of Excellence for military medical education, research and consultation programs that relate directly to military medicine: tropical diseases, disaster medicine, readiness and adaptation to extreme environments. USU was awarded theDefense Department Joint Meritorious Unit Award in 2000 for its significant accomplishments over the last decade.

School of Medicine andGraduate School of Nursing
The F. Edward HÈbert School of Medicine is in the top 25 percent (class size) of accredited American medical schools and has a year-round, four-year curriculum. This curriculum is nearly 700 hours - or about 20 weeks - longer than that of other U.S. medical schools. These extra hours focus on epidemiology, health promotion, disease prevention, tropical medicine, leadership and field exercises and other subjects that relate to the unique requirements of career-oriented military physicians. Of the 3,585 physician alumni, over 90 percent currently serve on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces and Public Health Service. Graduate degrees in the biomedical sciences and public health are awarded by the School of Medicine.

Personnel Support Detachment
The Personnel Support Activity Detachment (PSD) at NNMC provides one-stop pay, personnel and passenger transportation support to approximately 4,300 active duty and 1,100 reserve military personnel assigned to NNMC, as well as 100 tenant and area commands in the D.C. metropolitan area and northeastern U.S. Support is also provided to family members of assigned military personnel, military retirees in the mid-Atlantic region, and passenger transportation to Navy Department civilians. Visit www.psalant.navy.mil to schedule identification orcommon access card appointments or provide customerfeedback.

Visual Information Directorate
The Visual Information Directorate plans,controls, manages and executes all aspects ofVisual Information, Audiovisual Production, Medical Graphic Arts, Medical Photography and Video Teleconferencing in support ofthe Navy's medical and dental imagingrequirements.