United States Army Aviation and Missile Command

In 2019, the command's budget was $3.7 billion, and it maintained a global workforce of 15,000 military and civilian employees. which operates simulation facilities to evaluate missile components, such as seekers, in a variety of flight environments. AMCOM also has access to several wind tunnels to test full-size helicopters, a vertical motion simulator for flight control evaluation and a crash-testing tower used to improve safety. ==History==

In October 1948, the Chief of Ordnance designated Redstone Arsenal as the center for ordnance research and development in the field of rockets. The Chief of Ordnance officially activated the arsenal on 1 June 1949, becoming the site of the Ordnance Rocket Center. On 28 October 1949, the Secretary of the Army approved the transfer of the Ordnance Research and Development Division Sub-Office (Rocket) at Fort Bliss, Texas, to Redstone Arsenal, becoming the Ordnance Guided Missile Center. From July to October 1958, ABMA's scientific and engineering staff (including Wernher von Braun and the Saturn I team at Redstone Arsenal) were moved to the newly created NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, located at the southern half of Redstone Arsenal. Nearly all of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, were transferred to NASA, eliminating the prospect of an Army space program. On 3 December 1958, the JPL transferred from AOMC to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). On 1 October 1959, the Transportation Supply and Maintenance Command (TSMC) was redesignated Transportation Materiel Command (TMC). == Organization ==

AMCOM's main organizations are organized into centers: • Acquisition Center – responsible for contracting support. • AMCOM Logistics Center (ALC) – responsible for logistics support. The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command is a LCMC. Thus it has an associated contracting center. This LCMC, Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command, was formerly Aviation and Missile Command. This LCMC purchases about $1 billion worth of aircraft and missile parts each year. ==List of commanding generals==