Financial Specialist (The U.S. Army Medical Research Development Command)
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About The Position
The U.S. Army Medical Research Development Command (USAMRDC) manages and executes research in five basic areas: combat casualty care, military infectious diseases, military operational medicine, and chemical biological defense. The USAMRDC is program coordinator for DoD medical research programs focused on the prevention, mitigation and treatment of blast injuries as well as the manager for the Joint Trauma Analysis and Prevention of Injury in Combat program which informs solutions that prevent or mitigate injury during the full range of military operations, by collaborative collection, integration, analysis and storage of data from operations, intelligence, materiel and medical sources. Six medical research laboratory commands execute the science and technology program to investigate medical solutions for the battlefield. USAMRDC also manages a large extramural research program with numerous contracts, grants, and cooperative research and development agreements to provide additional science and technology capabilities from leading academic, private industry, and other government organizations. The Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Defense Coordinating Office (DCO) assists the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Joint Science and Technology Office for Chemical Biological Defense (JSTO-CBD) in the planning and execution of science and technology funding at USAMRDC laboratories, including funding for chemical and biological defense pretreatments and prophylaxes, therapeutics, diagnostics, basic research and supporting science and technologies, and infrastructure and core capabilities. The CBRN DCO will coordinate with various offices to plan, program, and budget an integrated research program within the DHP RDTE appropriations and conduct activities in coordination with the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs (ASD(HA)), Chemical Biological Defense Program (CBDP), and others. The scope of this contract is to provide all necessary personnel required to provide services in the areas of administrative management, scientific analysis, technical and financial management in support of USAMRDC and the CBRN DCO.
