JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas –
The Defense Health Agency’s Program Executive Office-Operational Medicine (Provisional) team visited the Naval Medical Research Unit San Antonio and the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston on Jan. 14, 2025, to speak on recent DHA alignments and reorganization, and to establish relationships and understanding of research currently being conducted at the Army and Navy laboratories in San Antonio.
NAMRU San Antonio's mission is to conduct gap driven combat casualty care, craniofacial, and directed energy research to improve survival, operational readiness, and safety of Department of Defense personnel engaged in routine and expeditionary operations.
It is one of the leading research and development laboratories for the U.S. Navy under the DOD and is one of eight subordinate research commands in the global network of laboratories operating under the Naval Medical Research Command in Silver Spring, Maryland.