Our Leaders
Col. Owen L. Roberts, II
PROGRAM MANAGER
Ms. Christine M. Parker
DEPUTY PROGRAM MANAGER
About OPMED
We equip medical providers across the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Special Forces with cutting-edge tools and technologies to deliver lifesaving and life-prolonging care at the point of injury. By collaborating with stakeholders across the DOD, academia, and industry, OPMED ensures the American Joint Force is prepared to fight and win in any environment, including the demanding conditions of the Indo-Pacific and Arctic regions. We remain dedicated to advancing battlefield medicine, directly contributing to the DOD's core missions of warfighting, lethality, and readiness.
Warfighter Support and Development Missions
We develop, produce, and sustain medical capabilities to optimize Warfighter readiness, lethality, and performance. Our programs help to prevent, detect, manage, and treat neurotrauma, fatigue, and psychological health conditions in service members.
Force Health Protection
FHP works with combatant commands and regulatory experts to rapidly provide a treatment, diagnostic, or preventive medical countermeasure against high-consequence threats when Food and Drug Administration-approved products are not available.
Tech Transfer
Have a product in development? OPMED works with industry collaborators, academia, and other government partners to plan for the next generation of military medical development. We prepare and manage documents for Cooperative Research and Development Agreements and other partnerships.
Enterprise Information Technology
EIT develops and manages the full life cycle of medical Information Technology solutions for the DHA – from provisioning, through operations, to retirement – in compliance with DOD, DHA, and FDA policies and regulations.
Warfighter-Focused Project Management Offices
Warfighter Readiness, Performance, and Brain Health
The WRPBH PMO focuses on the development of medical capabilities that optimize Warfighter readiness and performance, and aid in the prevention, detection, management, and treatment of neurotrauma, fatigue, and psychological health conditions.
Warfighter Protection and Acute Care
The WPAC PMO develops medical solutions for the Warfighter, to include preventive treatments, drugs, diagnostics, hemorrhage control, resuscitation, and battlefield pain management.
Warfighter Expeditionary Medicine and Treatment
The WEMT PMO is working on new and improved medical products and devices to give our service members better medical care in the field, including solutions for burn treatment and skin repair, sterilization, noncompressible hemorrhage control, medical monitoring, and portable oxygen and imaging systems.
OPMED News
Tech transfer team highlights capabilities during DOD's health symposium in Florida
ORTA, part of Operational Medical Systems within the Defense Health Agency, plays a crucial role in expediting official partnerships that bring lifesaving medical innovations from concept to battlefield application.
Brain health, readiness team highlights capabilities during DOD’s health symposium in Florida
MHSRS is a premier opportunity for WRPBH, part of the Defense Health Agency’s Operational Medical Systems Program Management Office, to showcase its current portfolio of medical products, devices, and treatments for a wide array of DOD, development industry, and academic stakeholders.
Force Health Protection’s worldwide mission in focus during DOD’s health symposium
The four-day symposium is a premier opportunity for OPMED to showcase its current capabilities for a wide array of defense, development industry, and academic stakeholders.
OPMED: Spurring innovation to deliver Joint Force medical solutions
Check out this Q&A with our Program Manager, Col. Owen L. Roberts.
OPMED team joins DOD, industry leaders for military health symposium
During the MHSRS event, OPMED experts will showcase the medical solutions they are developing through partnerships and agreements with DOD and private sector organizations.
OPMED team recognized for outstanding program management of key blood product
The award for Outstanding Program Management (Team) was announced August 4th, 2025 during the annual Military Health System Research Symposium in Kissimmee, Florida.