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
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.
Technology 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
Warfighter Readiness, Performance, and Brain Health
WRPBH 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
WPAC develops medical solutions for the Joint Force, including preventive treatments, drugs, diagnostics, hemorrhage control, and battlefield pain management, to fill high-priority capability gaps for military medical providers.
Warfighter Expeditionary Medicine and Treatment
WEMT works 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
Find out how OPMED develops and delivers innovative, high-quality medical products to protect, treat, and sustain deployed Joint forces, directly contributing to enhanced warfighter lethality and readiness.
