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Purpose: In accordance with the authority in DoD Directive (DoDD) 5124.02, this issuance:

• Establishes policy and assigns responsibilities to form and maintain a DoD capability that supports a full range of medical modeling and simulation (MM&S) for planning, decision-making, and education and training programs through Military Health System (MHS) requirement development and approval to achieve MHS standardized MM&S solution sets.

• Establishes the Defense Medical Modeling and Simulation Office (DMMSO).

• Develop a Medical Modeling and Simulation Requirements Management (MM&SRM) System.

APPLICABILITY. This issuance applies to OSD, the Military Departments, the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) and the Joint Staff, the Combatant Commands (CCMDs), the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Defense, the Defense Agencies, the DoD Field Activities, and all other organizational entities within the DoD (referred to collectively in this issuance as the "DoD Components").