Who We Are
AQM: Acquisitions Management
- Provides acquisition and assistance services for domestic operations and overseas posts
- Five divisions in Washington & two Regional Procurement Support Offices
- RPSOs are located in Frankfurt, Germany and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
- $2.5 billion in annual contract actions for goods & services
- $300 million in annual assistance/grants
OPS: Logistics Operations
- Arrange for travel, transportation, & warehousing for employees and families
- Packing and shipping of household effects, including personally owned vehicles
- Storing of household effects in Hagerstown and at commercial facilities nationwide
- Despatch Agents in Baltimore, Brownsville, Dulles, Miami, New York, & Seattle
- European Logistics Support Office (ELSO) in Antwerp, Belgium
- Storage and transshipment for posts in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
- Manage forward-deployed supply system via the Expedited Logistics Program with RPSO
- Yearly totals include 30,000 shipments, 26 million pounds of household effects in storage, 50,000 travel transactions arranged through the AMEX Travel Management Center, & 5,500 receipts & 4,000 lines of inventory in secure warehouses
- Manage the purchase & inventory of overseas motor vehicles
- 6,300 vehicles in overseas inventory
PMP: Program Management and Policy
- Develop and deploy logistics systems
- Manage the diplomatic pouch and mail systems
- Accompanied and unaccompanied pouches between Washington and posts
- 184,000 pouches and 8 million pounds of materials sent annually from Washington
- Average transit time to posts overseas: less than 3 days
- Domestic mail services for the Department's Washington offices
- Develop and maintain logistics policy
- Provide professional development & training opportunities for A/LM & the worldwide logistics and GSO community
- Provide operational support to over 1100 purchase-card holders worldwide
- Manage the Department's property management program
- Worldwide oversight, training, and support for posts and domestic bureaus
- Domestic excess property management
- Coordinate strategic planning and performance management for A/LM
- Manage the diplomatic pouch and mail systems
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