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Appendix AA-26. TC AIMS II. TC AIMS II is the Army’s unit deployment and theater operations (movement control)automated system. It provides critical planning data to JOPES and execution data to the GlobalTransportation Network. It facilitates provision of ITV and TAV using the RF AIT Server and tags. Itprovides planning data for units during deployment and visibility of cargo and passenger movement duringexecution. Provides an integrated information and data source for transportation activities duringdeployment, sustainment, and redeployment/retrograde operations. Complies with the DefenseTransportation Regulation and employs DOD and Service shipment policies and procedures in peace andwar for active and reserve forces. It automates origin shipping/receiving and deployment; sustainment andredeployment/retrograde processes; produces movement documentation and unit move data; and furnishestimely information. The system uses AIT in order to mark unit equipment for tracking during deployments.When the theater operations capability is used it automates the Transportation Movement Request, convoyclearance operations, and tasking of common use land transport.A-27. CMOS. CMOS is being fielded to IMCOM and the Installation Transportation Office to supportinbound and outbound freight operations. It will further the installation functions of ordering transportation,documenting the event, and providing for automated payments to commercial carriers. It will also be fieldedto units that operate consolidated shipping and receiving points (CRSP) or similar cross dock operations in adeployed environment to facilitate receipt, sort, and ship functions in conjunction with the theater movementcontrol procedures.A-28. Combat Service Support (CSS) Automated Information Systems Interface (CAISI). Providescommercial and tactical network connections for sustainment Standard Army Management InformationSystem (STAMIS), along with emerging systems. Users can be provided from a variety of locations ingarrison or on the battlefield; ranging from the BCT and Brigade Support Areas to the fixed facilities withinthe tactical theater. The CAISI Client Module connects up to seven computers to wireless local area network(WLAN). The Bridge Module connects up to 14 computers to the WLAN. Data, voice, and mediatransmissions are extended beyond line-of-sight when CAISI is connected to sustainment SatelliteCommunications usually provided by sustainment Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT). The VSATconnectivity provides the CAIS WLAN users with access to the Non-secure Internet Protocol RouterNetwork (NIPRNET) and Army/Defense Knowledge Online (AKO/DKO).A-29. The Installation Support Module Central Issue Facility (ISM CIF). This system is required tomanage personnel clothing issue records. It is a system that tracks all organizational Clothing andIndividual Equipment (OCIE) issued by the Army to everyone in theater and allows the Army to ascertainthe status of OCIE issued to units and individuals. All issues of OCIE from Central Issue Facilities (CIF)throughout the Army are captured on this system. During operations there will be fielding and exchangerequirements of these items. Those transactions must be tracked on ISM CIF and supported in operations.All Soldiers in theater that have OCIE issued from a CIF in theater elsewhere must have a clothing record inISM CIF and this must be updated as changes to those issues are made.HEALTH MANAGEMENT SYSTEMSA-30. Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4) is the Army’s medical informationsystem. As the Army component of the deployed Defense Health Information Management System(DHIMS), MC4 will provide the hardware infrastructure for the DHIMS medical functionality software, aswell as software required to ensure MC4/DHIMS interoperability with Army C2 and sustainment systemsand provide reachback to the sustainment base. The MC4/DHIMS systems will rely on Armycommunications systems for transmission of health care information.A-31. The DHIMS applications are built upon the functional, technical, and operational perspectives oftheater and clinical medical professionals and will provide electronic health record in theater. DHIMSprovides an integrated suite of software to support the military’s deployed medical business practice. Thetheater family of systems supports complete clinical care documentation, medical supply and equipmenttracking, patient movement visibility, and health surveillance in austere communications environments. Adescription of the theater DHIMS systems are described below.A-6 FM 4-0 30 April 2009