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Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command is an LCMC. Thus it has an associated contracting center. This LCMC Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command was formerly Aviation and Missile Command (1997). This LCMC "purchases about $ 1 billion worth of aircraft and missile
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AMCOM works closely with The U.S. Army Combat
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