But the site traces its history to the early 1960s, when a company called Bowen-McLaughlin York (BMY) built a plant there because it was roughly equidistant between the two Army commands involved in buying combat vehicles.

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Right now, PROMIS is used by fifteen Navy commands and a single Army command.

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Schoomaker now commands the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

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Its long-delayed program to replace aging air fleets was in disarray, its senior officers had been largely excluded from joint commands, and its influence with political leaders had been eclipsed by the Army and Navy.

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