Operations Directorate

Functions

• Represent the Director, Commandant; TRADOC, and DA G4 on issues involving subsistence management and feeding in both garrison and field environments.
• Serve as DA food adviser for the Reserve Components.
• Army lead for operational rations and nutrition. Serves as veterinary sciences technical advisor and the environmental health sciences technical advisor to DA G4 and the QMS.
• Develop DA publication of all regulations and doctrine governing the Army Food Service Program. Provides automated Class I system reports and Army feeding data to DA G4. Develops Army Prototype Performance Work Statement for garrison dining facility contracting.
• Develops Military Construction, Army (MCA), renovation and décor projects and budget for Army installation dining facilities. Serve as Army lead for equipment supporting garrison and field food service operations.
• Provides the Army oversight for the Army Food Service Program. Evaluate, train and report food service operational findings and develop and coordinate with ACES Division.
• Administer the Army G4 Philip A. Connelly Award Program recognizing excellence in field and garrison operations.
• Advises the Army representative/voting member on joint service committees. Provides link between HQDA ODCSLOG, MACOMs, Installations, and the food industry.
• Researches, develops, coordinates input from Army and other service organizations, proposes doctrine, policy and regulatory procedures to meet changing peace and wartime requirements.