Army Materiel Command Mission Statement

The U.S. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity (AMSAA) was founded in 1968 when the U.S. Army Materiel Command (AMC) reorganized and separated its Ballistic Research Laboratory’s Weapons System Laboratory into two units: : the Aberdeen Research and Development Center (now the Army Research Laboratory) and AMSAA. Born out of AMC’s requirement for a systems analysis capability, AMSAA has informed and impacted Army decisions through independent operations research analysis for a half century.
AMSAA’s impact over the past 50 years exceeds expectations for a workforce of its size. AMSAA has fluctuated between 250 to 500 employees over the last 50 years, with a current strength of ~300 analysts and engineers. AMSAA’s first mission statement

JMEMs are the single authoritative source of munitions effectiveness data used throughout the DoD. JMEMs were used to plan strikes during the Vietnam War, Operation Desert Storm, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Odyssey Dawn, and Operation Inherent Resolve, and remain mission-critical to today’s ongoing operations.
• 1975-1997: Performed the independent developmental test and evaluation for almost every ACAT I and II Army weapon system.
• 1983-present: Deploys analysts to the field in order to provide weapon system data and analysis. The first time AMSAA deployed an analyst was to support the Army’s Ammunition Stockpile Reliability Program in 1983; this program was established to study ammunition failures induced by shipment and transportation. Since then, AMSAA has been supporting units with on-site operations research analysis in Germany, Vietnam, Kosovo, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, and Afghanistan.
• 1988-present: Progressively designated in Army Regulation 70-1, Army Acquisition Policy, as the Army’s: 1) responsible agency for item and system level performance data and certification (1988); 2) the Army’s independent logistician, responsible for evaluating the adequacy of integrated

Most importantly, AMSAA’s efforts have protected our Soldiers in harm’s way and enabled the safe return of countless Warfighters. Looking back over the last 50 years, there can be no question whether AMSAA has driven analytical success at every facet of the Army’s acquisition process. The paramount and critical mission AMSAA has undertaken is one of an ever-changing technological purview – the constant being the expert operations research analysts and engineers at AMSAA. The Army and AMSAA bring together a wide array of experiences and backgrounds. The employees at AMSAA have served and will continue to serve a common goal: to conduct unbiased, transparent, and inclusive analysis, to the best of their ability to fulfill the mission of operationalizing Warfighters. AMSAA analysts assist acquisition professionals with materiel requirements ranging from assessing item-level systems during requirement documents reviews to assisting in drafting or revising those documents. AMSAA is instrumental in developing and retaining the Army’s full decision-support potential of the logistics enterprise by ensuring data and business intelligence tools are complemented by the operations research capabilities needed to conduct modern analytics, thereby integrating analytics into organizational