The U.S. Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity is the Army’s Center for Systems Analysis.  Part of the Army Materiel Command’s Research, Development and Engineering Command, AMSAA’s mission is to conduct responsive and effective materiel and logistics systems analyses to support decision making for equipping and sustaining the U.S. Army. AMSAA supports the Army by conducting systems and engineering analyses to support decisions in technology, materiel acquisitions, and the designing, developing, and sustaining of Army weapon systems.

AMSAA’s goal is to provide Soldiers with the best Army materiel possible. AMSAA is committed to giving the Soldier the decisive capability to win across the spectrum of current and future military operations. AMSAA’s performance, combat effectiveness, logistics, and industrial base analyses are used by the U.S. Army and the Department of Defense to address the capabilities and needs of conceptual, developmental, and existing Army systems. The results of our analyses are used to make informed decisions concerning the acquisition, procurement, and support of the Army’s forces.

AMSAA’s core functions are:

• Conducting materiel system performance and effectiveness analyses, risk analyses, trade-off analyses, and requirements analyses of Army systems for AMC, the Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), Battle Labs, the Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC), HQ, Department of Army (HQDA), and the Department of Defense.

• Developing, certifying, and maintaining performance and effectiveness data for armor, infantry, mine warfare, artillery, aviation, air defense, and C4ISR systems to support major Army and DoD program analyses and initiatives.

• Developing and maintaining methodologies, models, and simulations to support performance and effectiveness analyses of Army commodities.

• Conducting analyses in the areas of wholesale and retail logistics systems, primarily addressing supply, maintenance, and reliability issues.

• Supporting AMC, program managers, and other Army organizations in the conduct of resource analyses and cost/benefit studies to include cost versus performance/effectiveness trade-off analyses for Army weapons systems.

• Providing automation and analyses of the Army’s industrial base information.
  
  
• Exercising overall program direction for the execution of the AMC management and engineering program to include the workload-based staffing and analysis program (WBSAP) and commercial activity initiatives. 

AMSAA’s headquarters are located in Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, with additional offices in Rock Island Arsenal, IL; Redstone Arsenal, AL; and Letterkenny Army Depot in Chambersburg, PA.
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