Mission
The mission of the Redstone Arsenal Detachment is to provide mission command of six operational activities located at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. Five of these activities transferred from the former Logistics Support Activity (LOGSA, now LDAC) to ASC on 1 October 2018. The sixth activity, the Production Support Branch, transferred on 1 October 2020. Each activity is mission-aligned to a parent directorate within the ASC Support Operations Directorate (SPO) at Rock Island Arsenal.
Army Airlift Clearance Authority
The Army Airlift Clearance Authority’s (AACA’s) mission is to improve the velocity of readiness drivers moving through the supply chain—in other words, it moves Army cargo as rapidly as possible using the most appropriate and cost-effective transportation. Given that air cargo costs more than surface cargo, AACA is responsible for determining which mode best meets mission requirements and priorities and prudently selects the most cost-effective. The AACA is a bridge between the transportation and supply communities. It provides airlift of mission-essential cargo, diverts non-mission- essential cargo to surface, clears and advances cargo into the Defense Transportation System (DTS), manages Greensheet/Purplesheet requests, and validates and requests special airlift assignment missions (SAAMs). The Port Liaison at Dover AFB serves an integral role in resolving frustrated cargo at Air Force aerial ports.
The AACA utilizes monthly and annual cost avoidance reports to validate and control all Army-sponsored air-eligible cargo. These cost avoidance reports provide transportation data analysis, which aids in developing and updating the business rules that govern cargo flow. The reports also allow for visibility of monthly Class IX clearance totals. The AACA offers additional benefits such as upgrading transportation priorities and training and advising ITOs on clearance processes. Typically, within a fiscal year, AACA saves the Army tens of millions of dollars in cost avoidance by ensuring only the highest-priority cargo is airlifted.
Army Oil Analysis Program
The Army Oil Analysis Program (AOAP) is an Army G-4 Core Logistics maintenance function and a critical component of the Army’s prognostic and predictive maintenance strategy. The objectives of the AOAP are to improve operational readiness of Army weapon systems, enhance safety, detect impending component failures, and conserve Class III & IX resources through application of the on condition oil change (OCOC) policy.
AOAP laboratories detect a wide variety of failure modes in engines, transmissions, gear boxes, and hydraulic systems at their onset, such as contaminated, degraded, and incorrect lubricants, bearing wear, gear wear, air induction leaks, fuel leaks, coolant leaks, internal corrosion, etc., and issue actionable maintenance recommendations to Army maintainers.
Regional AOAP laboratories are located at Fort Bragg, NC; Fort Hood, TX; Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA; Camp Arifjan, Kuwait; Camp Humphreys, Korea; Kaiserslautern Army Depot, Germany; and a mobile laboratory currently located at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. In addition, quality assurance laboratories are located at each Army Depot; Anniston, AL; Corpus Christi, TX; and Red River, TX.
Production Support Division
The Production Support Division (PSD) sustains, supports and maintains the creation, changes to and retirement of Army and Army contractor Department of Defense Activity Address Codes (DoDAACs) and Routing Identifier Codes (RICs), across all components, in the Army Enterprise System Integration Program (AESIP) and the Global Combat Support System-Army (GCSS-A). It does this by ensuring the existence and effectiveness of Army Force Element Structures in these enterprise systems. Force Element (FE) structures reflect how units are task organized by echelon/hierarchy. By properly associating DoDAACs and FEs, the PSB enables units to operate their logistic functions (property accounting, maintenance and unit supply), as well as report on these functions.
In addition, the PSD is the master data manager and maintainer for the GCSS-A Intermediate Document (IDoc) error types relating to purchase order responses (ORDRSP) and shipment delivery notifications (DESADV). It also maintains several other data points in AESIP and GCSS-A, to include: project code updates, property book identification (PBID) for equipment reporting, force activity designator (FAD) assignments, installation activity code assignments and automatic return item listings (ARILs).
Stockage Determination Branch
The Stockage Determination Branch (SDB) is the Army’s singular source for developing and implementing authorized stockage lists (ASLs)/Common Shop Stock Lists (CSSL), which directly support unit and fleet readiness across the Army. Using a standardized, data-driven approach, in conjunction with approved business rules, it generates and updates ASLs for all tactical units, logistics readiness centers (LRCs), and supply support activities (SSAs), along with CSSLs, throughout the Army.
SDB is the only team with the enduring mission of performing stockage determination for all retail level US Army Materiel Command (AMC) supply activities, affecting the placement of Army Working Capital Fund (AWCF) repair parts inventory.
SDB provides innovative, measurable ASL performance improvement options. The resulting ASL products ensure the warfighter has the right stocks available to improve ASL combat performance.
The vision of the SDB is to continue to provide Army Sustainment Command (ASC) with capabilities to more efficiently and effectively drive the support of the AMC commanding general’s priorities and focused efforts to sustain and enhance Army readiness.