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.