The Office of the Chief of Armor serves as the personnel proponency
office for the Armor Branch and is the executive agent for armor personnel
issues and initiatives. OCOA supports the commanding general's
role as the chief of armor by representing the branch at personnel meetings
and conferences, and by coordinating armor personnel issues with
higher headquarters. The focus of the organization is on maintaining
worldwide armor branch personnel through training, leader development,
assignment and retention of Armor Soldiers.OCOA is a proponent
for the Excellence in Armor program and monitors the armor portion of
the U.S. Army Regimental System and the Draper Leadership Award.
The Quality Assurance Office performs a quality assurance function
for the USAARMC Commanding General by conducting internal and
external evaluations, assisting the training organizations with a selfassessment
in preparation for meeting TRADOC accreditation standards
and by accrediting the seven Army School
System armor battalions and their functionally-
aligned training sites. The QAO is staffed with a director, instructional systems specialists who serve
as Assessment and Accreditation Team chiefs along with a Senior Title XI,
Title XI NCOs and a training specialist. The Staff and Faculty and Automated
Instructional Management System-Personal Computer office is
also aligned under the QAO. The primary function of the Staff and
Faculty is to manage the USAARMC Instructor Professional Development
Program. S & F is staffed with a team of instructional systems specialists
and NCOs. The AIMS-PC is staffed with a functional administrator and
site manager of the AIMS-PC program at Fort Knox.
The primary objective of the Directorate of Training Doctrine and
Combat Development (DTDCD) is support of unit training, rather
than individual training at the Armor Center. DTDCD is also responsible
for leading the U.S. Army in all armor/cavalry doctrine and training
development. It also maintains the responsibility of managing the
Force XXI training program and integrating its products into
Warfighter XXI. In addition to the training mission, DTDCD publishes
Armor Magazine, a professional development bulletin for the Armor
Force. The organization includes a Headquarters Section, Doctrine
Division, Training Development Division, Force XXI Training Program
and Armor Magazine.
The TRADOC System Manager for the Abrams Tank System conducts total system management for
the Abrams M1, M1A1, M1A2 and M1A2 System Enhancement Package.TSM Abrams ensures that the
Army's total system efforts are developed and fully integrated early and continuously throughout the development, production, fielding and employment
of the assigned systems.