Fort Knox | The Armor Center
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.
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