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ATSC History

The cornerstone of the Army's training support management structure, the U.S. Army Training Support Center (ATSC), is a field operating activity of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). Established on 1 July 1976, ATSC is located at Fort Eustis, VA. Its mission is to plan, integrate, implement, and sustain many of the training support programs, products, services, and facilities that support training across all domains, TRADOC’s core missions, and the Army.

At its inception, ATSC employed approximately 75 people and was the former Training Support Activity that managed television and motion picture programs, in-house development and production of training devices, and computerized training support. The activities added in July 1976 included the Armywide Doctrinal and Training Literature Program, Training Extension Course Program, Individual Training Evaluation Program, Army Correspondence Course Program, engagement simulation, and training devices requirements. In the fall of 1976, ATSC expanded to 440 personnel.

Today, ATSC employs about 400 military, civilian, and contracted personnel who are critical to ensure Soldiers have the essential training support products and services they need. These products and services enable training necessary to develop agile, adaptive warriors, comfortable with uncertainty and able to operate in an expeditionary environment. ATSC’s workforce is charged with duties such as the design, development, acquisition, production, reproduction, distribution, maintenance, and accountability of training products and materials, training scheduling, and student record maintenance for Army individual and unit training.

We work closely with Headquarters Department of the Army (HQDA), HQ TRADOC, 33 TRADOC centers and schools, and installations worldwide to provide the Army training community with a wide variety of training support products and services.

Over the last decade, ATSC has been instrumental in establishing and managing the Army Training Support System (TSS) that accommodates the
full spectrum of training requirements. The TSS is a system of systems that provides the capabilities necessary to enable an operationally relevant
training environment for warfighters. It represents a way to migrate training support from its current state to a fully integrated, interoperable training
support enterprise across all training domains.

Our ability to manage and sustain the TSS and its many superior training support programs, products, and services make us uniquely qualified to
support our nation at war with exceptional training support anytime, anywhere.