Although the URL still shows this as the PS Magazine website, it has been repurposed to overview the various mission sets for which ASCRAD is responsible. Moving forward, please use the following URL: https://www.ascrad.army.mil/ (it will still resolve to the psmag URL for a period of time).

[With the end of the PS Magazine mission, no new content is being created. However, access to its digital archives will remain for the foreseeable future.]

 

ASC RAD Mission

Provide mission command of four (4) operational activities located at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. Each activity is unique in the Army and mission-aligned to a parent Support Operations (SPO) directorate at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois.

• Army Airlift Clearance Authority (AACA) – Improve the velocity of readiness drivers moving through the supply chain, while ensuring the  prudent use of scarce transportation resources (SDT Fund) (mission-aligned to Supply Chain Operations Directorate)
   
• Army Oil Analysis Program (AOAP) - Increase combat readiness and decrease life-cycle sustainment costs across the Army by  monitoring and assessing the condition of critical weapon systems (mission-aligned to Materiel Readiness Directorate)
   
• Production Support Division (PSD) – sustains and supports Army DoDAAC/ UIC for  Logistics Readiness by ensuring the existence and  effectiveness of Army force element structures in Army Enterprise Systems. (mission-aligned to Supply Chain Operations  Directorate)
   
• Stockage Determination Division (SDD) – Create from a single, standardized and data driven approach Authorized Stockage Lists  (ASL) for all Tactical and Logistics Readiness Centers (LRC) Supply Support Activities (SSA) throughout the Army to sustain  readiness (mission-aligned to Supply Chain Operations Directorate)