text: Appendix D
  Army Sustainment Information Systems
  This appendix discusses information systems in two contexts. First, it covers automated
  information systems that specifically support sustainment functions. It then discusses how
  sustainment information systems are integrated in the overall command and control system.
  ATP 4-0.6 has additional information on sustainment information systems.
  ARMY SUSTAINMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
  D-1. Army sustainment information systems provide commanders and staffs situational understanding—
  building the COP and improving the quality and effectiveness of Army readiness by enhancing the decision
  support process. Sustainment information systems receive, house, and present the data that becomes
  information used by unit leaders to build and maintain combat power to ensure mission success for the
  warfighter. Current sustainment information systems include the Aircraft Notebook; Standard Army
  Ammunition System; Transportation Coordinator’s Automated Information for Movement System II; Army
  Food Management Information System; Test, Measurement, and Diagnostic Equipment Management
  Information System; and a host of HR systems. Even though some of these non-enterprise resource planning
  legacy systems are web-based, they do not leverage the integrated efficiencies of enterprise resource planning
  systems. Army sustainment enterprise resource planning systems include Global Combat Support System-
  Army (GCSS-Army) with its hubs, Army Enterprise Systems Integration Program, Integrated Personnel and
  Pay System-Army, General Fund Enterprise Business System, and Logistics Modernization Program (LMP).
  As the Army continues its transition to Enterprise Business Systems-Convergence, the advantages accruing
  to the supported commander as identified in chapter 1 will continue to grow. This section lays out current
  systems and those coming online in the short term.
  GLOBAL COMBAT SUPPORT SYSTEM-ARMY
  D-2. GCSS-Army subsumed multiple legacy Standard Army Management Information Systems to combine
  ground maintenance, unit supply, property management, warehouse management, and finance into an
  enterprise resource planning system. As such, it is the principal system for logisticians to achieve readiness
  and support operations across multiple domains. Having a consolidated, integrated database for those
  functions gives both sustainers and supported commanders up-to-date visibility of the resources that can be
  used to weight the operation. GCSS-Army uses a commercial off-the-shelf system run on system applications
  and products-based software. GCSS-Army meets congressionally mandated auditability requirements and
  provides the logistician with total tactical-level supply chain and equipment health visibility. The product has
  been fully fielded but continues to add improved functionality to the baseline. Recent improvements include
  the integration of Class VIII for requisition and medical sets, kits, and outfits component-level materiel
  management. Sustainment automation support management offices provide tactical support to GCSS-Army
  systems.
  AVIATION LOGISTICS INFORMATION SYSTEM
  D-3. The Aircraft Notebook platform provides a single point access to the maintainer at the aircraft in the
  form of software applications necessary for completing and recording maintenance activities on United States
  Army aircraft. The Aircraft Notebook’s interface applications provide an electronic, automated, and fully
  integrated solution for maintainers to record and report maintenance activities. The Platform Maintenance
  Application implements the requirements of DA Pam 738-751 and readiness reporting in accordance with
  AR 700-138. The Platform Maintenance Application implements controls that comply with TM 1-1500-328-
  23 and support the tasked-based and conditions-based maintenance processes. The Platform Maintenance
  Application gathers requirements for the platform project manager offices and implements needed interfaces
  with numerous Army information systems such as platform ground station software, the Centralized Aircrew
  Flight Records System, Maintenance Consolidated Database System, and Enterprise Material Status
  Reporting, providing a family of systems synchronization. The Aircraft Notebook software will also be the
  bridging software for the GCSS-Army.