- Serves as a central management location for item and program-managed wholesale stocks and assets; receives, records, classifies, stores, maintains, sustains and ships material on owners' direction; total visibility of assets and materials to determine disposition and analyze future requirements. - Modern organic transportation network, capable of supporting all military and commercial aircraft, rail and trucks able to respond immediately to all requirements worldwide. - Preservation and packaging prototyping. - The Army's largest dedicated retrograde facility for equipment and material returning from units and theater; performs logistics management on a majority of the agency's non-Army managed items, Army-managed items, and returned Class IX equipment for reutilization and redistribution with guidance from item and program managers. - Manages a majority of the Army's retrograded Nonstandard Equipment (NSE); receives, identifies, classifies, inventories, stores, secures, inspects, packages and ships worldwide. - Receives, identifies, classifies, inventories, stores, secures, inspects, packages and ships worldwide, a large volume of the Army's OCIE items. - Manages excess Class VII major end items in its combat vehicle and equipment End-of-First Life Center; more than 20,000 combat vehicles and equipment items stored for item managers; receives, identifies, classifies, inventories, stores, secures and ships assets; performs controlled parts' harvesting for production lines, active Army units, and Foreign Military Sales. With more than 1,000 structures, SIAD'S buildings include igloos, warehouses and maintenance buildings. Containerization and Assembly: The Depot's kitting and assembly capability includes prototyping configuring, inspection and assessment of returns, replacements, preservation and packaging, equipment testing, containerization and shipment. Container Rotator: The rotator is used as an efficient way to rotate ISO, TRICON and MILVAN shipping containers, reducing the total handling time from several hours to 20 minutes, and reducing manpower needs for container logistics support. End-Of-First Life Center: SIAD's combat vehicle End-of-First Life Center includes equipment consolidation surveillance and inspection, prepositioned stock, care of supplies in storage, asset and inventory management, regeneration programs for both end items and subcomponents, upgrades and redistribution, configuration management, kitting and system assembly/disassembly. Maintenance: SIAD's maintenance personnel are able to facilitate mechanical repairs, corrosion control, metal fabrication and repairs. Retrograde, Reutilization and Redistribution: The largest organization at SIAD, the reclamation and redistribution facilities receive retrograde materials from southwest Asia, Europe and posts, camps and stations across the US.