AMIS Program Enhancements Automate and Simplify Deployment Logistics

PEO EIS’s Automated Movement and Identification Solutions (AMIS) product office — which provides web-based solutions that coordinate and track materiel and equipment for the U.S. Army — has announced several program enhancements designed to simplify logistical planning for unit deployments and provide significant time and cost savings.

During a presentation at the fall 2021 meeting of the National Defense Transportation Association in National Harbor, Maryland, AMIS Product Lead Keith Baylor briefed attendees on the Transportation Coordinators’ Automated for Movements System II (TC-AIMS II), an integrated transportation information system that supports deployment, sustainment, redeployment and retrograde operations. Comprised of three modules — Unit Move, Convoy Planning Highway Regulation (CPHR) and Theater Operations — TC-AIMS II helps installation, unit and depot-level transportation managers by creating inbound and outbound movement documents and requisition information. The program automates and manages the movement of personnel, equipment and sustainment cargo, maintaining visibility at the tactical, operational and strategic levels.

One recent enhancement to the system’s CPHR module, according to Baylor, is that it now has the ability to track multiple convoys for the National Guard. When military units deploy and require convoys, Deployment Movement Centers (DMCs) are responsible for controlling military movements on highways, and CPHR supports them in establishing convoy clearances. Future iterations of CPHR will allow users to remove denied routes and to web-enable traffic circulation plans (TCPs).

Additional program features include:

• TCP application, which is used to create, define and manage the rules of the road. It does so by creating convoy routes, halt points, check points, traffic control points and road closures.


• Convoy Planning application, which enables users to create and submit convoy requests based on TC-AIMS II Unit Move Reference Data and/or Unit Assets.


• Highway Regulator application, which performs convoy scheduling, de-conflicting and approval. It also identifies dimensional restrictions along routes.


• Sustainment Matrix, which allows highway regulators to manage approved convoy movements traveling through or into a TCP owned by the highway regulator. This capability allows users to view details and forms applicable to select convoys and confirm convoy movements vis-a-vis potential changes in the road network, like road closures. User can also cancel convoys.


• Application Core, which serves as the foundation for the CPHR tool suite, provides reusable assets, authentication and start-up, user parameters and preferences, an initial data model and database access. It is also responsible for common functionality, form and document generation, data validation, notifications, data sorting and filtering, and logging.

According to Baylor, another impending enhancement to TC-AIMS II is its interface with a commercial off-the-shelf system that uses lasers and 3D imagery to scan vehicles and provide physical dimensional data in just seconds. The Deployable Automated Cargo Measurement System (DACMS) — which achieved proof of concept in 2020 — scans equipment as it rolls across a scale and automatically and securely imports the data into TC-AIMS II. While it currently takes a week or more to perform dimensional measurements via manual methods, the new system will enable an entire brigade to get measured and underway within one day.

“Our system’s new interface with DACMS will enable the Army to quickly build manifests and increase processing efficiency in support of unit movements, thus saving time and money,” said Baylor. “Team AMIS is proud to help support the Army’s digital transformation into a more lethal and modern force.”

TC-AIMS II’s interface with DACMS begins government acceptance testing in January 2022 and will be demonstrated at Fort Eustis, Virginia, the following month

AMIS — a program managed by PEO EIS’s Army Data and Analytics Platforms — provides automated in-transit visibility support and transportation support solutions worldwide.