[1] It is currently part of the Military Band Division of the General Staff of the armed forces.

On 28 January 1992, by order of the Minister of Defense Vazgen Sargsyan, the 1st Airborne Regiment was formed, which also included the first military band in Armenia.

[3] Domestically, it cooperates with the honour guard of the Defense Ministry and has a separate branch in the battalion.

In 2013, during his state visit to Armenia, the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko praised the band, including its director Armen Poghosyan for its performance of My Belarusy (the Belarusian national anthem), showing a thumbs up as a sign of gratitude and telling Poghosyan:[9] When the Band of the General Staff performed in February 2019 at the opening ceremony of IDEX 2019 in Abu Dhabi, The National (a private English-language daily newspaper based out of the United Arab Emirates) published an article describing the performance of the band and its appellant effect on the audience:[10][11][12] As of January 2016, the band took part in 1,700 governmental events.

Since 2019, it was decided to send musicians to study in military schools in order to receive the education of a full-fledged conductor.