CAA conducts analyses across the spectrum of conflict in a Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental, and Multinational (JIIM) context to inform critical senior level decisions for current and future national security issues.

Mission of CAA is to conduct analysis of Army forces and systems in the context of joint and combined warfighting.

Full-time analysts are deployed in Afghanistan, Africa, and the Pacific, providing operations research and analysis support to senior commanders.

As the scope of its analytical mission grew, CAA, located in Bethesda, MD, was designated as a Field Operating Agency in 1977, and was reassigned to the Army Chief of Staff's Organization in 1979.

CAA once focused almost exclusively on analysis of the Central Front in Germany; now it conducts analyses ranging over all areas of the globe.