[1] Its headquarters is located at Bridges Barracks, at Puckapunyal,[2] near Seymour, Victoria, approximately 100 kilometres (62 mi) to the north of Melbourne.

[3] The centre was established in 1998–1999, in the mould of the Army Logistic Training Centre, to group the individual schools of the Army's combat corps – armour, artillery, engineers and infantry – under one command.

[10] The establishment provides individual training to officers and soldiers across a number of courses including initial employment training and regimental officer basic courses, as well as more advanced and specialty courses, using a variety of techniques and technologies including simulators and other training aids,[5][8] as well as operational equipment and weapons platforms.

In addition, the centre is the venue for a number of other training exercises and activities.

[2] A combined arms firepower demonstration is also carried out at CATC every year called Exercise Chong Ju.