This paper describes ASAT, the Automated Systems Approach to Training System, which has been designed to automate many of the procedures involved in the Army's Systems Approach to Training. It provides information on the background: of the project, specifically addressing the problems that heretofore confronted the training development community within the TRADOC school system in accomplishing their training support mission. It describes the problems involved in analyzing units and the jobs of individual soldiers and designing, developing and producing training support materials (in both the collective and individual training arenas) for use by commanders, training managers, trainers and soldiers in Active and Reserve Component units throughout the Army. The functional design that emerged to resolve those problems is then discussed and the capabilities of the prototype system are explained. Specific issues such as hardware suites, use of commercial-off-the-shelf software, man-machine interface, and data base design are addressed. The paper then goes on to give the results of the economic analysis and the formative evaluation of the prototype system. Based on those empirical findings, the paper then presents suggestions for making ASAT even more responsive to the needs of those involved in collective and individual training analysis, design and development and how the mature ASAT can be integrated into the TRADOC TRAMOD system.