NOTE: The below is an excerpt from the National ASMC Handbook for ASMC Chapters, Chapter 7:

In 1985, the ASMC National Executive Committee adopted a plan to invite selected American corporations to become full members. The National Board's objective in extending full membership to select private sector companies was to help promote the continuous development of a partnership of information exchange between the military services and the thousands of private sector corporations that support them. A strategic partnership, based on mutual understanding, is a national imperative if DoD and its supporters are to meet to downsize, re-engineer their business processes, and outsource various functions to the private sector.

The purpose of the Corporate Membership program is to provide chapter members an opportunity to meet private sector comptrollers and gain an understanding of how they conduct business. The program also provides Corporate America an opportunity to understand how the Military Comptroller conducts business in the Defense environment. A secondary purpose is to support the Chapter and National Scholarship Programs through membership fees.

ASMC has much to offer America's corporations. Forward looking companies will readily accept an offer of full membership when the business case advantages are presented to them."