Dr. Amos was served as the Deputy to the Commanding General, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM), from 2 September 2004 to 31 December 2007.

Dr. Amos was promoted into the Senior Executive Service in October 2000 and served as the Director of the System Simulation and Development Directorate, Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center (AMRDEC). In this position he was responsible for all modeling and simulation support for Aviation, Missile, and Unmanned Systems. He also directed the AMRDEC's research and development activities in missile and fixed-wing UAV Aerodynamics.

Dr. Amos has twice served as the Acting Associate Director for Systems in the AMRDEC, where he was responsible for integrating support to all Missile and Aviation Program Managers (PMs) as well as for the collocated engineering matrix support to Team Redstone PMs.

Prior assignments include serving as the Deputy Director and then Acting Director, Engineering Directorate, AMRDEC. In this capacity, he was responsible for all AMCOM functional support in the areas of production, quality, configuration management, test, and reliability for both the Aviation and Missile commodities. He also had managerial responsibility for AMCOM's Manufacturing Technology Program, spare parts and sustainment engineering support, and cost reduction initiatives.

His other prior assignments in the AMRDEC include Deputy Director, Engineering Directorate, Deputy Director and Senior Engineer for the System Engineering and Production Directorate (SEPD), and Chief of the Prototype Engineering Division, SEPD.

Dr. Amos holds a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Auburn University, a Masters of Science degree in Engineering Management from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in System Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville.