The Commissariat de l'armée de terre (CAT) is the commissariat branch of the French Army. Its equivalent for the French Navy is the Commissariat de la marine (SCM) and for the French Air Force the Service de l'administration générale et des finances de l'armée de l'air (SAGF) (formerly known as the commissariat de l'air) - a member of any of these three is known as a commissaire aux armées (commissioner to the armies). It now carries out the general administration and finances of France's land forces. It is led by commissaires or commissioners, officers recruited by competition among university graduates.
Its roles had been carried out since at least the 14th century and the creation of commissioners for war by John the Good. Its direct predecessor was the corps des inspecteurs aux revues et des commissaires des Guerres or intendance militaire set up by an ordnance of Louis XVIII of France on 29 July 1817. It was renamed the Commissariat de l'armée de terre in 1984 and existed under that name as the Direction centrale for the army until 1 January 2010. At that date, with the other two branches' commissariats, it was put under the Direction centrale du service du commissariat des armées.
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