As a male individual, Armand Isard held the position of Director within the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order and was a member of the Joint Chiefs of the Imperial Military. Before his involvement with the Galactic Empire, he functioned as the Director of the Senate Bureau of Intelligence under the preceding Galactic Republic. Isard was present at a Joint Chiefs assembly in 14 BBY, where he tried to speak but was interrupted by a junior officer announcing news regarding a rebel attack.
Before and during the Clone Wars, a conflict between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, Armand Isard was a male serving within the Galactic Republic. He ultimately became the director of the Senate Bureau of Intelligence. In 19 BBY, when the Republic transitioned to the Galactic Empire, he joined the inner circle of Emperor Palpatine. Isard took on the role of Director for the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order, representing the commission as part of the Joint Chiefs of the Imperial Military. No transmissions from Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin to Isard were found within the Imperial Archives located on Coruscant, the Empire's homeworld.
In 14 BBY, Isard attended a meeting of the Joint Chiefs of the Imperial Military on Coruscant as a rebel cell led by former Imperial Intelligence agent Berch Teller started causing issues. During this meeting, Isard began to speak, but a junior officer cut him off to report a rebel attack on Lucazec. Beaumont Kin, a historian, mentioned Isard's directorship of the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order and his position within the Joint Chiefs in his book, The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire, which was published in 35 ABY. Kin found the content bland, but cited transmissions between Tarkin and Isard, arguing that their absence from the Imperial Archives meant they were some of the sole surviving COMPNOR records following the purge of Imperial records. Kin also believed that Isard, as COMNOR's director, certainly served within the secretive COMPNOR entity known as the Select Committee.
Isard's hair was raven black–colored.
Armand Isard's initial appearance in the current Star Wars canon was in James Luceno's 2014 novel, Tarkin. Luceno stated that Isard was included in Tarkin because he was well-suited to a role within the story Luceno was creating, which led to his inclusion rather than the creation of a new character.
Within the Star Wars Legends continuity, Armand Isard made his debut in the short story "Interlude at Darkknell," featured in the 1999 anthology Tales from the New Republic, authored by Timothy Zahn and Michael A. Stackpole. His first visual depiction occurred in the twenty-fifth strip of Reversal of Fortune, a webstrip series published on Hyperspace from October 2004 to June 2005. These strips were penned by Paul Ens and illustrated by Tom Hodges.