Army Logistician articles from May 2005

Army Logistician archives from May 2005

Army budget plan advances Modular Force and FCS.(ALOG NEWS)
May 1, 2005... The President's budget proposals forwarded to Congress in February call for significant boosts in spending for two key Army Transformation efforts: the Modular Force and the Future Combat Systems (FCS). The Army's budget request for fiscal...

Army sets new strategic planning guidance.(ALOG NEWS)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Improving joint logistics capabilities is one of the strategic imperatives announced in the new Army Strategic Planning Guidance (ASPG). The ASPG is a long-range planning guide that defines the Army's strategy for the next 10 to 20 years....

A communications network for today's logisticians: the Army is improving its tactical communications systems so that commanders and logisticians have the on-the-move access to critical information they need on today's battlefield.
May 1, 2005... The challenge for the Army logistics community is to support the speedy deployment of soldiers and equipment and to sustain them through mission accomplishment. A combat task force generates thousands of supply requests a day. To manage that...

RFID vision in the DOD supply chain: the Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Supply Chain integration believes that the real value of RFID lies not in what it can do today but in what it will do in the future.
May 1, 2005... Today's U.S. military is a dynamic, rapidly moving force that is designed to be effective in an asynchronous battlespace. The enhanced mobility and speed of today's combat forces, which can perform in austere theaters with limited...

Information technology for Marine Corps ammunition: the enterprise of managing Marine Corps ground ammunition requires new information systems to support forces in the field.
May 1, 2005... Imagine working for a company with a merchandise inventory valued at $4.2 billion and nearly 1,500 employees working at 22 different locations around the world. Your company's inventory consists of some 337 different major end items weighing a...

Chronic medications in Iraq: a true army lesson learned; after medical logistics officers found that their plans for supplying soldiers in Iraq with chronic maintenance medications did not work, they developed a process that ensures soldiers will receive their medications without having to order them.
May 1, 2005... Nearly 2 years ago, our country was laced with a dilemma: Declare war on Iraq immediately, or allow United Nations inspectors to complete their inspections and proceed based on their findings. While this decision was being made, the military...

Patriot and Avenger reset: applying Lean Manufacturing techniques during the restoration of the Patriot and Avenger air defense systems reaped significant savings for the Government.
May 1, 2005... At the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, coalition forces repeatedly relied on the Patriot air defense missile system to knock out Scud missiles launched toward coalition command posts, base camps, and advancing troops. On 20 March 2003,...

Installation management--from Camp Swampy to the Starship Enterprise.
May 1, 2005... On "Star Trek," a groundbreaking television series in the 1960s, humans and aliens served together on the Starship Enterprise. A sequel, "Star Trek: The Next Generation," was even more visionary, making the Enterprise home to both the crew and...

Equipping the Iraqi Security Forces.
May 1, 2005... One of the 1st Infantry Division's tasks during Operation Iraqi Freedom II was to oversee the establishment of Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) within Task Force Danger's area of responsibility. This was a very important mission because the ISF is...

LOGCAP 101: an operational planner's guide: in the first of two articles on the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program, the author discusses the commander's role in planning and executing the program successfully.( Logistics Civil Augmentation Program)
May 1, 2005... During my deployment to Iraq to provide support to Operation Iraqi Freedom, commanders sometimes expressed frustration that the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) did not meet their expectations. I believe the commanders' perceptions...

Airlift operations during the Lebanon crisis: airlift of a Marine Corps battalion to Lebanon demonstrated that deploying contingency forces from the continental United States to an overseas operation was feasible and expeditious.
May 1, 2005... During the Cold War, the United States deployed its Armed Forces to support the national objectives of various countries around the globe. The majority of those operations were short in duration and occurred in underdeveloped areas of the...

Slaying the manpower dragon: the success of a manpower assessment and review is directly related to the length of time spent on meaningful preparation.(COMMENTARY)
May 1, 2005... Suppose you are the commander or chief of a table of distribution and allowances (TDA) logistics activity. You receive a letter from your major Army command stating that a manpower assessment and review team is scheduled to visit your...

Confused or absolved? Our COMMZ 'megaproblem'.(COMMENTARY)(communications zone )
May 1, 2005... In his book, Managing the Dream. Reflections on Leadership and Change, Warren Bennis quotes a high-level executive in a large organization as saying, "If you're not confused, you don't know what's going on." Our military leadership culture...

A new tool for simulation modeling of logistics support: a new computer simulation tool combines Microsoft Visio's flowcharting capability and Rockwell Software's Arena simulation tool to help Army planners ensure that embedded combat service support units remain agile enough to support the Modular Force effectively.(VisioSim to strengthen the brigade combat teams)
May 1, 2005... The Modular Force concept attempts to build brigade unit organizations supported by a distribution management system with nodes that are positioned based on mission, enemy, terrain, troops, time available, and civilian considerations (METT-TC)....

New lab to test Future Combat Systems.(ALOG NEWS)(System of Systems Integration Laboratory)
May 1, 2005... Army and Boeing Company officials cut the ribbon on 28 January for the 140,000-square-foot System of Systems Integration Laboratory (SoSIL) in Huntington Beach, California. The SoSIL is a testing and simulation lab in which soldiers and...

Europe-based AMC brigade deploys to Iraq.(ALOG NEWS)(Army Materiel Command Field Support Brigade)
May 1, 2005... The Army Materiel Command Field Support Brigade-Europe (AMC FSB-E) deployed to Iraq from Germany just 2 months after it was established to provide expeditionary logistics support to forces in the field. "This deployment is exactly why the...

CDDOC initiatives reduce convoy risks.(ALOG NEWS)(Central Command's Distribution and Deployment Operations Center)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... An initiative of the U.S. Central Command's Distribution and Deployment Operations Center (CDDOC) reduces the number of U.S. truck drivers who have to transit some of Iraq's most dangerous roads each week. CDDOC is charged with synchronizing...

Chemical demilitarization progresses.(ALOG NEWS)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... The Army is scheduled to begin disposing of chemical agents at a sixth site this spring. The facility, at Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas, will destroy approximately 3,850 tons of the nerve agents GB and VX and the blister agents HT and HD. That...

Army Safety Center shifts focus to risk management.(ALOG NEWS)(Army Safety Center to become Army Combat Readiness Center)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... The Army is changing its safety program to incorporate safety into the fabric of daily operations. As a part of this change, the Army Safety Center at Fort Rucker, Alabama, became the Army Combat Readiness Center (USACRC) in February. The...

TRADOC implements learning management system.(ALOG NEWS)( Army Training and Doctrine Command )(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... The Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) is implementing the new, Web-based Army Learning Management System (ALMS), which will help students, trainers, and training managers to conduct and manage training throughout students' Army...

Photovoltaic technology promises multiple benefits to military.(ALOG NEWS)
May 1, 2005... Researchers at the Army Soldier Systems Center at Natick, Massachusetts, believe the potential benefits to the military of a new generation of photovoltaic (PV) technologies are unlimited. PV solar cells convert light energy into...