Air Force Journal of Logistics articles from September 2003

Air Force Journal of Logistics archives from September 2003

Career enhancement: logistics civilian career enhancement program logistics career broadening program.(Special Feature)
September 22, 2003... Logistics Civilian Career Enhancement Program--has met a multitude of challenges with regard to the logistics workforce, while providing management with quality service when filling positions. Through the Base Realignment and Closure in 1995 to...

Logistics Career Broadening Program: the Air Force Career Broadening Program provides logistics officers a chance to attain specialized knowledge in their career field.(Special Feature)
September 22, 2003... Are you looking for a challenge? Are you curious what it might be like to work in another logistics career field? Have you ever wanted to see how depot-level logistics operates? Then the Air Force Logistics Career Broadening Program (LCBP) may...

Transformation of logistics career field.(Career Personnel Information)
September 22, 2003... The Chief's Logistics Review was the catalyst for transformation of the logistics career fields. Specifically, the impetus for refocusing the career fields was the need to develop a greater depth of understanding within logistics core...

Logistics analyses: Depot Maintenance Activity Group Funding Logistics Investment Opportunities: An Economic Analysis.(Featured Readings)
September 22, 2003... The Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System currently requires operating commands to develop budgets that will cover costs of relevant AFMC support services. They use the Air Force Cost Analysis Improvement Group process to do that. This...

Depot Maintenance Activity Group Funding. (Insights from Expenditure and Fight-Hour Data.
September 22, 2003... How do logistics costs in Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) relate to operating command activity levels? The Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System currently requires operating commands to develop budgets that will cover costs of...

Logistics investment opportunities.(Assessment of program costs and benefits: an economic analysis)
September 22, 2003... Economic analysis is a formal assessment of the costs and benefits associated with a program or project. The objective of economic analysis is to assess whether the capital outlays (costs) in the current period and the projected benefits for...

German wonder weapons: degraded production and effectiveness.
September 22, 2003... Introduction World War II was the greatest conflagration this planet has ever known. It started as a few hegemonic nations annexing territory for economic reasons, then became an ideological battle between right and wrong, and finally...

The Defense Logistics Agency contributes to Operation Iraqi Freedom.(Inside logistics: exploring the heart of logistics)
September 22, 2003... Any military campaign is successful because of four things: trained warriors, ammunition, food, and fuel. Without them, it would be difficult to succeed. The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) provides two of the four: food and fuel. And there is...

Supporting special operations forces. (Inside logistics: exploring the heart of logistics).
September 22, 2003... Recent terrorist attacks throughout the world and US response to them have revealed the importance and increasing use of special operations forces (SOF). In fact, from 1998 to 2002, special operations forces deployed to an average of 150...

MEDALS: the gateway to technical data.(Inside logistics: exploring the heart of logistics)
September 22, 2003... In October 1985, the Defense Logistics Information Service was directed to establish, maintain, and operate the Department of Defense (DoD) central index and locator system, the Military Engineering Data Asset Locator System (MEDALS)....

Karate helped define logistics.(Inside logistics: exploring the heart of logistics)
September 22, 2003... Logistics is a word used in epic proportions, yet it remains an enigma. It is key to operational success in military and civilian sectors, and people like to shape it and discuss its effects, but defining it proves difficult. Defining...

Quotes.(notable)
September 22, 2003... We have petitioned.... We have entreated.... We have begged.... We beg no longer; we entreat no more; we petition no more! We defy them.