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EDITOR’S PERSPECTIVE At the end of fiscal year 2013, DoD estimated its inventory on hand at about $98 billion. Of that, the Army accounted for $17.7 billion, the Navy with $24.2 billion and the Air Force with $36.5 billion. When compared to a similar review of inventory levels in 2009, the Navy and Air Force levels actually increased ($2.5 billion and $8.3 billion respectively) while the Army inventory dropped by about $4.5 billion.

DoD is required to report its department-wide percentage of on-hand excess inventory at the end of September each year.

Section 328 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year Jeff McKaughan 2010 required the Secretary of Defense to submit a comprehensive plan Editor for improving the inventory management systems of the military departments and the Defense Logistics Agency with the objective of reducing the acquisition and storage of secondary inventory that is excess to requirements. The Comprehensive Inventory Management Improvement Plan, which runs into FY 2016, established overarching goals to reduce the department’s percentage of on-hand excess inventory—those items categorized for potential reuse or disposal—and on-order excess inventory—those items already purchased, but that may be excess due to subsequent changes in requirements. DoD’s goal was to reduce on-hand excess inventory to 10 percent of the value of total inventory by the end of FY 2014 and to 8 percent by the end of FY 2016.

According to a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, the services have reported generally meeting DoD’s goal, but reporting issues hinder visibility of their progress in reducing on-hand excess inventory.

The Army and Navy have reported not meeting DoD’s goal for reducing on-order excess inventory, while the Air Force generally has met the goal. According to the GAO, the Army and Navy have weaknesses in their management processes that pose challenges to DoD achieving its reduction goal. Specifically, Army Materiel Command management has not established goals for each of its life-cycle management commands for reducing on-order excess inventory. The Navy is taking steps to reduce on-order excess inventory, but weaknesses remain that limit the Navy’s visibility of its on-order excess inventory. Lastly, the Air Force regularly reviews on-order excess inventory, including using graduated levels of review based on dollar thresholds and tracking the reasons for not canceling or modifying on-order excess inventory.

As an important tool in inventory management by the services has been focused on improving and monitoring demand forecasting. DoD guidance emphasizes the importance of accurately forecasting demand to support the needs of the customer. In the past, the GAO found that weaknesses in demand forecasting have contributed to the accumulation of excess inventory and backorders across DoD. Improving the accuracy of demand forecasts enhances the precision of planning and funding of procurement and repair actions, results in inventory levels that better satisfy customer demand while reducing excess and backorders and provides stability for suppliers that manufacture and repair spare parts for the services.

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The nation’s largest government-owned and operated arsenal, Rock Island Arsenal sits on an island—hence the name—in the middle of the Mississippi River. Military Logistics Technology recently sat down with Colonel David J. Luders to talk about the Rock Island Arsenal Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center.

Q: Thank you for taking the time to talk with us, Colonel Luders. The Rock Island Arsenal Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center (RIA-JMTC) was established 152 years ago. Why was it originally established?

A: Acts of Congress in 1809 established Rock Island as a military reservation. Destruction of Harper’s Ferry Arsenal in 1861 spurred Congress to see the need for “insurance” for the military’s ordnance.

In July 1862, Congress established RIA as a facility for the deposit and repair of ordnance at Rock Island. In 1865, the mission was amended to include manufacturing of equipment for the Army.

Since then, the Rock Island Arsenal has provided equipment for the military in every major conflict since the Spanish-American War. From making meat cans and horse tack at its inception to producing recoil mechanisms and advanced armor solutions today, this arsenal has answered its call to duty for more than 150 years.

Q: The RIA-JMTC is truly one of a kind in the Department of Defense because of all the manufacturing capabilities and processes under one roof. What are some of those capabilities?

A: We are the only vertically integrated metal manufacturer in the Department of Defense. That is a mouthful to say, but it means that we can take raw material in at one end of the factory and have a complete product come out the other end.

RIA-JMTC is home to the only foundry in the Department of the Army. We melt raw metal and then form it into a part using castings. From there, we can machine it in one of our 1,008 machining centers. After that, the piece goes through a heat treat, plating and painting process. Finally, we assemble it together into a final system.

Other capabilities include: heat treating/foundry operations, assembly (production line operations), casting (steel, aluminum and titanium), welding and fabrication (laser, waterjet), forging (open and closed die, impression), tool and gage manufacturing, rapid prototyping/reverse engineering, gear and spring manufacturing, machining (7 axis—236-by-147-by-68 inch), tool and die, plating (chrome, copper, nickel and zinc), engineering and laboratory services painting (CARC, camouflage and epoxy), blasting (steel, aluminum oxide and glass), non-destructive testing, and pliable materials fabrication. www.MLF-kmi.com

Q: In the past, when we profiled RIA-JMTC, we discussed how the arsenal has adapted to support the warfighter in every conflict since the Spanish-American war. How has technology changed over the years to help you adapt?

A: Technology and manufacturing have always been part of our rich history. When General Thomas Rodman was building the arsenal, he chose the Telodynamic system to transfer power to the factory. It was one of the first water-driven power systems ever used, harnessing cables to turn the machines in the factory, and perhaps the only one in the United States.

Prior to World War II, William Baumbeck at the arsenal began experimenting on broaching methods for rifling barrels. The previous hook-cutting method produced an average of only three barrels an hour per machine. Baumbeck developed a method that used a series of progressively larger cutting tools on a single tool mount. His method rifled 35 barrels an hour per machine. The new method was implemented in Army rifle manufacturing and subsequently eliminated one of the greatest possible bottlenecks to high-volume rifle and machine gun production at the start of World War II. More recently, over the past 10 years the arsenal has invested in more than 100 million dollars’ worth of new machining centers and other advanced manufacturing infrastructure to support the warfighter. Some of those machines included bridge mills large enough to machine a small car and spring machines that can make the tiniest of springs to go into a small arms weapon.

We continue to look at new technology in manufacturing trends.

In addition to the equipment I just mentioned, we also have a Stratasys Fuse Deposition Modeling 3-D printer that is capable of printing plastic parts. This is allowing us to explore the very initial stages of additive manufacturing. The printer, coupled with our foundry, gives the arsenal the capability to go from printed plastic parts to full metal parts in 10 days using the RIA-JMTC investment casting process.

Q: Manufacturing a sound product is more than just having the right machine; it is about having the right processes as well, isn’t it? Can you speak to this?

A: You are absolutely right. Processes are just as equally important in producing manufactured goods for the warfighter.

Our vision statement states we will “provide versatile manufacturing solutions that exceed customer expectations using the most MLF 9.4 | 3

SPECIAL SECTION current technology with our skilled workforce.” I would like to point out “manufacturing solutions.” We have capabilities that go beyond just manufacturing. We offer engineering services such as reverse engineering and a host of non-destructive testing and laboratory services that allow us to test in-house.

Also, our processes are only as good as the system that runs them. For the past three years, we have been operating under the Logistics Modernization Program (LMP), the Army’s SAP implementation.

In June, we will be one of the first organic industrial base organizations to roll out increment two of LMP. This rollout will give the factory a true Manufacturing Execution System (MES) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system that is tied to the rest of our systems. The new system will allow us to have access to realtime data to help drive business decisions.

Colonel David J. Luders serves as the 47th commander of the Rock Island Arsenal Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center (RIA-JMTC), a position he has held since July 11, 2013. As commanding officer, Luders oversees operations of the only multipurpose and vertically integrated metal manufacturer in the Department of Defense, applying the unique technical expertise and equipment to manufacture products high in quality and sustainability.

Luders came to RIA-JMTC from the U.S. Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command, where he served as the military deputy commander of the G-3 (Operations) at Redstone Arsenal, Ala. Prior to that, he served as the executive officer for the deputy commanding general of the Army Materiel Command at Redstone Arsenal.

Q: You mentioned engineering services. Do you also work closely with the research, development and engineering commands?

A: Yes, we work very closely with those research commands. A very good example would be our relationship with the Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC). We recently completed a prototype for the new line of communication bridge. It was a close partnership between the program manager for Bridging (PM-Bridging) and TARDEC. We worked hand in hand with them on improving the design for manufacturability. In the end, we helped engineer a bridge that had 87 percent less parts than its predecessor. In addition, we were able to come in 2 million dollars less than the original estimate we had for the prototype bridge.

That is just one good example of how we can work with any program manager across DoD to make a product better.

Q: Additive Manufacturing (AM) seems to be the new buzzword thrown around a lot these days. Where do you see additive manufacturing in the arsenal’s future?

A: I think additive manufacturing has to be a part of the arsenal’s future. We are already starting to explore how we can capitalize on the existing 3-D plastic printer that we have. We also have a partnership with a company that has a metal 3-D printing capability that we have utilized in the past.

There have been discussions within the Army research and engineering communities about how the Army can harness this new technology, and I, fortunately, have been included in some of those discussions. Additive manufacturing (AM) for us is very much a crawl, walk, run type of thing, and we are only on the cusp of crawling. Now is the time to set the conditions for how AM is going to be rolled out across the entire Army enterprise. Who is the owner of the digital files for digital manufacturing? Unfortunately, I’m not the 4 | MLF 9.4

In addition to his bachelor’s degree in political science and German history from Birmingham Southern College, he holds master’s degrees in Acquisition Management from Webster University and a Master of Strategic Studies from the U.S. Air War College. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and Joint CWS, Joint Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Va. He is also a recent graduate of the AMC Depot and Arsenal Executive Leadership Program.

His awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, five Meritorious Service Medals, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, four Army Commendation Medals, four Army Achievement Medals, two National Defense Service Medals, the Expert Infantryman’s Badge, the Parachutist Badge and the Ranger Tab.

one to answer those questions, but I’m glad we are able to provide some input to it.

Q: Colonel, this has been a great discussion about technology at your manufacturing center, and it is clear that RIA-JMTC is moving forward. With all these advances in technology, has it opened any new doors to markets that you previously haven’t explored?

A: We are actually looking at how we can provide support to critical flight safety parts for the Army aviation community. We aren’t looking into initially breaking into the aerospace arena, but rather if our capabilities can support a niche market within the Army.

We are currently reviewing our processes for AS 9100 compliance (AS 9100 is an aerospace standard based on the ISO 9001 quality system requirements) along with doing some first article tests on parts to meet the Quality Engineering Standard 1 (QE-STD-1) to allow us to support Army aviation.

The tolerances and discipline used to manufacture howitzer recoil systems is very similar to producing flight-critical parts. I know we have the right people with the right skill sets to produce the parts; we just need to ensure that we have the proper protocols in place to track the development and processes of the flight-critical parts.

It is certainly a new area that many people are excited about.

Q: Thank you, Colonel Luders, for your time today. Is there anything else you want to add?

A: Thank you for taking the time to talk to me. If anyone has never seen the Rock Island Arsenal, I would invite them to come to this amazing island in the middle of the Mississippi River and see firsthand what a national treasure this place is. O For more information, contact Editor-in-Chief Jeff McKaughan at jeffm@kmimediagroup.com or search our online archives for related stories at www.mlf-kmi.com.

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Capabilities Division, USTRANSCOM (USTC J5-G), in an exclusive In recent years, the role of the U.S. Transportation Command interview with Military Logistics Forum. Morse came on board as has grown from distribution process owner to global distribution the plan was moving toward approval and has marshaled the plan synchronizer. What difference does that make? through the first year and a half of its execution.

In September 2003, when the secretary of defense, in a memo Moving TRANSCOM from a process owner to a distribution titled “Actions To Improve Logistics and Supply Chain Managesynchronizer was meant to begin an effort to eliminate stovepiped ment,” designated the commander, USTRANSCOM, as DoD’s distribution-related activities, including infrastructure develdistribution process owner, USTRANSCOM was tasked to “improve opment, access and leveraging security cooperation to enable the overall efficiency and interoperability of distribution-related transportation routes. “Experiences in building our capability to activities—deployment, sustainment and redeployment support support Afghanistan,” Morse said, “pointed to the need to synchroduring peace and war…” and to “serve as the single entity to direct nize distribution planning across the Department of Defense to and supervise execution of the Strategic Distribution System.” proactively set conditions for distribution success.”

In 2011, commander, USTRANSCOM was designated as the The most important aspect of the campaign plan, according to global distribution synchronizer in the Unified Command Plan Morse, is that it elevates the conversation about logistics within and was tasked to build a campaign plan to ensure an agile, scalthe Department of Defense. “Every year, the USTRANSCOM comable and resilient global distribution network was in place. The mander briefs the undersecretary of defense for policy on issues result of that effort, the Campaign Plan for Global Distribution, within the Global Distribution Network that allows DoD to deploy, was approved in January 2014 by then-Under Secretary of Defense sustain and redeploy U.S. forces around the globe,” she explained. for Policy James Miller.

“This is huge for the warfighter.”

“This seminal effort is the first step in facilitating logistics Logistics is usually under the purview of the Office of the planning synchronization across all geographic and functional Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logiscombatant command boundaries, as well as identifying and prioritizing necessary distribution network enhancements,” said tics (ATL). “Briefing the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy ensures distribution planning is a consideration as we form all of General Paul Selva, commander, USTRANSCOM, in testimony our operational plans,” Morse said. “ATL is in the room, but we before Congress last March. “In the first year of execution, we briefed the undersecretary for policy and it was policy asking us examined the challenges posed by rebalancing and rebasing forces the questions. As we go through our annual cycles, ensuring that as DoD transitions to a more CONUS-based focus, increased area we are getting to the right points of leadership is really key.” access and area denial challenges, shifts in strategic focus, and These organizational changes allow logistics budget reductions affecting the distribution enterand distribution to receive their proper strategic prise’s readiness for future operations. This year, we consideration. “We have learned from recent years will conduct more in-depth reviews of geographic of operating continuously that establishing and suscombatant commanders’ theater distribution plans, taining a complex global distribution network must incorporating strategic guidance from DoD’s Guidbegin long before a force movement is validated or ance for Employment of the Force and the Joint sustainment is provided,” she explained. “If we wait, Strategic Capabilities Plan.” we run the risk of being late to need and it costing “The synchronizer role and the campaign plan more or both. Key lessons learned and global macro that comes with it build on responsibilities previtrends since Operation Desert Storm have prodded ously assigned to the commander, USTRANSCOM the Department of Defense’s distribution towards a as the distribution process owner,” said Captain Capt. Michelle Morse more centralized and integrated system.”

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Historically, USTRANSCOM looked at one part of the globe at a time when it came to its planning processes. But the evolution of information technology and the drive towards jointness in the force presented the opportunity to build towards a comprehensive view of the movement of goods.

“We’re now partnered with Defense Logistics Agency in bringing a holistic view of the global distribution network into Department of Defense planning efforts,” Morse said. “In addition, we’re collaborating with combatant commands, services and other defense agencies to build a common view of future network requirements and capabilities. The campaign plan allows the distribution community to speak with a single voice and ensure visibility of distribution issues at the highest levels of DoD decision-making for the first time ever.

That is pretty exciting for a logistician.”

USTRANSCOM’s ultimate goal in the plan is to be the “transportation and enabling capability provider of choice” across DoD. “With significant changes in the nature of military operations and funding challenges, we have to be absolutely the best at what we do, providing transportation and other capabilities in support of the Department of Defense and other agencies,” Morse said. “To achieve this, USTRANSCOM is systematically working through the focus areas of our command strategy to preserve readiness capability, achieve information technology excellence, align resources and processes for mission success and developing customer-focused professionals.

The ultimate goal is the readiness of our military fleet, and that of our commercial providers, to meet the needs of our customers in times of peace and war.”

The campaign plan is subject to an annual iterative cycle ensuring flexibility in planning and execution, according to Morse.

“This annual cycle allows us to readjust the focus of our efforts as conditions change,” Morse said. “Each year, plan execution begins with the development of a strategic framework that identifies the distribution implications of changes in the strategic environment and strategic guidance, emerging threats and opportunities, and the evolution of DoD warfighting concepts.”

As part of that process, distribution and transportation stakeholders assess the capabilities of the global distribution network in light of the strategic framework. “This assessment identifies and prioritizes issues that must be worked to ensure the network provides the agility, scalability and resilience we need going forward,” Morse said. “Therefore, each year the plan will look at what has changed in DoD since the last iteration and what that means to the network. By its nature it won’t get outdated sitting on a shelf.”

This process compels members of DoD’s distribution community of interest to speak face to face about changes in the strategic environment, gaps in distribution planning processes and how these may be addressed. “Each year guidance, policy and technology change, so we look at these issues with a fresh set of eyes,” Morse said. “For combatant commanders, this means we will have looked with their planners at their geographic area, talked through where they may have to operate in the future, and be set up to support them. Warfighters don’t have to worry whether future operations will require them to go right or left because we will already have anticipated that and have a global distribution network ready for them to fall in on.”

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disruption. In the plan, our assessments of the strategic environment, requirements, threats, opportunities and emerging concepts may bring to light capability gaps that will have to compete within Department of Defense resource allocation processes.”

As new technologies are incorporated into USTRANSCOM’s distribution capabilities, the plan calls for adjusting processes and the global distribution network as appropriate as part of the annual iterative process. “In the meantime, we’re working with our DoD partners and commercial providers to enhance security of our distribution cyber data,” Morse said. “We are identifying key data elements and examining where we hold them, how they are secured and where we interact with commercial providers. The Joint Cyber Center at USTRASCOM is leading the way in a lot of areas for DoD, but we still have a long way to go. This is an area we will be working on for the foreseeable future.”

USTRANSCOM’s mission to synchronize distribution planning is still evolving. “In our second year, we are beginning to extend our efforts in building more synchronicity with theater distribution plans across the department, through iterative cycles,” Morse said. “I expect we’ll be working to better integrate and better synchronize our distribution planning efforts for some time going forward, and this iterative plan will allow us to do just that.” O For more information, contact Editor-in-Chief Jeff McKaughan at jeffm@kmimediagroup.com or search our online archives for related stories at www.mlf-kmi.com.

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Inventory management on tight budgets is good business and good stewardship of public funding.

By Henry Canaday, MLF Correspondent Intense budget pressures mean there is no money to waste on inventories in excess of true Defense Department needs and no money to throw away on spoiled inventories. Systems for matching inventories to demand, tracking all items through the supply chain and preventing spoilage have been continually upgraded in recent years.

They are playing a critical role in sustaining defense capabilities at the lowest possible cost.

For example, the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) uses several different methodologies for determining the most efficient inventory levels, explained Steven St. John, deputy director of DLA Strategic Policy and Logistics Programs. The methodologies are primarily chosen according to whether industry can readily supply an item or if DLA will need to stock the item.

“If the commercial source can satisfy the order directly to our customers, we don’t stock the inventory,” St. John said.

“We establish a contract with the source and pass the requisition directly to the vendor, and they ship to the customer, thus avoiding the need for DLA inventory.” This sourcing strategy has been extensively used in the medical, subsistence and food-related commodities that DLA manages.

When DLA decides to stock an item, historical demand for the item is the most important determinant of the most efficient way to support customer demand. For items with relatively frequent and steady demand, DLA can choose among more than five different commercial forecasting models and select the model most appropriate. DLA then uses the forecast demand to optimize its safety stock level and economic order 8 | MLF 9.4

quantity level to reduce the likelihood of excess inventory.

For items with highly variable demands, DLA recently adopted an inventory levelsetting model called Peak and Next Gen. “This model looks at a longer demand history and calculates tradeoffs between inventory investment, customer support and workload to provide the most effective inventory levels,” St. John said. Additional programs are used for items on which customer collaboration can enhance DLA’s support or minimize its inventory investment.

St. John pointed out that another way to minimize inventory investment is reducing the number of places where DLA stores items.

“Whenever possible, we try to keep the vast majority of our stock in a single location that best supports our customer requirements.”

In addition to its inventory forecasting and level-setting models to determine how much inventory to buy, DLA also uses inventory retention models. These help DLA determine how much to keep when demand decreases. Inventory retention models look at longer-term probabilities of future demand compared with the continued storage cost associated with inventories.

To reduce spoilage in inventories, DLA uses the Distribution Standard System. The DSS provides accountability for inventories with unique storage requirements, including items that require temperature-controlled environments. To minimize spoilage, DLA also uses the first-in, first-out (FIFO) inventory storage method. Furthermore, “items with assigned storage and shelf life codes are subjected to inspection, test, restoration or disposal action according to regulatory guidance,” St. John said.

For tracking assets, DLA uses a combination of 2-D bar codes, active and passive radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and associated infrastructure. The resulting data are processed through DLA’s IT systems, and all the information is amalgamated in the Defense Department’s in-transit visibility (ITV) servers maintained by the Army’s Product Director Automated Movement and Identification Solutions (PD AMIS).

The U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM) is DoD’s lead for ITV. DLA uses active RFID tags on cargo containers and passive RFID tags on lower levels of packing for transportation. DLA obtains ITV using active RFID that generates a systemic Electronic Data Interface (EDI) transaction.

These transactions are sent to an RFID server, which in turn updates the Integrated Global Convergence (IGC) system.

IGC provides integrated data and application services enabling a cohesive distribution solution. It provides a common logistics picture and materiel ITV for DLA customers.

DLA is continuing to examine the possibility of expanded use of mobile computing devices in support of this common logistics picture and asset ITV. One very important defense supply chain is all the supplies and equipment that support DoD’s medical facilities. Here, a special and very sophisticated system yields solid performance and maximum economy.

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satellite clinics, explained Colonel John Rogers, director of DHA’s Joint Medical Logistics Functional Development center.

DMLSS handles 7.5 million transactions worth $4.8 billion each year. On-hand inventories are captured either directly in DMLSS or through handheld terminals that allow each facility’s personnel to enter shelf-count information and orders via barcodes. An interface with point-of-use cabinets passes consumption information to DMLSS. The system manages orders from hospital customers to DHA logistics. This information allows DMLSS to precisely analyze inventory and usage data, thus predicting exactly how much stock will be needed to keep up with demand.

There is also a close relationship between DMLSS and DLA, as well with as medical distribution companies known as prime vendors. These prime vendors have contracts with DMLSS sites to furnish medical, surgical and pharmaceutical supplies.

So DMLSS tracks medical supplies both inside and outside each medical facility.

Here is how it works in detail: Within each facility, DMLSS is managed by the facility’s logistics department and the wards, clinics and other sections that consume medical supplies. Each section maintains an inventory of items. The section updates inventory through DMLSS, recording either quantities on hand during a periodic count or quantities used. Some sections have handheld devices that scan barcode labels to identify a product. Users enter a quantity on the handheld device, which synchronizes data with the DMLSS server.

Some facilities also use point-of-use cabinets, which maintain small inventories where items are used. When a health care provider uses an item, the cabinet itself captures usage and shares it with DMLSS, which tracks all inventories and usage.

When an inventory drops below a preset level, DMLSS reorders through the facility’s logistics unit. Logistics maintains its own inventories and generates orders to prime vendors, DLA or local suppliers as required.

Externally, DMLSS interfaces with DLA and prime-vendor systems. Electronic advance shipping notices let facilities know that requested materiel is on the way. In theater, DMLSS also interfaces with the Cargo Movement Operations System, which coordinates and tracks shipments through the Global Transportation Network.

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Data Interchange files. High-quality data and direct communication with vendor systems allow vendors to supply most ordered items within 24 to 48 hours of order.

DMLSS also provides tools such as the Strategic Sourcing Initiative. This enables facility staff to quickly identify items that could be procured more efficiently, for example, by standardizing similar orders as a common item or ordering with a preferred unit of packaging.

Further, DMLSS provides a full suite of equipment-management, maintenancemanagement and facility-management capabilities, some of which are integrated into inventory management. For example, equipment work orders can generate requests to a facility’s parts inventory.

The net result is that, instead of maintaining warehouses of materiel needed for a week or month of usage until an order is fulfilled, facilities can maintain just a few days’ worth of inventory. DMLSS enables medical logistics to move from warehouse management to materiel throughput, reducing facility footprint, storage volumes and inventory and labor costs. No small feat, given that just daily usage at many medical facilities is measured in truckloads of thousands of different products.

DMLSS helps to reduce spoilage of inventories primarily by closely tracking the usage of each product. It can predict demand and order the right amount up front. By limiting the amount on the shelves, DMLSS enables stocks to be consumed in most cases before their expiration dates.

In addition, DMLSS can track quality assurance data, including product lot numbers and expiration dates. Facility staff members thus have the data to ensure they are rotating stocks. If a facility spots a stock that will not be consumed prior to expiration, the prime vendor’s return program can offer credit for an expiring item, rather than forcing its local destruction.

Finally, DMLSS’s quality assurance tracking allows facilities to participate in DoD’s Shelf Life Extension Program. By testing representative samples of particular lot numbers, DoD can often extend the shelf life of medical materiel items. This is especially beneficial for items in the War Reserve Material (WRM) program. WRM stocks are stored for lengthy periods, ready to dispatch globally for military contingencies or natural disasters. By supporting Shelf Life Extension, DMLSS significantly reduces the cost of rotating WRM supplies.

Recently, DMLSS has exploited enhancements in prime vendor contracts with pharmaceutical suppliers to add functions for hold orders and delayed deliveries. Hold orders allow facilities to order items that are not immediately available. Previously, facilities had to check back repeatedly to reorder the item when available. Now, facilities can place an order that stays open for six months or until it is satisfied, whichever comes first.

Delayed delivery allows facilities to order items for delivery on specific future dates. This will reduce storage and handling requirements at facilities that build deployable assemblages, collections of medical items for specific purposes, from first-aid kits to deployable hospitals. Delayed delivery could also be used to pre-order materiel for a deploying unit, having it shipped directly to the unit’s destination to meet it on arrival.

In both these cases, delayed delivery ensures the best potency and shelf life for the pharmaceuticals.

DMLSS also supports the Army Health Facility Planning Agency’s Initial Outfit and Transition process. When outfitting a new or renovated Army medical facility, all equipment records are transferred from the outfitting vendor’s system to DMLSS automatically, eliminating manual entry and allowing the facility to validate records before accepting equipment.

DMLSS interacts with a number of other IT systems at DLA, at medical logistics depots, at deployed units and for medical evacuations. But it remains the core of DHA’s ability to ensure hospital supplies are there when needed at the lowest inventory cost.

Any changes to DMLSS required by DHA facilities are made under DMLSS sustainment. When funded, these changes can be delivered in weeks or months. DMLSS users are involved from the start, leading to prompter delivery of needed enhancements.

Though funding is tight, DHA would like to move DMLSS away from a client-server architecture and toward into a more netcentric, modern architecture. It also wants to develop a highly intuitive storefront for the application that enhances user experience. Rogers said he would like DMLSS to be as easy to use as Amazon.com eventually. O

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Army Seeks Portable Vehicle Lifting Systems This is a synopsis for 24 fully self-contained and controlled portable vehicle lifting systems to allow lifting the vehicle from the front and rear simultaneously to enable under-vehicle work by technicians on any floor surface with suspension system unloaded (hanging freely).

The integrated system must be usable for lifting all U.S.

Army MRAP vehicle variants up to 44 U.S. tons. Units will plug into 400 V 50HZ plug-in power from wall sockets. Delivery, setup and training for approximately 80 technicians on site at Coleman Barracks, Mannheim, Germany, is also required. The system includes safety jacks that will suspend the vehicle and support 72 U.S. tons when lifting units are removed.

DLA Distribution Innovates Packing to Save Money As the Department of Defense and the Defense Logistics Agency continue to evaluate opportunities to decrease costs, DLA Distribution, a field activity, has found a way to do its part. A joint team across DLA Distribution, made up of experts in packaging and packing policies, base supply, contracting and finance was established to consider how costs could be reduced and standardization could be introduced in the area of packing supplies.

Armed with a goal to reduce the DLA Distribution supply budget by 10 percent, the team evaluated the processes associated with ordering and inventory management and identified areas where processes could be standardized across the network. Along with cost reductions, the team focused on reducing variances and standardizing supplies, including pallets, fiberboard boxes, packing list envelopes and tape.

As a result of the effort, and because they can be ordered in greater quantities, the price of pallets was reduced by $12 each. Packing list envelope types were reduced from 17 to three, an 82-percent reduction.

Box types were also reduced from more than 250 down to 115, and five types of tape for standard packing were selected.

The price reduction for pallets, which was the first supply the team standardized, saved $3 million in fiscal year 2014. Overall, the team had a goal of saving $3.9 million from all of the packaging supply initiatives, but will exceed that goal and save almost $34 million in fiscal year 2014.

“It has been a great experience being involved in a process where there are such immediate results involving the whole DLA Distribution enterprise,” said Julie Callahan, DLA Distribution’s continuous process improvement coordinator. “Our savings are a definite result of great teamwork and continuous participation.”

This project did not impact any specialized supplies needed to meet mission requirements in specific packing areas such as hazardous materials. The team is continuing to work on standardizing gloves and tri-walls, focusing on the necessary types for different work areas.

“This particular project will provide consistency and efficiency in what is purchased to support our distribution mission, enabling DLA Distribution to produce cost savings and cost avoidances as we continue to meet the demands for budget reductions,” said Rose Snavely-Howe, chief of the Acquisition Management Division.

Article by Jessica Roman, DLA Distribution public affairs.

Training With Industry Training With Industry (TWI) is a 12-month program providing Supply Corps lieutenants and lieutenant commanders with the opportunity to represent the United States Navy while serving in fellowships with some of the top corporations in the nation. Officers selected for this program will be exposed to executive-level decision-making at a Fortune 500 Company, expand their professional supply chain and logistics education, and provide a conduit for ideas on logistics innovation back to the Navy.

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Candidates for TWI programs will be selected by a flag-led selection board and receive an observed fitness report from the Commander, Naval Supply Systems Command and Chief of Supply Corps.

The list of TWI sites includes Starbucks Coffee Company (Seattle, Wash.), The Home Depot (Atlanta, Ga.), FedEx (Memphis, Tenn.) and ExxonMobil (Houston, Texas).

All lieutenants and lieutenant commanders (not in zone for promotion to commander) who

have completed two operational tours, possess a master’s degree (or will graduate in calendar year 2016 from any of the Supply Corps Post Graduate education programs) and have a planned rotation date (PRD) in 2016 will be considered. Additionally, ExxonMobil candidates will possess (or will earn prior to their PRD) a 1307S, 1307R or 1307Q subspecialty code.

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Major General Gwen Bingham Commander U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command Major General Gwen Bingham assumed command of the U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command on June 25, 2014.

Bingham is a native of Troy, Ala. She graduated from Army ROTC as a Distinguished Military Graduate from the University of Alabama in August 1981 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in general business management. She was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps. Bingham has a master’s degree in administration from Central Michigan University and a master’s degree in national security strategy and resources from the National Defense University. On April 19, 2013, Major General Bingham was confirmed by the Senate for promotion to major general.

Her military schooling includes the Quartermaster Officer Basic and Advanced Courses; the Personnel Management Course; Combined Arms and Services Staff School; Commissary Management Course; Army Command and General Staff College; the Army Inspector General Course; the Industrial College of the Armed Forces; and the CAPSTONE General and Flag Officer Course.

Bingham has served in a myriad of staff and leadership positions throughout her career, including: platoon leader and executive officer, HQ&A Company, 9th Supply and Transportation Battalion, 9th DISCOM, Fort Lewis, Wash.; battalion S1, 2d Forward Support Battalion, 9th DISCOM, Fort Lewis; field services officer, 1st COSCOM, Fort Bragg, N.C.; group S1/adjutant, 507th Transportation Group, 1st COSCOM, Fort Bragg; officer in charge, Commissary Central Distribution Center, Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA), Manheim, Germany; chief, Aviation Supply Branch, 4th Corps Materiel Management Center, Fort Hood, Texas; battalion S3 and battalion executive officer, 4th Corps Materiel Management Center, Fort Hood; chief of the Plans Division, ACofS, Materiel, 13th COSCOM, Fort Hood; chief, G3 Plans Division, 13th COSCOM; deputy commander, 64th Corps Support Group, 13th COSCOM, Fort Hood; executive officer, ACofS J1, USFK, Yongsan, Korea; commander, 266th Quartermaster Battalion, 23d Quartermaster Brigade, Fort Lee, Va.; chief, Support Services Office and deputy inspector general, joint staff, the Pentagon; commander, United States Garrison, Fort Lee; and chief of staff, United States Army Combined Arms Support Command and Sustainment Center of Excellence, Fort Lee. Bingham deployed in April 2010 in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom while serving as special assistant to the www.MLF-kmi.com

commanding general, 1st Theater Sustainment Command, Camp Arifjan, Kuwait; Kabul, Afghanistan and Kandahar, Afghanistan.

She served as the 51st quartermaster general of the United States Army and Commandant of the U.S. Army Quartermaster School, Fort Lee. Prior to her current assignment, she served as commanding general, U.S. Army White Sands Missile Range, N.M. Bingham is the recipient of numerous military and civic awards commensurate with her rank. These include the Distinguished Service Medal; Defense Superior Service Medal; Legion of Merit (with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters); Defense Meritorious Service Medal (with Oak Leaf Cluster); Meritorious Service Medal (with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters); Joint Service Commendation Medal; Army Commendation Medal (with Oak Leaf Cluster); Army Achievement Medal; Humanitarian Service Medal; National Defense Service Medal; Afghanistan Campaign Medal; Iraqi Campaign Medal; NATO Service Medal; Korean Defense Service Medal; Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal; and Global War on Terrorism Service Medal. She is authorized to wear the Joint Staff Identification Badge. Major General Bingham was presented the 2013 Strong Men and Women in Virginia History award and the 2013 Wise Woman Award; named “2013 Mover and Shaker” in Las Cruces, N.M.; presented the El Paso Chapter, Links, Incorporated TACOM Life Cycle Management Command | MLF 9.4 | 1

TACOM Life Cycle Management COMMAND TACOM Life Cycle Management Command Board of Directors

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Maj. Gen. Gwen Bingham Command General

Magid Athnasios Deputy to the Commander (Acting)

Brig. Gen. Brian P. Cummings PEO Soldier

Scott J. Davis PEO Combat Support & Combat Service Support

Brian Butler Integrated Logistics Support Center

Kristan Mendoza Army Contracting Command-Warren (Acting)

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TACOM LCMC Board of Directors Support Advisors

Command Sgt. Maj. Jesse L. Sharpe, Jr. Command Sergeant Major

Col. Patricia Sellers Chief of Staff

Col. Mark Brinkman Program Manager Light Armored Vehicles

Matthew Pausch Command Counsel

Alan Parks U.S. Army Garrison-Detroit Arsenal Manager

Paul Gayan Network Enterprise Center (Acting)

Brig. Gen. David G. Bassett PEO Ground Combat Systems

Carmen Spencer JPEO for Chemical and Biological Defense

Kevin Fahey System of Systems Engineering and Integration Directorate

Dr. Paul Rogers Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center

John Hedderich Armaments Research, Development & Engineering Center

Suzanne Milchling Natick Soldier Research, Development & Engineering Center (Acting)

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Dean Tom Civilian Personnel Advisory Center

Dr. Joseph L. Corriveau Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

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TACOM Life Cycle Management COMMAND “2014 Star Award;” the “Southwest Women’s Law Center 2014 Celebrating Women’s Stories award; and the “2014 Rock of the Year Award” for her community and civic contributions.

Q: Could we start with a quick look at your budget? How do your procurement, RDT&E and O&M funding lines compare to last year? If your requested budget is approved as is, where do you see the biggest stressors coming from in terms of projects and programs?

A: The TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (LCMC) is a unique organization that enables sustainable readiness. When we talk about TACOM, it’s important to remember that the TACOM LCMC is both a TACOM LCMC’s budget has decreased by 10 percent from FY14 to FY15. The majority of that change is in the Operating and command in the Army Materiel Command Maintenance, Army account. [Photo courtesy of U.S. Army] (AMC) and also a life cycle management the inability to incorporate future technologies; and the inbound command that unites a coalition of partners from both AMC and Army network due to size, weight, power and cooling. The M113 the Army Acquisition Corps—crossing the acquisition, logistics and could no longer provide commanders with viable capabilities to technology functions for an incredible amount of Army systems. maneuver across the full breadth of the battlefield.

Together, TACOM and the three program executive offices aligned In December 2014, the Army awarded a contract for engineerwith it are responsible for 65 percent of every major end item in a ing and manufacturing development work to BAE Systems, which brigade combat team. Ensuring that equipment is not only ready set in motion a long-awaited and important modernization effort but continually sustained and improved is a tremendous challenge. for the Army.

It really takes a “team of teams” which is how I prefer to describe The AMPV (armored multi-purpose vehicle) is a family of vehithe TACOM LCMC. cles that will fill critical force protection, survivability and mobility In terms of our budget, not everyone realizes it, but as a specific capability gaps essential in today’s armored brigade combat teams. system moves through its lifecycle, it is funded by different “colors At Team TACOM, we’ve worked diligently to take the right steps of money.” So, across our team of teams, different entities control early on to minimize risks and maximize commonality to ensure different accounts for the systems our soldiers need--emphasizing AMPV remains an affordable solution for the Army. the importance of collaboration. Of course, the biggest real costs The effort will produce 29 vehicles that will be used for rigorous for a system comes after it is fielded—its operation and sustainment and thorough developmental and operational testing to ensure they costs—which is a major part of the TACOM LCMC’s responsibilities. are effective and suitable for today’s mechanized warrior. The award As you know, sequestration hit the Army’s operations funding also has an optional low-rate initial production phase, where an accounts hard. Overall, TACOM LCMC’s budget has decreased by 10 additional 289 vehicles would be produced. percent from FY14 to FY15. The majority of that change is in our The AMPV is part of the Army’s Fleet Modernization Plan to Operating & Maintenance, Army (OMA) account. While there has upgrade our current fleet. When completed, the AMPV, as a family of been some variation in our procurement and RDT&E accounts, the vehicles, will fill roles such as medical treatment and medical evacuimpact is minor and in some cases offset in a shift of funding from ation, command and control and mortar carrier, among others. one to the other. The primary stressor is a decrease in OMA funding which impacts our most critical requirements. To soften this, we Q: With much talk about introducing sustainment into programs work throughout TACOM, AMC and the Army enterprise to ensure at the earliest stages possible, do you see the AMPV program doing we optimize the readiness of our weapon systems and capabilities. that? What are some examples from the program so far that are As always, our first priority is to the soldiers in harm’s way. not just looking at the acquisition costs but at the total cost of ownership?

Q: Tell me about the AMPV program. With the fact that it is to replace the brigade-level M113s (and performance capabilities of A: Great question. As I mentioned earlier, we have sat down with our that vehicle) how important is it that this program stay on track? acquisition partners and our higher headquarters to discuss every system, where we see shortfalls and what steps we need to take to A: In 2007, the Army terminated the M113 armored personnel carminimize the impact of these shortfalls. We use the same process with rier program as it had reached the end of its useful life in our curemerging systems, like the AMPV and the JLTV. It is in our collective rent brigade combat team structure. The M113 was a workhorse for interests to discuss sustainment costs of a system early in the acquisithe Army for over 50 years and it no longer was able to expand and tion process. So, program management is talking to the contracting, modernize. It needed upgrades to offset ineffective force protection; 4 | MLF 9.4 | TACOM Life Cycle Management Command

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TACOM Life Cycle Management COMMAND budget and logistics requirements needed to develop a life cycle cost estimate that tracks everything that goes into a program from cradle to grave. This includes a work breakdown structure and all costs associated with a system through all milestone events and transition to sustainment.

Given the current fiscal environment, AMPV must be affordable. It must be based on sound programmatic decision-making and cost analysis to include sustainment costs. It must meet the requirements set forth by Army, including force protection, survivability, mobility and power, which continue to be critical performance drivers for the program. The commonality that the selected solutions has with the Bradley family of vehicles as well as the M109A7 Paladin howitzer decrease our logistical TACOM and the three program executive offices aligned with it are responsible for 65 percent of every item in a brigade combat team. footprint and increase sustainability across [Photo courtesy of U.S. Army] the armored brigade combat teams (ABCT) supply chain and just-in-time deliveries. Material requirements formation. planning within LMP, backwards plans part support based on the The increased capability and versatility of the AMPV allows the end item delivery schedule. The system is able to backwards plan ABCT to take full advantage of its force protection, survivability, using the routes and bill of materials that are associated with the mobility, situational awareness and sustainability by providing a project. Material requirements planning will tell the installations highly survivable and mobile platform to accomplish operational when they need to order parts to insure they are at the line when support missions. Units equipped with the AMPV will be able to they are needed to meet the production schedule. move as rapidly as the supported primary combat vehicles during Another example of how we maximize the use of technology is unified land operations over multiple terrain sets. The combined an enhancement of the Logistic Modernization Program referred to protection and automotive performance capabilities of the AMPV as the expanded industrial base (EIB). When fully implemented, EIB will enable units to operate more securely and efficiently in the will help maximize the output and workload at all five of TACOM’s same operational environment as the combat elements. depots and arsenals—as well as at the Army Materiel Command’s other 12 organic industrial base sites. EIB will provide for automaQ: At what capacity are the depots performing? Do you have the tion of industrial base shop floors, thereby diminishing reliance right number of facilities and what are you doing to maximize their on paper documentation, manual data collection and complicated output and workload? processes. By leveraging automated information technology and best business practices, EIB will allow for better collaboration, A: TACOM is experiencing the same draw down challenges as the enterprisewide visibility, and real-time information access. other services, which heightens the importance of maximizing capacity. Some of the causes of these challenges include the reducQ: How much FMS work are you involved with? Do you see more tion in requirements; lower funding levels and reduced overseas conopportunities in this area? tingency operations funding and weapon system reset at the depots.

As you may know, TACOM’s organic base consists of five instalA: During the first two quarters of this fiscal year, we have more lations with their own unique capabilities as arsenals and depots. than doubled our business from last year. Sales look promising and There are three depots: Anniston Army Depot for combat vehicles, we will easily quadruple business this year. We are managing 40 assault bridging, artillery and small caliber weapons; Red River more cases than at the end of last fiscal year.

Army Depot for Bradley fighting vehicles, tactical wheeled vehicles, Obvious opportunities exist in overseas contingency operamultiple launch rocket systems, small emplacement excavators tions with new equipping strategies for both Afghanistan and Iraq and rubber products; and Sierra Army Depot for water purification through FMS. Our excess defense article transfers have sped up to and fuel storage/distribution systems. There are two arsenals: Rock our highest volumes ever and we see that continuing over the next Island Arsenal Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center for few years. Opportunities for resetting this equipment and providing forward repair system and shop equipment contact maintenance, sustainment support are there. Overall, the FMS case load at the add-on armor and foundry operations; and Watervliet Arsenal Joint TACOM LCMC is promising.

Manufacturing and Technology Center for cannons and mortars.

TACOM has a government-owned, contract operated facility in Q: What are the challenges, especially in a tight budget world, Lima, Ohio—the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center. to become more green, less fossil fuel dependent and reduce the The Logistic Modernization Program (LMP) one tool we use amount spent of fuel and energy? to maximize our efficiencies, plays a crucial role in supporting the www.MLF-kmi.com

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TACOM Life Cycle Management COMMAND A: One of the challenges is that our systems have older technology. Old engines are not as efficient and therefore typically use more fuel. Yes, newer commercial engines are more efficient, but emission control technologies do not allow the use of some military fuels. Some U.S. manufacturers are unwilling to change the assembly line to remove emissions equipment for the low-volume military applications we require. In this case, the Army would have to resort to the use of export-certified engines that do not have emissions controls. If we went this route within the Army, they would not be consistently available worldwide.

So, we are looking at several solutions to include pursuing advanced propulsion systems that are lighter in weight with efficient transmissions, novel engine designs and improved thermal management. We are looking at vehicle electrification technology that will facilitate reduced energy consumption and the development of lightweight, compact, high-power auxiliary power units (APU). These APUs will make it possible to generate electrical power while the vehicle is stationary, eliminating the need for the engine to idle for long periods—saving fuel and helping to make us greener.

We are also looking at the development of lower mass vehicles to replace the vehicle fleet. Since vehicle mass is the overriding factor in determining fuel consumption, we are looking at new materials and new vehicle systems that can result in lighterweight and space efficient designs. Through partnerships with the automotive industry, the Army is investigating the use of fuel cell technologies that utilize hydrogen gas for power and completely eliminate the need for fossil fuels. Such technologies could greatly reduce fuel use in our tactical wheeled vehicles as well as remote forward operating bases and facilities.

A non-scientific approach toward altering the Army’s use of fuels is through improved training and advance planning. It is as simple as changing poor driving habits, reducing unnecessary miles driven, eliminating engine idling, reducing driving speeds and monitoring fuel consumption. These are just some solutions that we are currently looking at.

Q: Over time, the Army has acquired a number of inventory, accounting, communications and other IT-related systems. How would you characterize the TACOM LCMC’s plan to reduce the system duplication, eliminate systems that have trouble communicating with other systems inside and outside of the TACOM LCMC, and in general streamline the command’s IT networks?

Do you have funding for any of this?

A: The Army has implemented a number of accounting and ITrelated systems specialized applications that support TACOM’s mission and are in line with the Department of Defense’s and Department of Army’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) consolidation and integration efforts. Over the past several years, we have proactively pursued the reduction or consolidation of a number of systems, which will help to eliminate duplication and make it easier for our systems to work together inside, outside and across the enterprise.

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of scale. The platform also allows TACOM to consolidate a legacy portfolio of technologies into a common and consistent hardware and software platform.

We are also participating in several commercial-off-theshelf, best-in-class ERP solutions aimed at reforming the Army’s national-level logistics and financial systems and business processes. The Logistics Modernization Program (LMP) and the General Fund Enterprise Business System have replaced several TACOM information systems. As the Army moves forward with the deployment of LMP 2, additional systems unique to TACOM will be absorbed and further cost savings will be recognized.

With budget uncertainties and complications from sequestration and competing Army funding priorities, we will continue to look at ways to upgrade our accounting, communications, IT and logistics systems to ensure that we are effectively managing our resources and ultimately saving taxpayer dollars.

Q: Any closing thoughts?

A: In closing, I wish to share a few thoughts that may offer some insight into the likely challenges facing TACOM in the near and long-term future as the command works to meet the needs of the 21st century warfighter.

There is no evidence that the current era of persistent conflict is ebbing. In fact, history shows us that there continues to be more conflicts in the last 20 years than the previous twenty years.

That means that the Army will need a full range of capabilities and resources in order to meet a wide spectrum of potential challenges and conflicts—and win. No single system or approach can provide the flexibility and effectiveness the Army will need in future years.

We know that some of our capabilities bring more to the fight in a conventional warfare scenario, while other capabilities have unquestioned value in counterinsurgency operations.

Perhaps the biggest challenge in the near term may be our ability to address the Army’s need to prepare for multiple contingency operations while at the same time rebalancing the force in a reasonable and responsible manner during a time of fiscal restraint. This means we’ll have to look to the past, the present, and the future without binding our people, processes, and products too closely to the way we’ve done things before, the way we’re handling things today, or the way we think things will operate in the future. The past is over the present is constantly changing and we must prepare for an uncertain future.

So how do we prepare for an uncertain future? In the past, we looked inward, but now we have to look at the institution of the Army holistically and as an enterprise. This is why it’s so important that we make enterprise thinking the Army’s—and the TACOM LCMC’s—new norm. As an enterprise, we’re all stakeholders. We’re all accountable. As an Army and as a life cycle management command, we have to provide the best possible products, services and support to our warfighters. And we have to do this while we work to rebalance the Army. This is a tough job, but one that we at Team TACOM LCMC embraces. This command has been at the forefront of Army modernization since its inception. Our workforce is passionate, highly dedicated and motivated to accept this challenge. We look forward to our continued journey of service, dedication and commitment to excellence as we endeavor to support our soldiers who serve our great nation—HOOAH! O www.MLF-kmi.com

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Contract Grows Jobs and Support Levels

Littoral Combat Ship Support General Dynamics NASSCO has been awarded a $24.1 million contract by the U.S. Navy for littoral combat ships (LCS) sustainment execution in support of LCS homeported in or visiting San Diego.

General Dynamics NASSCO is a business unit of General Dynamics.

Under the contract, General Dynamics NASSCO will plan, furnish material and provide support and facilities to maintain and modernize twelve LCS-class ships. This contract covers both variants, Freedom and Independence. These ships are fast, agile, focused-mission platforms designed for

operation in near-shore environments and capable of open-ocean operation.

“General Dynamics NASSCO has proven repair experience with a track record of delivering high-quality maintenance and modernization services to the U.S. Navy,” said David Carver, vice president and general manager of repair at General Dynamics NASSCO. “We look forward to working with the Navy to support the sustainment of the Littoral Combat Ship program.”

The contract has a total potential value of $96 million if all options are exercised.

SupplyCore announced that with the addition of a recent contract award by the U.S. Department of Defense to support the U.S. military’s South Central region, the company has secured more than $1 billion in business during the next five years.

“We are grateful to the Department of Defense for the confidence they have placed in us,” said Peter Provenzano, SupplyCore president and CEO. “We are proud of our associates who continue to help improve supply chain business processes in the spirit of reducing cost without compromising customer service. SupplyCore’s business growth also will allow us to continue its work to enhance our local community by providing more jobs and through reinvesting in our community and in downtown Rockford.”

The company currently has 125 employees and seeks to fill at least 40 additional positions based on its growth.

Logistics Chain Management System The United States Marine Corps (USMC) requires a Logistics Chain Management (LCM) system that will modernize the entire USMC Logistics Architecture and Management capabilities, providing near real-time visibility of retail supply, wholesale supply, equipment maintenance and repair transactions.

The product support required for this system encompasses sustainment and life cycle support, configuration management, data management, information assurance management, service help desk/GCSS-MC Operations Center support, post-deployment system support, logistics support, asset management, reliability/availability, maintainability reporting and enterprise training support.

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and provides the backbone for all logistics information required by the Marine air-ground task force. The current core functionality comes from the modern, web-enabled commercial offthe-shelf enterprise resource planning software developed by Oracle.

GCSS-MC/LCM Increment 1 is registered in the Do) Information Technology Portfolio Repository (DITPR) and DITPR for the Department of the Navy (DITPR-DON)

with DITPR-DON number 20396 and DITPR number 303.

GCSS-MC/LCM was designated an Acquisition Category (ACAT) IAM program with Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) acquisition oversight in July 2004. The rollout of GCSS-MC was planned as several acquisition increments.

GCSS-MC/LCM Increment 1 provides the initial retail-level supply and maintenance capabilities.

Increment 1 is to be delivered in two releases. The first, Release 1.1 (Enterprise capability), completed cutover/delivery in March 2013 and is currently operational in more than 72 locations worldwide and available to more than 35,000 users.

Currently under way, Release 1.1.1 (Interim Deployable capability), consisting of mobile field services and Enterprise Automatic Task Organization, represents the final addition to Increment 1 prior to reaching its full deployment milestone.

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Maintaining Globally Responsive and Regionally Engaged Support Major General Kevin O’Connell Commander U.S. Army Sustainment Command Major General Kevin O’Connell became the commanding general, Army Sustainment Command and Rock Island Arsenal, Ill., on Aug. 21, 2014. O’Connell is a native of Clinton, Md., and a graduate of High Point College, N.C. He was commissioned through Army ROTC in 1982.

His command assignments include the 289th General Supply Company, Fort Hood, Texas; 11th Armored Cavalry Regimental Support Squadron, National Training Center, Fort Irwin, Calif.; 1st Infantry Division Support Command, Kitzingen, Germany; 1st Sustainment Brigade, Fort Riley, Kan., and Operation Iraqi Freedom, Taji, Iraq; and Joint Munitions Command, Rock Island Arsenal.

O’Connell’s previous key staff assignments include inspector general and later aide-de-camp to the commanding general, Fifth U.S. Army, Fort Sam Houston, Texas; support operations officer, 123d Main Support Battalion, Operation Joint Endeavor, Lukavac, Bosnia and Slavonski Brod, Croatia; chief, Division Materiel Management Center, 1st Armored Division, Bad Kreuznach, Germany; senior logistics trainer, National Training Center, Fort Irwin; executive officer to the commanding general, Army Materiel Command, Fort Belvoir, Va.; and Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, U.S. Army Forces Command, Fort Bragg, N.C. He has served in two Joint assignments in the U.S. Pacific Command, first as chief of supply and services in the J-4 and later as the director, Logistics, Engineering and Security Assistance, J-4, both at Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii.

He is a graduate of the Quartermaster Basic and Advanced Courses at Fort Lee, Va.; the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.; the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Va.; and the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., where he earned a master’s degree in strategic studies.

Q: Major General O’Connell, tell us about how the missions of the U.S. Army Sustainment Command have evolved over time.

A: We are proud of the Army Sustainment Command’s history and excited about opportunities in the future. The Army Sustainment Command of today can trace its roots back to the 1990s, when the Army announced the “Revolution in Military Affairs.” The goal was to create forces that could deploy quickly from CONUS-based platforms. In response, the Army’s logisticians had to revolutionize the way they did business, and so went to a more distributionbased logistics system that used automation to better anticipate requirements and move supplies to needed locations.

Following Operation Desert Storm, the Army decided to centralize the management of its War Reserves—now called Army Prepositioned Stocks, or APS—and to expand APS locations from www.MLF-kmi.com

Europe and Korea to Southwest Asia and afloat aboard ships at sea.

The U.S. Army Industrial Operations Command (IOC), a predecessor to ASC headquartered at Rock Island Arsenal, was assigned the APS mission. The IOC had a global footprint and was larger than any other two-star logistics command in the Army.

In 2000, IOC was renamed the Operations Support Command (OSC) and designated as Army Materiel Command’s (AMC’s) Single Face to the Field, integrating AMC’s strategic depth down to the Army’s tactical levels. Along with APS, OSC gained three new missions: Command of the AMC Forward elements, the Logistics Assistance Program (LAP) and the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP). Under this configuration, OSC went to war in Afghanistan in 2001. By the end of that year, OSC oversaw the establishment of LOGCAP sites and the deployment of LAP assets in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

In March 2003, Operation Iraqi Freedom began and the ground forces deployed for the operation were almost completely equipped with APS equipment. Soon after, LOGCAP base camps were set up throughout Iraq.

In July 2003, OSC was disestablished and replaced by the Army Field Support Command (AFSC). While the name change did not result in any immediate change in mission, it did mark the start of a series of changes that would culminate in the creation of ASC in 2006.

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AFSC oversaw both the Logistics Support Element-Iraq and LSE-Southwest Asia. The two LSEs coordinated all AMC elements in the theater and managed a number of missions primarily performed by contractors, including LOGCAP, maintenance facilities and upgrades, new equipment fielding, theater-provided equipment and, by early 2006, redeployment property accountability teams.

The command and control structure for LAP also expanded, and our stateside logistics assistance offices (LAOs) were prepared for overseas deployments. The AMC element that supported Stryker units was assigned to AFSC, and AMC CONUS-East and CONUS-West were formed to improve command and control of LAOs in the United States. Meanwhile, the names of AFSC’s colonel-commanded units were changed to Army field support brigades (AFSB), and these eventually became numbered modified table of organization and equipment (MTOE) units, the 401st through 407th AFSBs. ASC was created as a new command—which retained all of its old missions—and set up its Distribution Management Center to manage the distribution-based logistics system required by modularity. ASC also created brigade logistics support teams, which were embedded with the BCTs to provide access to AMC services down to the tactical level. ASC also managed the reset functions of Army force generation, left-behind equipment and pre-deployment training equipment.

In 2011, the DMC became the executing agent for the Army’s Logistics Materiel Integrator. This mission relies on advanced automation to direct the movement and redistribution of assets across the Army.

In 2013, the Directorates of Logistics transferred from the Installation Management Command to AMC and were renamed the logistics readiness centers. With the addition of the LRCs, ASC became present on every post, camp, and station in the Army, making us the most globally dispersed two-star command in the Army. We are now the key player in end-to-end logistics support.

ASC has been at the forefront of revolutionary changes to a logistics system that is vastly different from the one in place when I first joined the Army in 1982, and we’ll lead the way as military logistics continues to evolve.

Q: Summarize how ASC is structured around the globe today and what you see in the future for structure and missions.

A: Like the Army and AMC, ASC is globally responsive and regionally engaged. To support today’s home-based deployable Army that employs principles described in the recently published Army Operating Concept, “Win in a Complex World,” ASC has mission command consisting of: • Seven Army field support brigades located in the United States, Korea, Germany and Kuwait.

• Eighteen Army field support battalions located in the United States, Korea, Japan, Germany, Italy, Kuwait and Afghanistan.

• A distribution management center that performs Army Lead Materiel Integrator Class VII distribution and redistribution, maintenance management, strategic mobility and management of demand supported supplies.

• Seventy-one logistics readiness centers and Army support agencies in support of joint basing.

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• Four Army pre-positioned stocks sets at 11 ground locations and one afloat aboard six different ships, supporting two infantry brigade combat teams, two army brigade combat teams, four sustainment brigades, one fires brigade and 37 operational project stocks.

• Fifteen logistics support teams (predominantly aligned with Training and Doctrine Command installations).

• LOGCAP operations in support of U.S. Africa Command and U.S. Central Command.

As AMC’s operational arm for a “Ready Army,” we are resourced to staff these organizations to accomplish ASC’s global logistics responsibilities of maintenance, supply, transportation and services, with approximately 700 military personnel, 6,700 Department of the Army civilians and 35,000 contractors in 32 states and 19 countries. This level of effort is charged to deliver logistics support for home station support, CONUS training, OCONUS regionally aligned force training and contingency operations.

We are in a period of change and, over the next 36 months, we envision organizational change for this command in at least four areas: • As conflict in Southwest Asia evolves and we continue to rebalance to the Pacific, we will case the colors of the 402d Army Field Support Brigade in Kuwait in July and reestablish the 402d as an AFSB in Hawaii in August in direct support of U.S. Army Pacific. The 401st AFSB will continue to support the U.S. Army Central Command and U.S. Central Command with three battalions. Relocation of the 402d will also entail redrawing support lines for the three CONUS-based AFSBs. • Based on Army decisions, we expect to add equipment activity sets and additional sites to the APS footprint. The first additions are ongoing over the next year in the European Activity Set (EAS) and Korea Enduring Equipment Set (KEES). Both builds have started with the establishment of an armored brigade combat team in both locations.

• In October 2016, ASC’s LRC footprint will grow by two when Joint Base Lewis–McChord, Wash., and Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras, are welcomed into the ASC family. Kwajalein Atoll is scheduled to join in Fiscal Year 2017 or 2018.

• Continued expansion of the APS program will require us to adapt to new locations with additional growth.

Finally, we are involved in early planning with Army Materiel Command on consolidating AMC’s field-level sustainment activities.

Q: You have outlined your enduring priorities as the ASC commander; please expand on them.

A: I outlined my priorities the day I took command of ASC on Aug. 21, 2014, and they will remain while I am in command. My enduring priorities—and the enduring priorities of the Army Sustainment Command—are as follows: • SHARP (the Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention program).

• Supporting deployed forces.

• Providing globally responsive readiness.

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• Taking care of people and families.

• Strengthening the command climate.

If you look at the priorities of the Chief of Staff of the Army, General Raymond Odierno, and my boss, General Dennis Via from the Army Materiel Command, you will see that my priorities are nested within theirs.

SHARP remains the Army’s number one priority. I recently attended a SHARP summit in Washington, D.C. This area is getting the attention it needs from the highest levels of leadership; however, it remains a complex problem. Within the Army Sustainment Command, we have very positive indicators and very low numbers of incidents when it comes to SHARP, but that doesn’t mean we can rest on our laurels. Sometimes, you don’t know what you don’t know, especially in an area as sensitive as this. We will stay focused on preventing sexual harassment and sexual assault and, in the event these crimes are committed, maintain a climate where victims are comfortable with and confident in their leadership to report incidents.

ASC places a high priority on supporting deployed forces, and has gained a lot of experience in this mission area since our formation.

Our brigades and battalions are forward-deployed with our warfighting units, providing them with field-level logistics support. We are in constant contact with these units from our global headquarters at Rock Island Arsenal, Ill., and respond to their needs very rapidly.

Providing globally responsive readiness means being able to react quickly to any contingency. We operate in a fast-changing, complex global security environment, so we need to do our part in maintaining the readiness of units that are already deployed and units that may be deployed when and if the need arises. The lead time may be very short, so we must always be prepared to respond. This has become more challenging at a time when we face budget cuts, but we must do the very best we can with the resources we are provided.

The final three priorities—building and empowering leaders, taking care of people and families and strengthening the command climate—are somewhat tied together. They are also a critical component of our ability to perform our global mission, because people are our most valuable and valued asset, and they must be given every opportunity to perform to the best of their abilities and make positive contributions.

ASC’s leaders at all levels must be provided with the latitude to conduct operations within their areas of responsibility and to get the help and support they need from higher levels when needed. We also need to grow leaders from within and provide mentorship and training to all who are interested in attaining positions of leadership.

This is only possible if we take the time to care for our people and their families and if we foster a strong command climate.

Those of us who hold positions of authority need to regard everyone on an individual level and constantly ask ourselves some difficult questions. Is everyone being treated with dignity and respect? Are all people free of discrimination on and off the job? Is everyone being given purposeful work? Do they have opportunities to advance? Are promotions and awards being given fairly, solely based on merit? Are conflicts being resolved equitably?

A positive command climate doesn’t just happen; it requires constant questioning and constant monitoring. I believe that establishing and sustaining a positive command climate is probably the most important thing I do as the ASC commanding general, because when the climate is right, everything else tends to fall in place. People will want to come to work, be a valuable member of the 16 | MLF 9.4

team and do all they can to make the team succeed. All of our oars need to be in the water rowing hard in the same direction, and that’s how we can achieve excellence in performing ASC’s complex and very challenging mission.

Q: You mentioned Army pre-positioned stocks as being a foundation mission of ASC’s beginning; please expand on APS and how the creation of regionally aligned activity sets play a role in that program.

A: When I briefed General Via on my 90-day assessment of the command, he said ASC was juggling a lot of glass balls, but APS was the Waterford crystal. Being a proud Irish-American, I can relate to that.

APS gives combatant commanders a strategic advantage by having equipment forward positioned so that they don’t have to combat the “tyranny of distance” to move equipment to some of the places in the world that the Army is likely to operate.

APS effectively reduces the initial amount of strategic lift required to support CONUS-based power projection and would sustain the warfighter until sea lines of communications are established. APS consists of strategically positioned worldwide warfighting stocks afloat and ashore that contribute to an agile, strategic stance by optimizing expeditionary power projection. Previously, there were four categories of APS: • Prepositioned sets (brigade combat teams, separate units and sustainment brigades).

• Operational projects equipment above MTOE for specific operations plans.

• Army war reserve sustainment stocks to support operations until wartime rates of supply are established.

• War reserve stocks for allies, i.e., U.S. assets intended to support allied forces; our APS stocks currently support two infantry brigade combat teams, two army brigade combat teams, four sustainment brigades, one fires brigade and 37 operational project stocks.

Normally, APS sets are stored in climate-controlled warehouses owned by Department of the Army (not the combatant command).

The intent was for the Department of the Army to issue the release of APS to support a combatant commander’s operations plan or a contingency. This would provide a theater reserve in a high state of readiness.

Activity sets are a new category of APS that allow for equipment sets to be primarily dedicated to support unit rotations for exercises and theater security cooperation. This expanded role of activity sets more closely resembles theater provided equipment use in recent contingencies, allowing for greater operational flexibility in a power projection environment. Activity sets provide a new Army capability, mixing 21st-century agility with the economy of a reduced logistics footprint while conserving strategic lift. This major step forward combines Army lessons learned methodology with supply chain management philosophy, providing timely capability at minimum expense.

Q: Given that Army Sustainment Command executes its missions with perhaps the largest portfolio of logistics management service contracts in the Army, can you provide some details on the programs and initiatives your command has put in place to manage these efforts? www.MLF-kmi.com

A: ASC has a relatively small soldier and Department of the Army civilian workforce. The primary way we execute our mission is through service contracts. Roughly 70 percent of our annual budget goes towards service contracts. It is very important that we get this right to achieve mission accomplishment while being good stewards of resources.

Our primary objective in developing acquisition approaches is to incorporate Army strategic planning guidance, Army command priorities and better buying power initiatives into all our acquisition strategies. As a result, we have enhanced the quality of support we provide to the force while significantly improving the efficiency and effectiveness in our acquisition of logistics management services. We have two major acquisition programs, the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) and the Enhanced Army Global Logistics Enterprise (EAGLE) program, where we have partnered with our supporting contracting agencies to put in place contracts that allow us to achieve our mission.

The distinction between the “program” and the “contracts” we use to implement our programs is critical. The objectives of the programs are relatively constant. However, the contracts we use to meet these program objectives must constantly be evaluated and, if necessary, evolve to ensure they meet mission objectives.

LOGCAP has been a program since 1985. It’s a Department of the Army (DA) regulatory program that augments the force by providing a service capability to meet externally driven operational requirements for rapid contingency augmentation support.

This mission has remained relatively consistent since the inception of the program. To achieve this mission, numerous contracts, including LOGCAP I, II, III and IV, were awarded with strategies that best fit the operational requirements during those time periods. Now, as we see shifts in mission requirements, we are in the process of evolving our contracts to meet combatant commanders’ needs. We are currently in the process of moving towards the next generation of LOGCAP, using lessons learned to improve the efficiency of that program, and I anticipate we will see resulting cost avoidances.

The EAGLE program was established about three years ago when AMC and ASC took over the logistics readiness centers, formerly known as directorates of logistics, or DOLs, from the Installation Management Command. As we analyzed how those supply, maintenance and transportation services were being provided, it was immediately evident we had significant duplication of effort, and 73 different sets of standards and business processes.

To fix this problem, we developed an acquisition strategy to leverage strategic sourcing initiatives and put in place a contract that eliminated redundancy and inefficiency across the enterprise.

That effort has paid big dividends, as we have achieved a 20to 25-percent cost avoidance and a 51-percent reduction in the number of contracts since the EAGLE program was put in place.

We continue to add task orders in line with our program objectives and schedules and expect similar results.

Internally, we have taken on a life cycle approach to our services contracts. In the pre-award phase, we have new rigor in our requirements approval process. We use a contract acquisition review board to validate large requirements prior to exercising an option year. For new requirements, or when a contract comes up to be re-competed, we use multifunctional integrated process teams to develop acquisition strategies which are reviewed and approved by the command’s acquisition strategy review panel. www.MLF-kmi.com

The panel is made up of Senior Executive Service members from within our command and supporting contracting agencies.

The other pre-award emphasis has been moving towards standardized performance work statements (PWS) and quality assurance surveillance plans (QASP) facilitated by the Acquisition Requirements Roadmap Tool (ARRT) available from the Defense Acquisition University. Though this may sound somewhat insignificant, building a quality PWS and QASP is like building a solid foundation for your house. The PWS and QASP are the key components of a quality performance-based service contract, and also have the effects of promoting competition, streamlining documentation requirements and expediting staff reviews.

The other life cycle phase we have placed renewed focus on is the post-award activities phase. Like the rest of the Department of Defense, we recognize that a well-defined requirements document supported by a well-written contract does not guarantee the Army will derive best value for the dollars spent. Following up on contractor performance is equally important. We are in the process of reviewing who we have serving as our contracting officer representatives and contracting officer technical representatives. I want to ensure they have the right technical and acquisition competencies, and most importantly, the time and automation tools to properly monitor, assess and document contractor performance in order to reap the benefits of our performance-based services contracts.

Lastly, as we began to review our services contracts processes, we realized we needed to strengthen our services contract management. ASC established a new organization that will develop core business acumen specific to services contracts, and which can serve as a command liaison between our requiring activities and our supporting contracting agencies. Last year, we established the Contract Management Office. We subsequently aligned the EAGLE Business Office and the Logistics Management Services portfolio manager to this office, and placed the office under the LOGCAP Directorate as a natural partner to LOGCAP. The Contract Management Office has already begun to establish a programmatic approach towards managing ASC’s services contracts and has recently begun to look outwards to other commands’ logistics services contracts to seek opportunities to partner and leverage strategic sourcing vehicles. The Contract Management Office is also the ASC hub to perform the horizontal governance tasks in support of AMC’s Command Service Executive and ultimately the Army’s Senior Service Manager.

To summarize, we have adopted a life cycle approach to our service acquisitions, ensuring pre-award, award and post-award efforts receive equal emphasis, and we are implementing the tenets of Better Buying Power using a multi-functional team approach. This twopronged effort ensures ASC obtains the best value for the funds we commit to services contracts while still supporting small business and other socio-economic goals that our leaders and citizens have deemed important.

Q: The way the Army conducts Materiel Management has changed.

What role does ASC play in Materiel Management, and how does AMC’s role of being designated as the Lead Materiel Integrator for the Army play into that?

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significantly. We no longer have corps materiel management centers (CMMC) or division materiel management centers (DMMC) that provided all those direct support management functions. I think we are still set about right for combat or contingency operations, but we are seeing challenges at home station in garrison.

I don’t see CMMCs or DMMCs coming back in a downsizing Army, so commanders at various levels are having to organize to meet the materiel management needs in an Army where a lot of equipment is moving from unit to unit due to reorganizations, inactivations, modernization, etc. Leveraging the expeditionary sustainment commands and sustainment brigades to manage materiel will be very important as we move forward.

ASC’s role has continuously evolved over the past four years to meet requirements resulting from emerging Army equipping priorities. When ASC assumed the Lead Materiel Integrator (LMI) role in March 2011, the Army was engaged in full-spectrum operations such as simultaneous offensive, defensive, and stability or civil support operations, in support of the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters of operation. Since then, the Army has undergone a brigade combat team reorganization and supports specific regions around the world with regionally aligned forces. In addition, the Army continues to modernize its formations and pursue a high state of equipping readiness across its formations.

As the executing agent for LMI, ASC has led the way and is fully engaged in the distribution, redistribution, and divestiture of equipment in support of the initiatives I mentioned.

I foresee that ASC will remain responsible for executing the LMI concept. Our processes and business rules will have to adjust to emerging demands as we continue to support the Army’s reshaping and modernization efforts and to meet Department of Defense and Army equipping requirements.

We recently conducted a materiel management summit in order to discuss roles, responsibilities, processes and authorities for materiel management. The summit allowed us to synchronize stakeholders in a unified forum in order to develop the way ahead for improving readiness, eliminating potential redundancies, mitigating gaps and achieving efficiencies.

Q: You gained management of the logistics readiness centers two years ago. Tell us about the progress that’s been made under the mission command of ASC and what challenges you see ahead.

A: These logistics readiness centers provide all the supply, maintenance and transportation services required to run an installation, and enable commanders to conduct home station training, deploy to combat training centers, and deploy to conduct training and operations worldwide. We have made tremendous progress in the standardization of tables of distribution and allowances and bringing staffing of the logistics readiness centers in line with emerging and future mission requirements.

We have also standardized many contract performance work statements across our mission support areas such as dining facility operations, laundry and dry cleaning requirements, local shortdistance moves, and direct-procured moves. We have also made tremendous progress in codifying support relationships and service expectations with our strategic partners through the extensive use of basic levels of service definitions and memorandums of agreement for LRC support between Army Materiel Command and the Army service component commands, Army commands and direct reporting units.

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We have been successful in informing the Army on our enduring and emerging requirements and matching our annual budget to support those requirements. We have seen significant progress as we transform the installation support mission from an Army Force Generation model to a CONUS-based force with a focus on Army power projection platforms and enduring support to the generating force’s training mission.

The challenges are opportunities to continue to shape the LRCs into the single point on each installation where customers can get access to the entire power of the Army Materiel Command. We have exceptional civilian, military and contractor personnel who can rapidly adapt to challenges. While there will be future budget and workforce constraints as the Army postures itself for 2020 and beyond, I am confident we will be able to continually adapt our LRCs to meet any mission requirements.

Q: ASC’s missions directly affect unit readiness. Please expand on your command’s efforts to assure the highest readiness rates.

A: We support unit readiness through two mission sets: First, the command’s seven Army field support brigades are our mission command elements and are in direct support to the field by integrating acquisition, and technology and delivering logistics support. At OCONUS locations, the AFSBs are aligned with the ASCCs, and in CONUS, the alignment is with I Corps, III Corps and XVIII Airborne Corps. The AFSBs are commanded by centrally selected colonels, and within the seven brigades we have a mix of capabilities in the areas of maintenance, supply, services, and transportation. To execute this logistics support, the subordinate units of an AFSB are brigade logistic support teams (assigned to all BCTs and CABs), APS storage sites, Army field support battalions and logistics readiness centers sites. You’ll find the battalions are either in direct support of divisions or performing mission support at the APS sites. Our formations are located in 19 countries and 32 states and composed of approximately 700 military, 6,700 DA civilians and approximately 35,000 contractors.

It is important to note that the AFSBs are modular and we can plug and play with AMC’s LCMCs (life cycle management commands), the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology, and our strategic partners to add any logistics capability required to support a commander.

Secondly, the Distribution Management Center is charged with managing Army-level equipment distribution, redistribution, divestiture of equipment and field level reset in the Army’s force generation process. This mission set has the goal of increasing equipment on hand in accordance with Army equipping priorities.

This effort is referred to as the Army’s Lead Materiel Integrator, and the DMC’s efforts have resulted in the Army achieving the highest equipping readiness levels since August 2005. In FY 2014 alone, the DMC was responsible for synchronizing the redistribution of more than 240,000 pieces of equipment resulting in $2.4 billion in cost avoidance for the Army while concurrently reflecting increased equipment on hand ratings of Army formations. The DMC is in full support of brigade combat team inactivation/reorganization, the Aviation Restructure Initiative (ARI), the Korea Enduring Equipment Set (KEES) and the European Activity Set (EAS) builds.

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Q: How do you enhance your operations and business methodologies to keep in step with the DoD logistics enterprise?

A: We manage supply chains for the Defense Logistics Agency, delivering material totaling about $600 million annually. As DLA’s business systems have evolved, we have enhanced the systems we use to perform supply chain management to interface with DLA’s Enterprise Business System. Our interfaces provide our customers with near real-time information of our supply chain performance.

In supporting fielded products such as command, control and communications equipment mounted on ground vehicles, we have adopted and embraced the concept of a “universal field service representative.” We train them to support a variety of equipment from multiple OEMs, thus reducing the logistics footprint and lowering the cost of field support to the warfighter.

Q: What are your primary strategic goals for the next 12 months?

A: We are focused on continuing the enhancement of our IT systems that support our supply chain management and product support services. Our services are seamless 20 | MLF 9.4

improving our logistics IT systems to meet our military customers’ evolving needs. Our turnkey solutions enable us to support systems providing well over 90 percent operational availability, to meet supply demands with over 99 percent fill rate, and have proven effective in reducing inventory by up to 55 percent.

and customizable across the full life cycle of sustainment. Leveraging these systems and continuing our track record of excellent performance allows us to continue to grow our logistics support to the military at the depot and in the field. We are particularly interested in customer engagements on performancebased terms such as performance-based logistics (PBL) support.

Q: What are some examples of how you work with the military?

A: Our engagements stress side-by-side collaboration with our military customers to ensure there is no production work stoppages. A couple of examples are: We provide embedded offsite garrison ground logistics services to the general staff and major subordinate elements of Marine Special Operations Command (MARSOC) across all six functional areas of logistics. We supplement MARSOC’s force structure/manpower across numerous critical combat support services—102 employees provide supply administration and warehousing, transportation/ embarkation, maintenance of various Marine Corps organic and special operations peculiar systems, ammunition control, and armory support.

For our prime vendor contracts with DLA, we provide bench stock at Army and Navy depots. Our material control specialists use our integrated supply chain management systems to ensure depot have the material at hand when needed to support their maintenance and repair production lines.

Q: How would you characterize SAIC’s performance in innovation and efficiency?

A: We continually focus on innovation and efficiency in keeping with SAIC’s spirit, redefining ingenuity. We are invested in

Q: How important are industry partnerships in meeting your corporate objectives?

A: Industry partnerships are vital to providing sustainment support to the military. Our approach to product support includes lockstep collaboration with OEMs and suppliers to ensure system availability, including reliability or performance improvements that our OEM partners provide.

Q: Are there improvements that would streamline the contracting process?

A: We’d like to see more open government and industry engagement prior to RFP release. Collaboration results in technical performance requirements, pricing and terms for contracts that are clear, realistic and fair to industry, with a goal of achieving the lowest life cycle costs to the customer.

RFPs without prior industry input require multiple rounds of amendments to resolve ambiguities and industry concerns.

Techniques such as low price, technically acceptable evaluations and reverse auctions can be inappropriately used and result in an award decision that has greater risk and ultimately more cost to the government.

We embrace contracting on performance based terms. PBL is advantageous to both the military and industry. Under PBL contracts, the customer defines what is truly important to their mission, and the provider, whether organic or contractor, is free to bring to bear the best of their skills, technologies and know-how to achieve that performance. That means warfighters’ weapons and support systems are available more and operate more reliably. The PBL provider benefits from the freedom to choose the best approach to meeting the performance by gaining efficiencies. Truly a win-win scenario. O dale.w.winstead@saic.com www.MLF-kmi.com

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