Force Multiplying Technologies for Logistics Support to Military Operations (2014) / Chapter Skim
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11 Findings and Recommendations
11 Findings and Recommendations
Pages 154-180
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The subsequent Key Recommendations follow the structure of the report and are essentially equally important. They address technologies, operating procedures to include resourcing, decision-making, education, joint and special operations support.
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Key Recommendation 3. The Army should strongly support continued development and fielding of a portfolio of promising technologies to reduce fuel and energy demand, including acceleration of the improved turbine engine program and more fuel-efficient engines for the M1 Abrams and the M2 Bradley or their replacements, recognizing that it will take success in several areas to reduce the overall demand.
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Autonomous vehicle technologies offer a significant opportunity to automate military operations in an effort to improve logistics operations. Unmanned and remote-controlled helicopters and precision air drop systems can significantly reduce the demand for ground-based resupply of forward areas in high-risk or limited-access situations.
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Key Recommendation 10. To ensure that the Army Logistics Enterprise Systems is fully implemented and operated efficiently over its life, the Army should provide constant resource and organizational support for the Army Enterprise Systems Integration Program, the Global Combat Support System-Army, and the Logistics Modernization Program, even after full implementation of the initial systems and related
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Logistics Decision Support Key Finding 12. Modeling and simulation and systems analysis capabilities in support of Army logistics are insufficient to evaluate, compare, and contrast various S&T initiatives and their respective impacts on both the force structure alternatives currently under consideration and the outcomes across the spectrum of operations.
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Logistics Support of Special Operations Key Finding 16. Based on lessons learned from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, the Army's new thrust to become more expeditionary, and the additional focus on geopolitical areas beyond the Middle East, an extraordinary opportunity has arisen for the Army and Special Operations Command to jointly revisit and redefine their working relationships in the areas of logistics and sustainment for their mutual benefit.
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Taking Advantage of Technology Innovation Key Finding 17. Joint, interagency, intergovernmental, multinational, nongovernmental, and commercial organizations remain heavily involved in material development and technology innovation in areas directly relevant to Army logistics operations and sustainment goals.
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Training soldiers in tactical units to perform water quality testing and providing them with suitably simple field equipment would enhance the timely production of safe water in the field. Recommendation 3-5.
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Fuel and Energy Finding 3-12. The committee believes that the Improved Turbine Engine Program will provide significant reductions in aircraft fuel consumption and increases in aircraft engine efficiencies.
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The Improved Turbine Engine Program is developing an engine with 25 percent greater fuel efficiency. The M1 uses a turbine engine.
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Precision munitions offer the potential for significant reductions in munition expenditures and qualitative improvements in effectiveness. A reduction in munitions expended also has benefits in other areas, such as a reduction in fuel used to transport munitions and in the number of convoys necessary to do so.
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Finding 3-32. Small radionuclide power sources could significantly reduce the battery logistics demand and the number of batteries soldiers must carry.
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The three planned classes of the Maneuver Support Vessel are an important step forward in Army landing craft capabilities. It is vital that these improved capabilities be introduced into the Army as soon as possible.
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Mobility Ashore Finding 4-9. Autonomous vehicle technologies offer a significant opportunity to automate military operations in order to improve logistics operations.
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Also, resupply operations in the last tactical mile could be efficiently performed by autonomous vehicles to reduce the risks to supply vehicle operators. Recommendation 4-9.
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The Army should adopt capabilities offered by both the Intelligent Collaborative Aging Aircraft Spare Parts Support project and the Visualization of Logistics Data project as first steps to incorporate predictive analytics toward a synchronized retrograde closed-loop supply chain. These concepts should be further extended, and adapted as appropriate, to sustain other fleets as well, including ground-based systems.
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The Global Combat Support System-Army and the Logistics Modernization Program form a viable approach to address the issues of in-transit visibility and efficient logistics operations, and to form the basis for the development of robust decision aids. Finding 6-2.
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Recommendation 6-4. The Army should continue its efforts to have Global Combat Support System Army interact with sister Service enterprise resource planning systems.
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Recommendation 6-10. To obtain the full decision support potential of the integrated logistics enterprise, the Army should ensure that enterprise resource planning system data transactions and management information systems are complemented by the operations research capabilities needed to conduct modern analytics.
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Chapter 7 -- Use of Contractors and the Army Reserve Integrating Contractors into Planning and Operations Finding 7-1. Contractors are frequently seen by the combatant commands as outsiders who are brought into military planning only after critical decisions are made rather than beforehand, so they can be part of the planning process.
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The Army G-4, working in conjunction with the individual geographic combatant commands and special operations command (SOCOM) , should determine the feasibility and acceptability of designating each theater Army as the primary logistics and sustainment support organization for special operations forces in each geographic combatant command's area of responsibility.
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If an agreement is reached for the Army to provide primary logistics support to special operations forces (SOF) , the Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC)
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The Army, through the G-4 and with the support of the Combined Arms Support Command, should develop, staff, publish, and annually update an Army strategy for science and technology and research and development that clearly defines the long-range objectives for Army logistics, the programs that will influence the attainment of these objectives, and the actions that will be taken to ensure the close integration of Army logistics enhancement activities with those of the Joint and DoD-wide community. Finding 9-3.
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1999. Reducing the Logistics Burden for the Army After Next: Doing More with Less.
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