Force Multiplying Technologies for Logistics Support to Military Operations (2014) / Chapter Skim
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Over time, the sustainment for U.S. forces fighting these exceptionally long wars came to reflect the logistics support conditions, and their support bases were structured much like those, found in the United States or a partner country outside combat zones.
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. CAMEX 2008 represented the Combined Arms Support Command's assessment of the operational challenges of routine sustainment for the force in 2016 and identified daily resupply needs for a heavy brigade combat team (HBCT)
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investment strategy and illustrative examples of how improved logistics could look in the future. In response to this request, the NRC Board on Army Science and Technology established the Committee on Force Multiplying Technologies for Logistics Support to Military Operations.
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Senior Army leadership should ensure that adequate resources and priorities are given to logistics activities across the spectrum of Army activities, including research and development, analytical support, force structure, military education, and operational planning. Water Key Finding 2.
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The planning of Army production, transportation, maintenance, storage, and expenditure of ammunition are carried out as relatively independent activities that have successfully supported military operations and has improved the efficiency of several elements of the ammunition supply chain. However, there is no indication that the Army is taking advantage of usage data from the past 25 years, experience from changes in weapons technology over past decades, or future opportunities that may exist to lessen the ammunition burden.
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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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Logistics Enterprise Information System Key Finding 10. The Army Logistics Enterprise System, which includes the Army Enterprise Systems Integration Program Hub, the Global Combat Support System-Army (GCSS-A)
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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. (This same condition was identified in the 1999 NRC report Reducing the Logistics Burden for the Army After Next.
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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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Without such a strategy and goals, the Army G-4 and the Army sustainment community are unable to effectively influence critical decisions in S&T and R&D. In addition, there is no explicit effort by the Army logistics community to closely monitor the S&T and R&D activities of the other elements of the Department of Defense or the defense industry to capitalize on S&T and R&D successes in those organizations and to integrate their new capabilities into consideration of a future joint logistics environment.
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