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A Revolution in Military Logistics Revolution in Military Logistics May2000 Table of Contents Revolution in Military Logistics-An Overview ................................................................... RML01 Army Strategic LogisticsPlan-RML Implementation ......................................................... RML02 Phase I of the Revolution in MilitaryLogistics ............................................................ .......... RML03 Phase IIof the Revolution in MilitaryLogistics ..................................................................... RML04 Strategic Responsiveness-Getting to the Fight Faster ......................................................... RML05 CommunicationsTechnologies for the Revolutionin MilitaryLogistics .................................... RML 06 Single LogisticSyst em-Key to Achieving anRML ............................................................ RML07 Army Total Asset Visibility-Achieving Real-TuneLogistics Control ..................................... RML08 DigitalMaint enance Environment-AnOverview ................................................................ RML09 Weapon System Support Concept-An Overview .............................................................. RML10 Deployment Stock Package ................................................................................................ RML11 PotentialBasic ResearchApplications for Reducing Logistics Demand .................................. RML 12 Army RecapitalizationProgram ................................. ......................................................... RML 13 RML Revolution in Military Logistics 00-01 May 2000 Revolution in l\-1ilitary Logistics-An Overview term requires a systems approach to the weapons and equipment we design, and revolutionaryways to TheRevolution in Military Logistics, or RML, transport and sustain people and materiel. represents a continuous process of transformation of The Army established the Combat Support/ Army logistics. In Phase I, Army logistics becomes a Combat Service SupportTransformation Task Force distribution-based system, relying on distribution velocity and precision rather than on redundant mass as one of 10 task forces to implementthe new Army to support strategic responsiveness across the mission vision. The task force is charged withidentifying ways spectrum. It leverages information and commu­ to deploy forces more quickly and sustain more nications technologies to attain near real-time efficiently. Ithas identified requirements for a single situational awareness and improved command and Anny-wide logistics provider; improved battlefield control capabilities. A reengineering of logistics distributiontactics, techniques and procedures; split­ processes, organizational redesign, and increased use based and reach-back operations; total asset visibility of best distribution doctrine are important elements withassured communications; andimproved strategic ofPhase I. mobility, directly supporting deployment and In Phase ll, the Army will exploit technologies sustainment requirements associated withthe initial thatafford increased lethality, survivability,reliability, brigade prototype development effort underway at range and capacity, decreased weight, and reduced FortLewis, Washington. energy consumption. These improvements will be synchronized with further advances in logistics Goals processes, organizations, distribution management, The Revolution in MilitaryLogistics is structured and information systems. around six key tenets, or goals. Thefirst four of these goals should be essentially complete by the end of Support to Army Vision and Combat Support/ Phase I, although future technology will offer Combat Ser-viceSupport Transformation considerable and continuous enhancements. The Army vision establishes a requirement for a The first goal is creating a sit�gle logistics quantum leap in strategic responsiveness through it�formatiotl a11d decisiotl s11pport system. It force projection of lethal, survivable, medium-weight underpins most of what is considered revolutionary brigade forces to any point on the globe to dissuade in militarylogistics, leveragingthe best of commercial or defeat hostile military action. The objective is to business processes, organizational redesigns, and the put a brigade combat team on theground in 96 hours, emerging global information and electroniccommerce a division within120 hours, and five divisions within market. This single logistics system will have an 30 days. Generating this force with available lift unprecedentedlevel of interconnectivity,visibility and requires an aggressive near- and mid-term reduction interoperability. It will connect to the global network in the logistics footprint and replenishment demand of other services, as well as toindustry. It will allow through control over the numbers and types of us to leverage reach-back and intemetted command vehicles deployed and increased leveraging of reach­ and control capabilities,and develop a force structure back capabilities and split-based operations. The far with a reduced demand for replenishment supplies. (This paper, prepared for A USA's 15-17 May 2000 Revolution in Military Logistics Symposium, is based on information obtained from the U.S. Army Logistics Integration Agency.) Distribution-based logistics represents a whole doctrine and requirements associated with new way of doing business. Under this concept, intermediatestaging bases, and advanceddeployment distributionvelocity and precisionoflSets our traditional planning tools. reliance on redundant mass to accommodate Embedded in theRML' s last tenet, maintai11ing uncertainty. Redundant echelons of inventory and an adequate logistics fo otprint, is a proactive force structure are eliminated. Faster and more approach to examining footprint "drivers" and plentiful liftwill permit the single logistics system to identifYing ways to reduce that footprint. Reducing respond quickly and precisely to anticipated thelogistics footprintwill require synergyalong multiple requirements, allowing fewer andsmaller in-transit avenues, particularly in ammunition lethality, system holding inventories. reliability, and consumption rates for all classes of To tal asset visibility (TAV) provides real-time supply. The real improvements, however, hinge on logisticsvisibility and permitsreal-time logistics control revolutionary new materiel systems that are reduced and distribution management. TAV captures, in size and weight, with improved efficiency and processes, manages and exploits logisticsdata to allow survivability. managers toknow at alltimes what's in the distribution pipeline. Through the use ofTAV, the single logistics The Role of Tec.hnology system can exploit high-quality,timely data for more The Army is identifYingand targeting technologies responsive and cost-effectivemanagement through with military potential to ensure future U.S. military a distribution-basedlogistics system. dominance. The technologies currently under Army logistics will be supported by an agile investigation have the potential to radically reduce infrastructure thatintegrates Army capabilities into sustainment requirements andthe logisticsfootprint. a single, seamless Army-wide logistics provider at These include advanced lightweight materials, the national level. This command will train, generate, compact power sources, alternativefuels, broadband project and administratively control the Theater mobilewireless communications,nanoscience (building Support Commands that support the warfighting things one atom at a time), biomimetics (emulating commanders. It will team with the Department of living structures),intelligent systems (roboticssystems Defense (DoD), other services, allies and industry that reduce personnel requirements and operator partners. Reach-back capabilitieswill be embedded danger), and ultrareliability of systems. to control the scope and complexityof the footprintin the area of operations. The "nerve center" in this Conclusion Army-widelogistics provider willbe readiness-driven, The RML is being implemented through the with a field-readiness focus. This provider will execution of the Army Strategic Logistics Plan comprise, in part, the deployment of operational (ASLP). The purpose of the ASLP is to synchronize infrastructure such as integrated, intermodal and integrate more than200 logistics programs. The information systems, distribution platforms, and ASLP will incorporatethe expert recommendations automatedmateriel handling equipment. of the Combat Support/Combat Service Support The RML's goal of rapid force projection TransformationTask Force to capture new require­ focuses on meeting the Army's deployment timelines ments and ensure synchronization of logistics with forces that are optimized for early, then decisive initiatives with the new Army vision andmoderniza­ operations, and capable of operating jointly without tion strategy. An on-site team presence will be access to fixedforward bases. Major improvements established at Fort Lewis to identifY and support are planned in improved strategic airlift and sealift, advancedlogistics concepts and technologies for the prepositioned equipment, enhanced port opening, initial brigade development effort.The ASLP will logistics over-the-shore capabilities, and tactical capture the results of this and future assessments, enablers such aspalletized loading systems, movement and continue to serve as the strategic road map for tracking systems,and improved materiel and container the RMLtransformation path, from
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