Program aims to fix military supply chain failings

If a military Humvee has no fuel, it can't carry soldiers. Guns without ammunition are useless. If soldiers lack food, their threat diminishes greatly, notes a report in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

That's the rationale for plan by the Department of Defense's Joint Logistics Enterprise, which includes both supply chain and logistics operations, to improve its performance.

According to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, "The enterprise needs to overcome its reliance on thousands of disparate legacy information systems, which can't provide the status of millions of military parts, supplies, and pieces of equipment, which are stocked and shipped around the world."

Its new LogX program aims to develop and create software "for real-time logistics and supply chain system situational awareness (diagnosis), future state prediction (prognosis), and resilience at unprecedented scale and speed."

It will establish procedures that work along with existing systems to assemble logistics information in digital and cloud formats.

"The DoD Joint Logistics Enterprise is immense," said John Paschkewitz, an official in the Strategic Technology Office. "Most people don't realize that the Air Force alone operates a fleet of aircraft four times the size of one of the largest U.S. airlines. The supply chain inventory to sustain the Air Force fleet has been estimated to be as large as multiple Fortune 500 companies combined. Add the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps' needs, and you see how enormous the department's global logistics and supply systems are, dwarfing any commercial logistics system."

For the rest of this report, and more, please go to Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.