Making BCS3 Work in a Deployed Environment

摘要

The Battle Command Sustainment Support System (BCS3) is the logistics application of the modular Army Battle Command System. It can pull information from a variety of logistics information systems and compile it into one common operational picture for commanders to view. BCS3, however, suffered a number of setbacks in its early fieldings because it was perceived as being difficult to use and often unreliable. After a major effort to improve BCS3, U.S. Forces-Iraq (USF-I) and the Army's expeditionary sustainment command (ESC) in Iraq were told in 2010 to field the system or it would be removed from the theater.