Army Field Support Brigade: A Solution to Integrating Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology

摘要

The current United States Army Chief of Staff General Peter J. Schoomaker recently testified to the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee that the successes enjoyed during the initial stages of Operation Iraqi Freedom were the result of an integrated logistics team of soldiers civilians and contractors all of whom developed innovative solutions to a range of challenges caused by major capability gaps in the current logistics systems. In order to fill the gaps sustain the future force and build confidence in combatant commanders the logistics supply chain must transform. It must keep pace with the future combat force by providing focused logistics that are fully-integrated expeditionary networked continuous and distributed across the full range of military operations. Army Materiel Command's (AMO) latest initiative to focus logistics is the creation of Army Field Support Brigades (AFSBs). As with many new initiatives there are some issues but if properly resourced and supported by the Army and AMO AFSBs can and will successfully meet the critical need to streamline the supply chain by integrating acquisition logistics and technology (ALT) requirements on the regional basis.