Army Strategic Logistics Plan: Enabling Strategic Responsiveness Through a Revolution in Military Logistics

摘要

The Army Strategic Logistics Plan (ASLP) is the Army Logistics community's strategy to achieve the DCSLOG's Logistics Vision the Revolution in Military Logistics (RML). The ASLP will achieve the goals of that vision by transforming Army logistics from a system based predominately on redundancy of mass to one based on velocity mobility and information. It will be supported by a single logistics system employing shared situational awareness to facilitate real-time logistics control extending from the tactical level of operations in a theater to the strategic or sustaining base - from the factory to the foxhole. The RML will support an Army that will be strategically responsive along the entire mission continuum. To do so requires a streamlining of Army logistics to achieve the Army's deployment timelines and reduced footprint goals. This streamlining process began over two years ago when the RML was institutionalized and it focused on exploiting information and communications technologies. Revolutionary changes to materiel systems were deferred to the far-term. The new Army vision accelerates the transformation process by pulling the modernization of materiel systems and force structure into the near-term so that the processes of acquiring physical agility and mental agility are conducted concurrently, rather than sequentially. The ASLP consolidates the full spectrum of logistics modernization in a single executable plan. It includes for example logistics efficiencies and best commercial practices being pursued consistent with Sections 347 and 912 of the FY 98 Defense Authorization Act. It reflects the importance of developing the civilian workforce as cited in the Defense Reform Initiative. The theater distribution and sustainment programs are outlined in the Total Distribution Program at Appendix D.