Battlefield Automation: Army Efforts to Automate Combat Service Support

摘要

The report reviews the status of the Army's effort to automate combat service support (CSS) activities. Currently, the Army uses numerous manual and automated information gathering and reporting systems to manage CSS activities such as personnel, transportation, medical and maintenance records, ammunition and spare parts inventories, and finance and legal administration. These systems gather information at lower command levels and report it to higher command levels where it is accumulated, processed, and analyzed. The Army expects to spend about $600 million to modernize its automated CSS activities at corps and theater levels and to automate manual systems at lower command levels.