Hot Stuff - Current Buzz
Operational Sense and Respond Logistics: Coevolution of an Adaptive Enterprise Capability (local copy), concept paper posted at the Office of Force Transformation, 6 May 2004
- AFMC Summer '02 Commander's Conference included discussion of the Capabilities Review and Risk Assessment (CRRA) concept, mentioned in the Feb Chief's Sight Picture, quoted below, and how it would figure into the PPBS system --
... Air Staff has designed a new review to replace the QAPR--we call this new approach a Capabilities Review and Risk Assessment (CRRA). The focus of the CRRA will shift from a program review to a review of how our programs contribute to warfighting capabilities and effects. As with all aspects of our transformation, CRRAs will be
centered around Task Force CONOPS.
Let me briefly describe the logic behind the CRRA construct. For our first time out of the chute, we’ll review the capabilities that support the GSTF. The CRRA will evaluate the health and risk of each of the required GSTF capabilities over the next 20 years. To accomplish this, we will review acquisition programs and discuss disconnects and prioritization in relation to how the programs support GSTF capabilities. The bottom-line goal for the CRRA is to give senior USAF leadership an operational, capabilities-based focus for acquisition program decisionmaking.
What Is Logistics?
- Joint Publication 1-02, Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
logistics - The science of planning and carrying out the movement and maintenance of forces. In its most comprehensive sense, those aspects of military operations which deal with: a. design and development, acquisition, storage, movement, distribution, maintenance, evacuation, and disposition of materiel; b. movement, evacuation, and
hospitalization of personnel; c. acquisition or construction, maintenance, operation, and disposition of facilities; and d. acquisition or furnishing of services.
General Sources & Organizations
Logistics World "your guide to thousands of sites related to logistics, logistics management, freight, transportation, supply chain management, warehousing, distribution, maintenance, manufacturing, management, reliability, mathematics, business, and quality sites on the web."
- MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL)
- Institute of Logistics and Transport (IoLT)
- Logistics Officer Association (LOA)
- LogLink, Logistics Links, Transportation and Logistics
- Logistics Management Institute (LMI)
- Council of Logistics Management (CLM)
- Precipice, a thriller novel by Pollock, written at the request of CLM -- "the novel establishes the relationship between logistics performance and our quality of life-not to mention our very survival"
- Inbound Logistics online magazine and resource site
- Strikepoint, serialized novel by Pollock -- "intrigue ... suspense ... logistics"
- Transportation Research Board (TRB)
- National Contract Management Association (NCMA)
- National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA)
- Computer Assisted Technology Transfer (CATT) Program
- International Society of Logistics (SOLE)
- APICS - The Educational Society for Resource Management
- Institute for Supply Management (ISM)
- Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)
National Resources
DoD - Joint Resources
- JCS Logistics Directorate (J4)
- Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics
- DoD Acquisition Policy
- Logistics & Materiel Readiness, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
- Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell (JRAC) - working on speeding the aquisition of resources needed by the warfighter
- Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)
- Logistics Operations (J-3) "includes Business Systems Modernization (J-32), Logistics Policy and Acquisition Management (J-33), Readiness and Customer Support (J-34), and Business Management (J-38)"
- Defense Energy Support Center (DESC) "mission is to provide the Department of Defense and other government agencies with comprehensive energy solutions in the most effective and economical manner possible."
- Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management (DISAM)
- Annual DoD Logistics Conference and Exhibition - briefings posted
- Defense Acquisition University (DAU)
- Defense Acquisition University Virtual Campus
- Defense Acquisition University - Logistics Management Resources -- includes handbooks and guides
- Communities of Practice
- Communities of Practice are networks of people, small and large, who come together to share and to learn from one another face-to-face and virtually. These communities — of practice, of interest, of learning — are held together by a common goal and purpose that is supported by a desire to share experiences, insights, knowledge, and best practices.
- Evolutionary Acquisition
- Program Management
- Contract Management
- Risk Management
- Systems Engineering
- Total Ownership Cost
- DAU Continuous Learning Center (CLC) "The Mission of the CLC is to provide a single portal for easy access to a multitude of continuous learning opportunities, performance support and information. This will help you, as a member of the Acquisition Community, fulfill the requirement of 80 continuous learning points every two years."
- Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF), at NDU
- Information Resources Management College (IRMC), at NDU
- PPBS Tutorial, from the Navy
- PPBS Tutorial, from Air Force XP
- PPBS Primer, from Air Force XP
- Defense Acquisition Support Center
- Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC), including lessons learned
- Defense Acquisition Initiatives (aka Reform), Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Reform
- Acquisition Reform Network
- Defense Acquisition Deskbook, "latest acquisition news and policy" -- including mandatory and discretionary policy documents (laws, directives, and regulations)
- Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA)
- U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM)
- Joint Deployment Training Center (JDTC)
- Special Operations Acquisition and Logistics Center, USSOCOM
- Defense Standardization Program (DSP)
- Open Systems Joint Task Force
- Government-Industry Data Exchange Program (GIDEP)
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) including "doing business with DARPA"
- Defense Electronic Business Program Office (DEBPO) - formerly Joint Electronic Commerce Program Office (JECPO)
- Lean Logistics: Better, Faster, Cheaper speech by Undersecretary Kaminski
- Revolution in Defense Logistics speech by Undersecretary Kaminski
Planning, Programming and Budgeting System (PPBS)
Army Resources
Navy Resources
Marine Resources
Air Force Resources
- SAF/AQ
- Acquisition Excellence - newsletter, initiatives, policies, success stories, etc.
- Air Force Contracting
- Air Force Acquisition Strategy Panel (ASP) Secretariat
- AMC's Air Mobility Warfare Center (AMWC), Fort Dix, military site
- includes Phoenix Readiness course
- Air Force Systems Acquisition School (SAS), Brooks AFB, TX
- School of Systems and Logistics, Air Force Institute of Technology
- USAF Supply Officer Guide, AF Pamphlet 23-113
- PPBS Tutorial, from Air Force XP
- PPBS Primer, from Air Force XP
- Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC)
- Deputy Chief of Staff, Installations and Logistics (DCS/IL)
- Air Force Logistics Management Agency (AFLMA)
- Air Force Journal of Logistics
- Air Force Country Store
Supply Chain Management
Special Ops
Export Controls and Foreign Investment
- See also Export Control Regimes at USAF Counterproliferation Center
- Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS), at U.S. Treasury
- White House Fact Sheet: Bush Administration Review of Defense Trade Export Policy and National Security
- U.S. System of Enforcement of Export Control, explained by the State Department
- Office of Defense Trade Controls (DTC), State Department -- includes forms, licensing, contact points
- US Code, Title 22, Chapter 39 - Arms Export Control
- Export Administration Regulations (EAR) Database, includes the Commerce Control List (CCL)
- Export Administration Act (EAA) of 2001
- The Export Administration Act (EAA): Controversy and Prospects, Congressional Research Service (CRS) report
- Export Administration Act (EAA) of 1979 Reauthorization, CRS report
- Nuclear, Biological, Chemical, and Missile Proliferation Sanctions: Selected Current Law, CRS report
- Background Paper: The U.S. Approach to Combating the Spread of Small Arms, State Dept
- DoD Directive 5105.65, Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA)
- DSCA reports to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy through the Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs). DSCA serves as the DoD focal point and clearinghouse for the development and implementation of security assistance plans and programs, monitoring major weapon sales and technology transfer issues, budgetary and financial arrangements, legislative initiatives and activities, and policy and other security assistance matters through the analysis, coordination, decision, and implementation process.
- Society for International Affairs (SIA), mission is "To educate the export community on all aspects of technology transfer by providing a forum for exchange of information on the export and import process."
Industrial Base
Coalition Logistics
- Coalition Warfare Program of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology & Logistics
- Fact Sheet: Coalition Contributions to the War on Terrorism
, 14 Jun 2002 -- many references to logistics
- Coalition Logistics, in Army Logistician, "professional bulletin of United States Army logistics," Mar-Apr 2002
- Is There a Need for Multinational Logistics Training?
by Weatherill, in Army Logistician, Jan-Feb 2002
- Toward a Multinational Future, by Bainbridge, in Army Logistician, Sep-Oct 2000
- Joint and Combined Theater Logistics-The Future Reality, by Engel, in Army Logistician, May-Jun 1999
- More from Army Logistician
- Military Logistics: The U.S. Contribution To UN Peacekeeping, by Pirozzi, Marine Corps Command and Staff College
- Society for International Affairs (SIA), mission is "To educate the export community on all aspects of technology transfer by providing a forum for exchange of information on the export and import process."
International Resources
Interplanetary Logistics
Logistics History
- Defense Acquisition History (DAH) Project
- A DESERT STORM Oral History Interview with (then) COL Julian A. Sullivan, Commander 507th Support Group (Area)
- Desert Shield & Desert Storm: An Aviation Logistics History, 1990 - 1991
- Supplying War: Interservice and Interallied Cooperation in China-Burma-India, by Daugherty, in Joint Force Quarterly, Summer 1996
- Medieval Logistics - As Applied to the Classes of Quartermaster Supply (local copy), by Woodard et al, Quartermaster Professional Bulletin,Winter 2000
- Early Logistics and Transport and Strategic and Tactical Mobility, from A Short History of War, by Gabriel and Metz
Risk Management
Lessons Learned & Reform
News, Publications & Research
- Research by the Council of Logistics Management (CLM)
- International Journal of Logistics Management
- ROAR (Research on Ongoing Acquisition Research) "To enable acquisition professionals and policy makers to quickly locate researchers who are developing "most current knowledge" on any specific acquisition topic."
- Defense Acquisition Deskbook, "latest acquisition news and policy" -- including mandatory and discretionary policy documents (laws, directives, and regulations)
- PM (Program Manager) Magazine, from DAU
- Acquisition Review Quarterly, from DAU
- Acquisition Publications list from DAU
- Army Logistician, Professional Bulletin of U.S. Army Logistics
- Air Force Journal of Logistics
- RAND research publications about Logistics
- RAND research publications about Acquisition and Technology
- Inbound Logistics online magazine and resource site
- Strikepoint, serialized novel by Pollock -- "intrigue ... suspense ... logistics"
- InterlogOnline.Com, Online Portal for Aftermarket & Service Logisticians
- Logistics Research Network
- Arms Sales bibliography, by AU Library
- Critical Logistics Thinking Skills (Local Copy)
- Whatever Happened to Defense Industrial Preparedness? by Gutmanis, in Joint Force Quarterly, Summer 1997
- In Search of Focused Logistics, by Cusick, in Joint Force Quarterly, Spring 1997
- Logistics in Wargaming: An Initial Report, by Hutzler, in Joint Force Quarterly, Winter 1995-96
- The Changing Nature of External Threats, Economic and Political Imperatives, and Seamless Logistics, by Muczyk, in Airpower Journal, Summer 1997
- The Operator-Logistician Disconnect, by Bartlow, in Airpower Journal, Fall 1988
Schools and Courses
- See Military Education Online, including AFIT
- Joint Deployment Training Center (JDTC)
- Evolution of the Air Force Expeditionary Logistics School, by Hall, in Aerospace Power Journal, Spring 2002
- School of Systems and Logistics, Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), "is the Air Force's sole provider of Professional Continuing Education (PCE) courses in the areas of Acquisition, Logistics, and Software Engineering"
- AMC's Air Mobility Warfare Center (AMWC), Fort Dix, military site
- includes Phoenix Readiness course
- U.S. Army Logistics Management College (ALMC)
- U.S. Army Management Staff College (AMSC)
- Defense Acquisition University (DAU)
- Defense Acquisition University Virtual Campus
- Defense Acquisition University - Logistics Management Resources -- includes handbooks and guides
- DAU Continuous Learning Center (CLC) "The Mission of the CLC is to provide a single portal for easy access to a multitude of continuous learning opportunities, performance support and information. This will help you, as a member of the Acquisition Community, fulfill the requirement of 80 continuous learning points every two years."
- Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF), at NDU
- Information Resources Management College (IRMC), at NDU
- International Society of Logistics (SOLE)
- Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management (DISAM)
- APICS - The Educational Society for Resource Management
- PPBS Tutorial, from the Navy
- PPBS Tutorial, from Air Force XP
- PPBS Primer, from Air Force XP
- Logistical and Transportation Planning Methods, MIT course
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