Technology for the United States Navy and Marine Corps, 2000-2035 Becoming a 21st-Century Force Volume 8: Logistics (1997) / Chapter Skim
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Technology will help make feasible the new logistic capabilities needed to support future warfighting concepts and the type of efficient, responsive logistic system that naval forces will demand. The topic of this report is the application of technologies for logistical support of future naval forces over the next several decades.
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MANAGING AND MOVING MATERIEL The ability of naval forces to deploy and remain on station in international waters and to maneuver, engage, and redeploy quickly across the sea-land interface makes them a versatile military force in littoral areas. This variety of naval operations generates several very different types of logistic activity that, while sharing the common goals of managing and moving materiel, do so under different operating conditions.
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It will also require creating the analytic tools models, simulations, and algorithmsneeded to use effectively the vast amounts of available data for early recognition and anticipation of logistic requirements; for identification, assessment, and selection of alternative courses of action; and for monitoring of the status, progress, and performance of logistic operations. All will depend on long-range, secure, assured communication of a steady stream of digital data updating files on unit locations, supply status, equipment performance, parts availability and shipments, and the myriad of other details needed to coordinate logistic activities.
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Digital databases will permit the establishment of sound configuration management the foundation of effective logistic support throughout a weapon system's life. Computer-based training will permit reducing the time required for technical training, improve skill retention, and move some training out of the classroom to job duty stations.
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CONCLUSIONS Logistics, on the scale required to support naval forces in a littoral region halfway around the world, is an immensely complex, difficult undertaking, performed always under trying and often hostile conditions. The conditions of the future promise to be no less challenging, and in some respect perhaps more so, than those of the past.
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3. The Navy and Marine Corps should develop and apply to logistic operations the emerging information technologies that promise to enable management of processes as integrated enterprises supporting naval operations: · Automated marking and identification technology to eliminate manual input of critical logistic data; · Sensors and intelligent software for monitoring logistic activities (e.g., shipments and maintenance)
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The process should encompass the entire life cycle of a weapon system, from acquisition to disposal. The plan should give particular attention to current weapon systems, to infrastructure and common support needs, to integration of industry capabilities into the process, and to developing and exploiting the capabilities of the following technologies: · Integrated digital weapon system databases; · Computer-based technical training; · Integrated maintenance information systems that tie together information relevant to a technician' s task and present it at the point of use in the most usable form; · Sensor-based diagnostic and prognostic software; and · Automated identification, tracking, and control of parts, supplies, and shipments.
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