CLEANING OUT THE GARAGE


to identify excess equipment and forecast potential opportunities for U.S. partners. In coordination with the Logistics Data Analysis Center, formerly the Logistics Support Activity, the team was instru- mental in creating the Foreign Military Sales Function within the tool, which will empower USASAC to vet equipment and provide the Army another option to source equipment.


BIRD IN THE HAND


Kiowa helicopters destined for a foreign partner arrive at Redstone Arsenal Airfield in Alabama in July 2015. Storing the aircraft in flight-ready condition saved the Army and the foreign partner money: The Army avoided the transportation and storage prep cost, and the foreign partner avoided the regeneration cost that would have been incurred with bringing them out of storage. (U.S. Army photo by Michelle Miller, Program Executive Office for Aviation)


challenge for USASAC: Equipment being divested was no longer going to depots for storage, and the Excess Defense Arti- cle program’s ability to staff and approve transfers to partner nations, which typi- cally takes three to six months, was being overwhelmed. Opportunities to support our partners’ modernization efforts and build partner capacity were missed; a change was needed.


Recognizing the lost opportunities, USASAC’s Excess Defense Articles team started to explore a new approach. Tey needed to be able to identify equip- ment and partners’ requirements earlier and to develop a more streamlined approval process. Terefore, USASAC had to figure out how to get operational


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equipment—condition code F (repair- able) or better—directly from units and transfer it to partner nations without slowing down divestiture or costing the Army money.


Lem Williams, chief of the Mission Support Division within USASAC G-3, leads the effort. “Having USASAC formally inserted into Army processes will give us the visibility to get in front of divestiture decisions, and enables us to align partner requirements with COCOM [combatant command] commanders’ requirements prior to final disposition instructions,” he said.


Williams and his team have been able to leverage the Army’s Decision Support Tool


To share its vision, the Excess Defense Articles team planned, coordinated, hosted and steered multiple working groups with HQDA, AMC, the U.S. Army Sustainment Command, the U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command and the Logistics Data Analy- sis Center. In 2017, the team’s work started to pay off. Te working group developed a proof of principle that would be executed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky: USASAC would receive light medium tactical vehi- cles directly from units and transfer them to partner nations on-site at no cost to the Army.


Te proof of principle will involve the transfer of 100 excess operational M1078, M1083 and M1084 Light Medium Tacti- cal Vehicles to Morocco. Historically, the unit would pay to prepare and ship a vehi- cle to another installation or depot; it will not have to do so for the proof of prin- ciple. Participating units have turned in or will turn in the equipment; USASAC will receive the equipment; and the part- ner will pay to have the equipment stored and shipped to its final destination. Most of the equipment the units have turned in to the 406th Army Field Support Battal- ion is in better condition than code F, and most is serviceable without qualification or better.


By transferring the trucks at the source of supply, the Army will save taxpayers millions of dollars that would otherwise


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