DECISIVE EXECUTION DESTINED FOR REUSE


Disposition of property for possible reuse, reset or demilitarization is a key element of any drawdown. Here, contractors for the retrograde yard at the General Dynamics Information Technology Center remove items from containers March 10 at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, as part of Operation Steel Purge. Government-owned shipping containers throughout Kuwait were designated for reclaiming, repair and reuse to save money. (U.S. Army photo by SGT Ashley M. Outler, 28th Public Affairs Detachment)


Equipment may be


inadvertently sent


to incorrect locations or turned in to Disposition Services for destruction.


For example, ASA(ALT) collaborated with its in-theater counterparts in Iraq to bring more


these


ASA(ALT) also partnered with the life- cycle management commands (LCMCs) to enter updated equipment disposi- tion instructions into AMC’s Materiel Enterprise Non-Standard


Equipment than 5,000 pieces of


equipment “to record” on the theater property book (TPB). Most of


items were fielded at the brigade level, but the PMs did not initiate a Property Book Unit Supply Enhanced (PBUSE) transaction at that level to officially capture the materiel on the property book. Because ASA(ALT) addressed this


shortcoming before beginning


retrograde activities, it prevented loss of equipment, ensured that resources were available to move the materiel and allowed U.S. Army Central (ARCENT) and AMC to fulfill a substantial number of open requirements for the equipment within theater.


(MENS-E) database, providing updates to other property accountability systems such as the Teater Property Equipment (TPE) – Planner and the Army War Reserve Deployment System (AWRDS).


Lastly, several Standard Army Manage- ment Information Systems (STAMIS), such as PBUSE, MENS-E, TPE-Planner, Teater Redistributable Asset Manager and AWRDS, are indispensable for the end-to-end management of equipment fielded in and retrograded out of theater.


However, these stand-alone systems, with their lack of interoperability, added a dif- ferent set of challenges in recording status changes to equipment.


Updates to disposition instructions in the MENS-E system can take days to get captured in TPE-Planner or AWRDS, sometimes too late to influence the equip- ment’s destination. As a work-around, changing disposition instructions must be entered manually into TPE-Planner or AWRDS, which can be cumbersome and time-consuming.


As we prepare for future retrograde opera- tions, consolidating and combining the functionality of these STAMIS would reduce duplicated efforts and the process- ing time to effect equipment updates.


INSTITUTIONALIZED TRAINING Te U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center (USAASC) serves as the train- ing and career development proponent for ASA(ALT) personnel. In partnership with the Defense Acquisition University,


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Army AL&T Magazine


July–September 2013


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