COMMENTARY
L
ogistics operations in support of large-scale combat operations (LSCO) are complex, and so are the data and analytics that underpin them. Currently, logistics data is managed as a business function. Tis is because
our enterprise business systems facilitate transactions, track movements, and store and manage critical data from the joint strategic support area to the tactical edge. From the tactical edge of ongoing operations today, the reality is that logistics and sustainment operations are about warfighting.
As we build the Army of 2030, and think toward the Army of 2040, we have put new ways of providing decision support at the edge to the test. What we have learned is combatant commanders and the service members they lead have requirements forged by conflict, specific needs that traditional business systems cannot meet. Today’s operational environment has revealed that the speed and complexity of LSCO is unprecedented. A paradigm shift is necessary to keep up with this speed.
THE TASK Te Army Sustainment enterprise is leading the strategy for contested logistics. Tis strategy will require the Army to rethink how it supports the joint force—from using new plat- forms and rewriting doctrine to exploring autonomous resupply and modernizing the organic industrial base. It will inherently involve predictive logistics, which is getting the right equipment to the right place at the right densities, when commanders need it.
Since August 2022, members of the Army Materiel Command Analysis Group (AMCAG) have been in Europe supporting Army, joint force and multinational partners through predictive sustainment—and the results speak for themselves. Te AMCAG has developed several tools to solve problems in support of U.S. and partner and allied operations. What makes these tools cutting edge is not only the capabilities they provide, but that they incor- porate data from multinational partners. For example, in the AMC Predictive Analytics Suite (APAS), one of these tools gives a holistic picture of readiness, where leaders can see what is impact- ing readiness, what could impact future readiness and ways to mitigate risk. It is comprehensive, showing pieces of equipment that are down (for maintenance or indefinitely), which parts are needed to fix equipment, where the parts are, how long the parts will take to arrive and roughly when the equipment will be repaired and ready to use.
PREDICT THE NEED Simply put, we are identifying problems and solving them before they occur. We are providing decision support and analytics at the
MISSION CRITICAL
Soldiers offload U.S. M1A1 Abrams tanks in Grafenwoehr, Germany, in May 2023. Logistics and sustainment operations are critical to warfighting. (Photo by Spc. Christian Carrillo, 7th Army Training Command)
HEADQUARTERS COMMUNICATION
From right, Maj. Shaun Adams, Chief Warrant Officer 3 Cole Brown and Capt. Daniel Reape use the Tactical Mission Data Platform to communicate with headquarters. Soldiers need data-driven answers on the battlefield as soon as possible. (Photo by Spc. William Kuang, 343rd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)
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