ARMY AL&T


CHALLENGES TO OVERCOME One of the challenges in adopting AIT is developing institutional knowledge. While the military occupational special- ties 89A (ammunition stock control and accounting specialist) and 890A (ammu- nition warrant officer) are responsible for SAAS, AIT is not part of their professional military education. At the unit level where the AIT resides, Soldiers thus find them- selves with equipment they cannot operate.


An operational challenge is that the USB cradles for handheld terminals must be plugged into a computer on the Non- Secure Internet Protocol Router network, requiring an exemption from the network enterprise center for USB activation. With- out the cradle, the data cannot transfer from the handheld devices to the website application. Additionally, information technology personnel do not have the experience to integrate handheld termi- nals with the SAAS and cannot configure AIT equipment for use at units. To process AIT and RFID, the handheld terminals must be preloaded from the product lead’s offices.


In 2017, the transition from the server- workstation ammunition system to the new web-based system changed the inter- face between the system and AIT. Since that transition, the product lead has been overwhelmed with trouble tickets to fix errors discovered after implementation. Te initial vetting of the website did not account for the many problems that each ammunition supply point faces. In the Japan theater of operations alone, stock control clerks submitted 26 tickets in the first five months of migrating the data- base to the servers at Fort Lee, Virginia. Keeping up with the baseline website has been the priority of the product lead, and anything AIT-related has been a low prior- ity, as manual procedures may be used in its place.


FASTER INVENTORY PROCESSES


One of the most important functions of AIT at theater ammunition supply points is the ability to process serial numbers, like the ones shown on these bar codes, using handheld bar code readers. AIT can reduce the time it takes to check serial numbers from days to minutes. (Photo by Terrence Oxiles, 8th Theater Sustainment Command (TSC))


WHAT’S ON HAND?


Automated inventory equipment like this, checked by the Washington National Guard 10th Civil Support Team before an April training exercise, makes it possible for commanders to track cargo and materiel from production to forward storage areas. (U.S. National Guard photo by Joseph Siemandel)


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