The U.S. Army's Official Professional Bulletin on Sustainment. Army Sustainment (ISSN 2153-5973) is a bimonthly publication, prepared at the Army Logistics University and published by the Army Combined Arms Support Command, Fort Lee, Virginia, for the Department of the Army.
It was established in 1969 by the Department of the Army as the official magazine for Army logistics and was originally known as Army Logistician. It was renamed Army Sustainment in 2009 and now serves as the Army's professional bulletin for the sustainment warfighting function, including logistics, personnel services, and medical logistics and evacuation.
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In the early fall of 2021, the 2nd Cavalry Regiment (2CR) executed Saber Junction 21 (SJ21), the U.S. Army Forces Europe and Africa-directed annual exercise, which assessed 2CR’s ability to execute Unified Land Operations (ULO) in a joint and combined environment. Read the full article. https://go.usa.gov/xzddG
Preparation work has begun on a new land ship training facility to enhance the installation’s multimodal training area.
A groundbreaking ceremony for the facility took place on March 8 at Training Area 10, also called the multimodal training area, in the northeast quadrant of the main post near the main exchange.
Col. Frederick L. Crist, Chief of Transportation and Commandant, Transportation School, hosted the event. In attendance was Maj. Gen. Mark T. Simerly, CASCOM and Fort Lee commanding general; several of his staff members; and others associated with the project.
FORT LEE, Va. – Preparation work has begun on a new land ship training facility that will enhance the installation’s multimodal training area.
Every one of us plays a significant role in talent management, regardless of rank or position—for ourselves, our peers, and our successors, and it spans well beyond just assignments. Find out what talent management covers by reading the full article. https://go.usa.gov/xzdd8
For the first time within the United States Indo-Pacific Command, the Army deployed a large-scale, strategically sourced sustainment contract, LOGCAP, in an expeditionary manner to establish a Pacific theater gateway in Guam.
Find out why this deployment is an exception to the historical norm. https://go.usa.gov/xzddm
While many of the technologies of 2035 are still in development, there is plenty that the sustainment community can focus on now to build a bedrock of understanding as we continue to transform and incorporate data-driven concepts into our training and doctrine. https://go.usa.gov/xzddT
The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command hosted its annual 101 for Missiles March 1-2, and it arguably could not have come at a more relevant time.
AMCOM and the Army missile community come together annually to discuss support to warfighters worldwide. Approximately 100 attendees participated, up participated in the primarily virtual hybrid event.
The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command hosted its annual 101 for Missiles March 1-2 and it arguably could not have come at a more relevant time.
When was the last time you visited where your Soldiers live?
As a senior NCO, can you answer this question and know why it's asked? Make sure you're ensuring the next generation of Soldiers are ready to take the mantle when their time comes. https://go.usa.gov/xzUfn
Researching through surveys, senior leadership interviews, and personnel file analysis has led me to design a model to help TPU officers succeed in their career ambitions. Find out what that model looks like for the Army Reserve officer. Read the full article here. https://go.usa.gov/xzUf9
Utilization tour selection will be the single biggest decision you make other than the monograph topic: ask the right questions. As an asset to the unit, you should be interested in more than the unit’s location. Several questions I wish I would have asked are:
- How do your G-5, G-3, and chief of staff see non-maneuver planners?
- Why does your unit want a logistics planner?
- Who was your last logistics planner, and what efforts did they lead?
https://go.usa.gov/xzQ27
What does the term “multi-functional logistician” mean?
Find out how Lt. Col. Altwan and Mike Crozier answer this question in their interview with ASPB. https://go.usa.gov/xzQ23
People-first organizations require a methodology to cross-train their population to support complex operations, while not detracting from their primary mission or adding undue, unmitigated work. https://go.usa.gov/xzRmt
The materiel, installation, and sustainment enterprise employs a third of Army Civilians, with nearly 96,000 working for Army Materiel Command (AMC) alone. How we manage, grow, and care for our people throughout their careers directly affects and enables our ability to support warfighters and accomplish the Army mission now and in the future. https://go.usa.gov/xzRmF
When fully implemented, the IPPS-A will be used across all three components (Active, National Guard, and Army Reserve) and will affect total Army readiness by ensuring strength managers, Human Resources Command (HRC) career managers, and commanders have a common operating picture of talent in their formations. Find out what this means by reading the full article. https://go.usa.gov/xzRmH
Read the eight key factors Hotel Forward Support Company (FSC) improved or implemented to make their Class (CL) V ammunition program a success after looking at a possible failure of gunnery ammo draw. https://go.usa.gov/xzRmv
Army Sustainment sat down with Maj. Gen. Thomas Drew and Command Sgt. Maj. Anthony McAdoo to learn about Army Human Resources Command's key initiatives undertaken in 2021 and those slated for 2022, which will posture the Army's people to meet the joint force's needs in the evolving state of future warfare. https://go.usa.gov/xzRmV
The 8th Theater Sustainment Command held a rehearsal of concept drill for upcoming logistical operations in support of Pacific Pathways 2022, a series of U.S. Army Pacific led exercises that support security in the Indo-Pacific region. Planners from the 8th TSC‘s future operations team presented the 8th TSC Commanding General, Maj. Gen. David Wilson, with a visual model developed through the Army Design Methodology planning process to highlight the planned movement of Army Prepositioned Stocks (APS) to support the exercises.
PEARL HARBOR — The 8th Theater Sustainment Command held a rehearsal of concept drill for upcoming logistical operations in support of Pacific Pathways 2...
Army Medical Logistics Command (AMLC), a subordinate command under U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command, is responsible for delivering integrated sustainment and data management to enable health services supporting the operational Army and the joint force worldwide.
AMLC’s core LCMC functions will include:
- Monitoring life cycle sustainment costs.
- Maintaining accountability.
- Providing readiness visibility of individual items and sets.
- Verifying suitability, supportability, and safety for items before completing acquisition and fielding processes.
https://go.usa.gov/xzRmn
The Army was racially segregated for Lt. Gen. Arthur J. Gregg's first four years of service, so opportunities for promotion and new assignments for African Americans were extremely limited. When Gregg first arrived at Fort Lee, Virginia, in the early 1950s, he was assigned to an all-black company as an assistant platoon leader. Read more about the establishment of the Lt. Gen. Arthur J. Gregg Sustainment Leadership Award and the achievements of both the award namesake and the 2021 award recipient. https://go.usa.gov/xzRmT
In 2019, the Army published Army Directive 2019-29, Enabling Readiness and Modernization through Advanced Manufacturing, dated Sept. 18, 2019, which defines advanced manufacturing as new methods of manufacturing existing products through emerging technological advancements. Find out how additive manufacturing fits into the advanced manufacturing directive. https://go.usa.gov/xzKpQ
Junior leaders seeking to manage their careers can leverage the Army’s professional development guides for commissioned officers and noncommissioned officers DA Pamphlets 600-3 and 600-25, respectively. Find out more by clicking the link and reading the full article. https://go.usa.gov/xzKpn
Designed to transport infantry troops, the Bradley Fighting Vehicle is known for its survivability, mobility and lethality.
Now, it can add hybrid electrification to its attributes.
In a first, the Army turned on its newly integrated hybrid electric Bradley during a demonstration on Jan. 28, marking a major milestone in a rapid prototyping effort. The integrated hybrid electric system will be used to demonstrate that widely available commercial hybrid technology could also benefit the military.
STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. — Designed to transport infantry troops, the Bradley Fighting Vehicle is known for its survivability, mobility and lethality.
The Army must develop capabilities while maintaining readiness and balancing modernization priorities to compete and win across all domains. To measure the success of these initiatives at the tactical level, the Army assesses its ability to fight and prevail in large-scale combat operations (LSCO) by combat training center (CTC) rotational exercises. Read how these rotational exercises provide critical feedback to the Regionally Aligned Readiness and Modernization Model, the Army’s modernization framework and force generation process, ensuring units are capable and ready to execute LSCO. https://go.usa.gov/xzKVe
The Army, talent management system is a 21st-century, data-rich and people-centric approach to leveraging the right diverse talents to fight and win our nation’s future wars.
Talent management is one of the most important things we do as an Army, key to ensuring the U.S. continues to be the best military in the world. https://go.usa.gov/xz9pQ
Based at Fort Shafter, Hawaii, the 413th Contracting Support Brigade (CSB) demonstrated the operationalized contracting shift in business practice at a large scale during the 2021 Pacific theater summer exercise cycle. Find out how this shift was made by reading the full article here. https://www.army.mil/article/253851
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