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Technology for the United States Navy and Marine Corps, 2000-2035 Becoming a 21st-Century Force Volume 8: Logistics (1997) / Chapter Skim
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4 Conclusions and Recommendations
Pages 37-40

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... Only responsive, focused logistic activity will enable military operations within the action time lines needed for mission success. Meeting these high expectations in the future will require new logistic capabilities and new ways of accomplishing logistic tasks.
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... 3. The Navy and Marine Corps should develop and apply to logistic operations the emerging information technologies that promise to enable management of processes as integrated enterprises supporting naval operations: · Automated marking and identification technology to eliminate manual input of critical logistic data; · Sensors and intelligent software for monitoring logistic activities (e.g., shipments and maintenance)
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... . Integrated digital weapon system databases; · Computer-based technical training; · Integrated maintenance information systems that tie together all information relevant to a technician's task and present it at the point of use in the most usable form; · Sensor-based diagnostic and prognostic software; and · Automated identification, tracking, and control of parts, supplies, and shipments.
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Key Terms

  • logistic processes
  • naval forces
  • logistic ships
  • supporting naval
  • operational maneuver

  • support platform
  • maintaining weapon
  • future logistic
  • focused logistic
  • enable logistic

  • specific goals
  • panel highlights
  • standard shipping
  • critical logistic
  • emerging technology

  • logistic command
  • air transport
  • major ship
  • logistic data
  • rough seas

  • support operational
  • randomly stowed
  • emerging information
  • stowed materiel
  • maintenance information

  • modular design
  • eliminate manual
  • traditional ones
  • pending expiration
  • virtual supply


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