2000 Assessment of the Office of Naval Research's Marine Corps Science and Technology Program (2000) / Chapter Skim
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4 Logistics
4 Logistics
Pages 28-34
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~. This logistics concept was reviewed by the Naval Studies Board in 1998, and several significant findings were documented in the report Naval Expeditionary Logistics: Enabling Operational Maneuver From the Sea.
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The committee also recognizes that logistics is typically in a reactive mode, given the task of transporting and maintaining equipment that has often been designed without logistics constraints as a key design consideration, and it encourages the Marine Corps logistics community to take a more proactive role in the future. PROGRAMS REVIEWED Bulk Liquids The Bulk Liquids program includes transport of both fuel and water, but the emphasis of the projects presented was on fuel and concentrated on methods of facilitating transportation and automatic sensing of fuel quantity and fuel quality.
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Identifying specific AAAV corrosion problems from discussions with operators and specific technical approaches based on extensive interactions with the corrosion scientific community should become the first priority. The committee recommends that the results of those efforts be used in planning for and testing specific, high-payoff fixes for some of the more expensive and serious AAAV corrosion problems.
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The SUL ACTD goals are a proof-of-concept demonstration of improved logistics command and coordination and a smaller footprint for tactical unit logistics. The idea is to use client server architecture to link a number of different legacy databases with tagging devices to allow locating equipment and sunolies in real time .
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Such a step could help solve interoperability problems if the most difficult legacy system were selected for conversion and also used as a transition platform to encourage updating the other legacy database systems by the community. Although the committee recognizes that the current communications structure must be used for some time, proof-of-principle demonstrations of the value of higher-bandwidth communications systems would be a valuable adjunct to the ACID.
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The resulting Marine Corps requirements for aircraft survivability/countermeasures should then be communicated to the responsible programs. Similarly, TLoaDS or similar models should be developed and used to assess the impact of bad weather on the ability to unload shipboard containers, form logistics delivery packages on board in a limited space, and load those packages onto aircraft for shipment to the warfighters ashore.
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The Naval Studies Board report Naval Expeditionary Logistics indicated that per-person usage in a Marine Corps landing force was 7 gallons per day. Discussions during the review also indicated that all the water consumed by an OMFTS landing force would have to be transported from the ships.
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