Force multiplying technologies for logistics support to military operations / Committee on Force Multiplying Technologies for Logistics Support to Military Operations, Board on Army Science and Technology, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Force Multiplying Technologies for Logistics Support to Military Operations.

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Army Science and Technology, issuing body.

National Research Council (U.S.). Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Military policy.

United States.

Military policy.

Military planning--United States.

Military planning.

Security, International.

Military weapons.

Military research--United States.

Military research.

Genre:

Technical reports.

Physical Description:

xx, 209 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2014]

Summary:

"Force Multiplying Technologies for Logistics Support to Military Operations explores Army logistics in a global, complex environment that includes the increasing use of antiaccess and area-denial tactics and technologies by potential adversaries. This report describes new technologies and systems that would reduce the demand for logistics and meet the demand at the point of need, make maintenance more efficient, improve inter- and intratheater mobility, and improve near-real-time, in-transit visibility. Force Multiplying Technologies also explores options for the Army to operate with the other services and improve its support of Special Operations Forces. This report provides a logistics-centric research and development investment strategy and illustrative examples of how improved logistics could look in the future."--Publisher description.

Contents:

The current logistics picture

Reducing the major logistics demands

Logistics mobility

Maintenance, retrograde, and waste

Logistics enterprise information systems and decision support

Use of contractors and the Army Reserve

Optimizing the logistics effort

Logistics-centric science and technology and research and development investment strategy

Future operations : how it might be

Findings and recommendations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

This study was supported by Contract/Grant No. W911NF-13-D-0002-0001 between the National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Army.

ISBN:

9780309307338

0309307333

OCLC:

900289662