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Staying in Iraq? DoD’s Got A Plan For That
Washington: If there is one thing the Pentagon takes really seriously, it’s making plans. It has contingency plans for its original plans and if all else fails, well, there’s a plan for that too. But...
View ArticlePakistan Reopens Supply Lines To Afghanistan
Pakistan reopens US supply lines to Afghanistan, drops demand for apology for friendly-fire deaths, gets more $$$: http://econ.st/LacJLL. SydneyFreedberg Tags: @tweets, afghanistan, logistics, pakistan
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Islamic Militants Bloody US Forces In Big Army Wargame
US ARMY WAR COLLEGE: It’s a week into the war, and things are getting ugly. Fifty American and allied troops are dead, four hundred are wounded — some in city fighting against Islamic militants, some...
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Pentagon Taps Two To Help Improve How It Buys
WASHINGTON: Two retired colonels are moving in to the office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer, which has the herculean task of improving the Pentagon’s business practices. One is a former Marine...
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Wars’ End To Mean $15 Billion Annual Drop In DLA Dough
WASHINGTON: As the United States military begins to leave Afghanistan, the Defense Logistics Agency is emptying its warehouses there of stockpiled supplies such as copper wire and shipping them back...
View ArticleBREAKING: SecDef Panetta Says Pakistan Reopening Supply Lines
BREAKING: SecDef Panetta says Pakistan has reopened PAKGLOC supply lines – for real this time? http://1.usa.gov/P34Etc SydneyFreedberg Tags: @tweets, afghanistan, allies, leon panetta, logistics,...
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BREAKING: Pakistan Reopens Supply Lines – Free of Charge; Clinton Apologizes...
WASHINGTON: After months of deadlock and $2.1 billion in extra costs to the Pentagon, Pakistan agreed to reopen NATO supply lines to Afghanistan after getting the high-level civilian apology it had...
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Army Materiel Command Gears Up For Drawdown; Base Contracts In Play
WASHINGTON: As the wars draw down and budgets shrink, the massive Army Materiel Command — 70,000 military and civilian personnel at arsenals, depots, and other facilities in all 50 states — is shifting...
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DLA Demands Chip Makers Tag Products With Plant DNA; A War On Counterfeiters
This November, the Defense Logistics Agency will require companies selling microcircuits to the military to stamp their products with an unlikely seal of authenticity: plant DNA. It’s an innovative...
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Love Letters To Robots: Why Marines Extended K-MAX In Afghanistan (EXCLUSIVE)
Half the US forces in Afghanistan may be coming home, but K-MAX, the little unmanned helicopter, will stay until the end. A pair of the remote-controlled cargo choppers arrived in Afghanistan in late...
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Pentagon Keeps Pressing For Energy Savings
[UPDATED with Burke remarks on biofuels & other alternative energy] WASHINGTON: Budget crunch be damned, the Defense Department’s effort to get more energy-efficient is still in business, said the...
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Ciao, Sergeant York! Pass The Focaccia! Prego.
WASHINGTON: The military should soon deploy a new weapon in its efforts to keep troops fit and fed: foccaccia. That’s right, those tough folks who can live on snakes and water may soon get their hands...
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Marines, Navy Reach Out To Army, Air Force For Expeditionary Warfare
PORTSMOUTH, VA: This is a Navy town, just minutes from the massive Atlantic Fleet base at Norfolk. But when Navy and Marine Corps leaders convened here yesterday for their annual conference on...
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Army ‘Borrowed’ Logistics Software; Pays $50M To Apptricity
WASHINGTON: Over the years I’ve heard dozens of defense executives grumble about the government “stealing” their intellectual property but, when push comes to shove, no one has ever wanted to talk...
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3D Printing: Imagine A Brigade Producing Parts On Battlefield
Additive manufacturing, known to the public as 3D printing, may profoundly improve combat readiness and the defense industrial base far more than imagined by most proponents. But the Pentagon must...
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Navy Warship Is Taking 3D Printer To Sea; Don’t Expect A Revolution
WASHINGTON: The U.S. Navy has put a 3D printer on a warship for the first time. That’s a small revolution but don’t expect world-changing results any time soon. Just ask Lt. Benjamin Kohlmann, a...
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From Afghan Sell-Off To Pacific Build-Up: The Strategy Of Logistics
WASHINGTON: Some 45 football fields and gear worth $5 billion. That’s how much excess inventory and storage room the Defense Logistics Agency has sold or destroyed since the height of the wars in...
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Ripley Vs. Iron Man: Making Exoskeletons Work For the Navy – Soon
WASHINGTON: Advocates of military exoskeletons, from the former chief of Special Operations Command on down, like to invoke Iron Man, Marvel’s iconic armored superhero. But there are other models for...
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Plant DNA & Micron Patterns: DLA Gets High-Tech Vs. Counterfeiters
“There’re a lot of chiselers out there,” Vice Adm. Mark Harnitchek sighed. Congressional angst over counterfeit parts has understandably focused on ersatz electronics, many of them from much-mistrusted...
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TransCom Rushes Buy Of Ebola Isolation Units; 60 Days From Idea To Test
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon’s Transportation Command — the folks who move most everything for the military from Point A to Point B — are testing a new isolation unit to fit in a C-17 or C-130 aircraft,...
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