1. In-threatre Logistics & Asset Visibility
The "last tactical mile" presents the most challenging logistical support constraints. How do you provide supply and support to a diffused battlefield? Providing total visibility and accountability of all supply chain assets in-theatre increases warfighter support and reduces warfighter risk.
Program Highlight:
Panel Discussion: Strategies for increasing in-theater logistics support Major General Yves J. Fontaine, Commanding General, US Army sustainment command.
2. Reset, recovery & reconstitution
The military must overcome the obstacles associated with the drawdown in Iraq the buildup in Afghanistan to rapidly retrograde equipment from theater and facilitate the repair, redistribution and life cycle management of equipment.
Program Highlight:
Panel Discussion: Post Iraq retrograde, reset & reconstitution Major General Raymond Mason, Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, US Army forces command
3. Joint, Interagency & Coalition Logistics
Operations Desert Storm, Iraqi Freedom, and Enduring Freedom revealed that Joint and Service logistics processes and systems that could not communicate with each other resulted in order-fulfillment lag times, redundant resources, choked supply pipelines and uncertainty for the warfighter.
Program Highlight:
Posturing Joint Logistics for the Future Lieutenant General Kathleen M. Gainey, Director for Logistics, J-4, The Joint Staff
4. Adapting To The New Budget Environment
The new administration is focusing on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of their internal business policies as well as looking for eery possible cost efficiency strategy that they can employ within the defense budget.
Program Highlight:
Defense Logistics - An OSD Perspective Alan Estevez, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Logistics & Materiel Readiness), US Department of Defense