Network Centric Logistics
Abstract
Focused Logistics is one of four key tenets of both JV2010 and JV2020. With information superiority as its basis, JV2010 and JV2020 provide a framework to leverage technological advances. Optimum information architectures, which allow information to flow effectively between Joint and coalition air-, land- and sea-based forces, must be fielded to enable precision war fighting and ensure victory with minimal assets and lowest possible losses. Focused Logistics will be the fusion of information, logistics and transportation technologies to provide rapid crisis response, to track and shift assets even while en route, and to deliver tailored logistics packages and sustainment directly at the strategic, tactical and operational level of operations. Net-centric Warfare has evolved based on a co-evolution of economics, information technology, and business processes and organizations. These processes are linked by the shift in focus from the platform to the network, the shift from viewing actors as independent to viewing them as part of a continuously adapting ecosystem, and the importance of making strategic choices to adapt or even survive in such changing ecosystems. This paper will use net-centric warfare concepts to recommend changes in order to present an integrated concept toward achieving the Focused Logistics tenet of JV2020.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 2001
- Accession Number
- ADA391208
Entities
People
- Jeremiah X. Mcenerney
Organizations
- United States Army War College