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Defense Systems
October 18, 2006
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LOGISTICS + EFFICIENCY = POWER
It is no longer enough for the United States to have the world’s most effective and capable logistics infrastructure or even the world’s mightiest military. In fact, to win the long-term war on terrorism, we must build the world’s most cost-effective military.

PICKING UP POINTERS FROM MICK JAGGER
To be successful, large-scale systems implementations must deliver technologically robust solutions and achieve buy-in from users. Seems obvious, right? But how to achieve those ends is less so.

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TO BOLSTER SENSE-AND-RESPOND, SKIP THE ACQUISITION PHASE
Conducting network-centric operations means getting precisely desired effects by orchestrating widely distributed participants, via a network. The Defense Department’s Sense and Respond Logistics Concept—finding and delivering exactly the supply needed when needed—fits hand in glove with net-centricity.

DISA’S ALFRED RIVERA WANTS YOU (WELL, YOUR PROCESSING, ANYHOW)
The Defense Information Systems Agency’s Center for Computing Services wants your business so badly that officials are willing to present a business case to prove that DISA makes more economic sense than outsourcing.

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EASY AS 1, 2, 3: DISA TAKES AN ABC APROACH TO COLLABORATION
Under the Defense Information Systems Agency’s ABC systems strategy—Adopt from elsewhere as the first choice, Buy second, Create only as a last resort—DISA is promoting industry competition to give Defense Department users a second choice among collaboration services.

DLA AND TRANSCOM UNITE SUPPLY CHAIN EFFORTS
The Transportation Command and the Defense Logistics Agency have created a new program office that unites TRANSCOM’s Global Transportation Network (GTN) program and DLA’s Integrated Data Environment (IDE) initiative.

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