• Shortfalls created by the elimination of the maneuver enhancement brigade (MEB) brigade support battalion (BSB).

This decision placed a high demand on EAB sustainment organizations to provide these functions, but Army leaders determined that the shift maintained a prudent level of risk.THE ANALYSISCASCOM conducted its analysis with the goal of designing sustainment structure and capabilities to meet the needs of the Army of 2020 in an era of fiscal austerity. aboard the guided-missile cruiser USS Cape St. George from the Military Sealift Command dry cargo and ammunition What you need to focus on is describing the enemy, not predicting them. They don't only sustain the Army; they sustain the joint force as well as our coalition partners.In many ways, they are what makes the Army strategic because we can project national power anywhere in the world.

One is that we learned that you can't predict where you're going to fight. The derivative COA became the CASCOM recommended COA and was approved by the TRADOC commander, Gen. Robert Cone, on Aug. 24, 2012.THE CONCEPT OF SUPPORTWhen Gen. Cone approved the CASCOM-recommended COA, he agreed to significant changes in Army sustainment. Modern warfare is three dimensional, and Army forces conduct a fluid mix of simultaneous offensive, defensive, and stability operations and support to civil authorities.In the past 12 years, the Army evolved while fighting two simultaneous conflicts and transitioning from the Army of Excellence force structure to a modular force.Lessons learned from the conflicts allowed leaders and Soldiers to better understand sustainment's role in future Army operations.Recognizing future challenges, the chief of staff of the Army, Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, tasked senior leaders to identify force management gaps and some mitigating strategies for effectively developing the force within current constraints.Leaders ultimately identified more than 200 potential force design updates for possible consideration in Total Army Analysis (TAA) 14-18.THE GUIDANCEThe 2012 Army Campaign Plan identified a major objective of creating "an Army 2020 force that is: affordable, agile, capable, networked, responsive and adaptive, able to address the complex future operating environment characterized by complex, hybrid threats and demanding missions." Consequently, changes from some previous unpublished decisions and the acceleration of new decisions appear uncoordinated or sporadic as they are implemented.Sustainment must make adjustments at the same pace as BCTs to ensure that there are no gaps at home station or on the battlefield. replenishment-at-sea mission with the USNS Patuxent under way in the Gulf of Aden, May 4, 2012. Over 24 months ago, the Army rewrote its Capstone Concept, which in turn created the need to rewrite the Army’s Functional Concept for Sustainment.

So it's much more collaborative. from a landing craft from the amphibious assault ship USS Tarawa (LHA 1) in preparation for an upcoming amphibious MASTER OF MILITARY ART AND SCIENCE . In turn, these division and corps CSSBs have the added responsibility of providing general support to units within corps or division areas of responsibility.Gaining synergy through area support is essential to balance the Army and maintain an effective force.

A thesis presented to the Faculty of the U.S. Army . Sustainment is the provision of the logistics, personnel services, and health service support necessary to maintain operations until mission accomplishment. I just spent last week in Europe. So, one of the things we said is, "What is the enemy going to do?" The Army Sustainment Virtual Playbook (SVPB) is an interactive, mobile, eLearning solution to living doctrine.

The eight principles of sustainment (logistics) are essential to maintaining combat power, enabling strategic and operational reach, and providing Army forces with endurance. assault landing demonstration for Exercise Bright Star in Mubarek Military City, Egypt, on Sept. 13, 2005. Sustainment units assigned a mission in general support can weight the division or corps commander's main effort by shifting resources.A CSSB can have mission command of up to seven companies, so it can be tailored with integrated capabilities to provide additional supply, ammunition, fuel, water, transportation, mortuary affairs, field services, aerial delivery, financial management, and human resources management. For example, TAA 14-18 eliminated the BSB from the MEB. [In the Army Operating Concept] we say the future is unknown, unknowable, and constantly changing. ASD(L&MR) Interview by Defense AT&L Magazine, CENTCOM Quarterly Contractor Census Report, DOD joins with other agencies to form Federal Consortium for Advanced Batteries (FCAB), Departments of Defense and Energy Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Enhance Energy Resilience, Center for Joint & Strategic Logistics (CJSL).

• Integrating special operations and conventional forces. It is focused differently.While you're in war, situations are going to change rapidly and you are going to have to innovate to keep up with them. Afghan truck drivers pause after unloading bags of grain from a jingle truck during Operation • Improving echelons-above-brigade (EAB) mission command. Other gaps were fuel distribution shortfalls within division areas, organic mission command shortfalls in the SBCT, property accountability, and theater petroleum distribution and planning.Changes to the BCT structure, including the addition of a third maneuver battalion, the transition of the special troops battalion to a brigade engineer battalion, and the addition of an engineer battalion in the SBCT, caused significant growth in the size of the BCTs.To keep the BCTs deployable and averaging 4,500 Soldiers, and to keep the total Active component force limited to 490,000, the Army identified sustainment capabilities that could be moved out of the BCT: water purification, bulk fuel distribution, bulk fuel storage, and troop movement capability in the IBCT. What our logisticians bring is our ability to strategically deploy and sustain ourselves. This reduced fuel distribution and eliminated stationary fuel storage, water production, and troop transport capability in the IBCT. CASCOM's redesigns for the sustainment forces of Army 2020 use fiscal year 2017 as a baseline.As a result, many of the changes made to unit tables of organization and equipment for 2020 will take two to four years to be implemented for the current forces.