MILITARY OPERATIONAL LOGISTICS

capabilities

We provide logistics studies and analyses, program support, and modeling and simulation related to the processes, procedures, and capabilities needed to deploy and sustain military units and weapon systems in military theaters of operations. We support the following operational logistics program areas:

CLIENTS AND SOLUTIONS

U.S. Army—Bolstering Military Force Projection

The military must react quickly to rising dangers worldwide. For more than 16 years, LMI has helped formulate and execute programs for military forces rapidly deploying to overseas theaters. Our work has been the foundation for Army decisions on a range of critical issues such as modernization of infrastructure at bases and ports, procuring railcars and containers, design of sealift vessels, overseas pre-positioning of equipment, and use of high-speed vessels—all factors that contributed to the speed and precision of Operation Iraqi Freedom deployments and subsequent sustainment operations.

U.S. Army—Enhancing Strategic Responsiveness

Since the early 1990s, we have provided research, analysis, and program assessments for strategic responsiveness programs. We continue to support the Army as it compresses its strategic responsiveness goals to meet ever-increasing worldwide challenges. While prosecuting the global war on terrorism, it wants the capability to deploy a combat force to a distant theater in 10 days, defeat an enemy within 30 days, and stand ready for an additional fight within another 30 days. This deployment requires increased air, sea, and land capabilities. We are helping build the program to meet these goals. We also support the Army abroad—particularly in Korea, Kuwait, Iraq, Qatar, and Afghanistan—providing on-site logistics advice to the Army Materiel Command commanders in the field before, during, and after hostilities and developing maintenance and support plans for the Army’s forces and equipment.

U.S. Army—Developing Future Combat System

The U.S. military’s challenge is to develop flexible, effective, and efficient multimission forces capable of projecting overwhelming military power worldwide. The Army’s Future Combat System, System of Systems (FCS SoS), the major combat enabler for the FCS Brigade Combat Team, can meet this challenge. The government has teamed with an industry lead system integrator (LSI) to develop the capability to rapidly project, immediately employ, and independently sustain a full-spectrum decisive ground force anywhere in the world within days. LMI is an integral member of the LSI team that is developing the FCS SoS. Through our efforts, FCS SoS will enhance the logistics supportability of future forces by reducing the logistics footprint, improving strategic responsiveness, and lowering logistics costs while greatly increasing the military's warfighting capability and readiness.

Various Clients—Supporting International Programs

The Department of Defense, Department of State, U.S. Agency for International Development, non-government U.S. agencies, other nations and multinational defense agencies recognize a need to transform to respond to worldwide challenges that result from natural and manmade causes and conflicts. This transformation requires organizations that create and nurture collective nation building, natural disaster relief and reconstruction, warfighting and warfighting relief, and reconstruction as core competencies. We are currently supporting various elements of the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Army, NATO, and ministries of defense in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and other multinational organizations in adapting to technological, political, and organizational change.

OSD, Joint Staff, and U.S. Army—Transforming Logistics

The Department of Defense wants to transform its armed forces to dramatically increase logistics responsiveness, deployability, operational speed, and global reach; to achieve increased force effectiveness, precision, lethality, tailorability, agility, survivability, and sustainability; and to fight the nation’s global war on terrorism concurrently. There will be no transformation in warfighting without a transformation in logistics. LMI is linked directly to DoD logistics transformation programs, actively supporting the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff J-4, J-8, Army G-4, and combatant command clients that are advancing America’s defense logistics capabilities. LMI operates on the leading edge of change. Over the past year, we continued to provide operationally effective and cost-efficient approaches to key current military logistics issues.

DARPA and DISA—Demonstrating Advanced Technology

We are upgrading logistics through exploration and development of advanced technologies. For example, we have helped the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency and Defense Information Support Agency improve DoD logistics processes by supporting logistics advanced concept technology demonstrations (ACTDs), such as the Advanced Logistics Program, which involved automated logistics plans; the Joint Theater Logistics project, which used advanced technology to improve joint theater logistics practices; and the ongoing Coalition Theater Logistics project, which enhances the effectiveness and efficiency of logistics support among coalition partners.