Exclusive Presentations

Exclusive presentation from Major General Keith D. Reventlow, Commanding General, Marine Corps Logistics Command, which was delivered at the 2023 conference, on Operational Readiness and Sustainment in Support of Force Design 2030 and Installations and Logistics 2030.

An exclusive presentation from the Defense Logistics Agency, which was delivered at the 2023 conference, on Securing the Competitive Edge.

The “Scaling Technology-Driven Logistics and Analytics to Maintain a Decisive Force in a Period of Great Power Rivalry” presentation was delivered by Bruce Busler who is the Director of the USTRANSCOM Joint Distribution Process Analysis Centre (JDPAC) and Executive Director of the SDDC Transportation Engineering Agency (TEA). This presentation covers:

• USTRANSCOM Mission and Priorities
• National Defense Strategy 2022
• Joint Deployment and Distribution Enterprise
• Power Projection Framework
• Global Mobility Capabilities
• Mobility Challenges
• Airlift/Sealift Workload Comparison
• The future of Logistics is Evolving
• Strategic Mobility Ops and the Contested Environment
• Create Decision Advantage
• USTRANSCOM’s Data and Analytic Journey and Needs

The “Defense Industrial Base” presentation was delivered at the 2022 Defense Logistics & Support Conference by Colonel Jason Kalin, Commander, 735th Supply Chain Operations Group who will join us once again this year as he covers Sustaining the Warfighter in the 21st Century: An Air Force Perspective. This presentation covers:

• U.S. Structural Base 
• Defense Industrial Base Consolidation
• European Industrial Consolidation
• 5 Driving Risks 
• Global Supply Chain Competition 

The US DoD is the federal government’s largest agency employing over 2.8 million active military service members and civilian personnel. In order to keep both military and civilian personnel equipped to complete their duties effectively, the DoD relies on the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to manage the global defense supply chain.

This article will look at the work the DLA is doing in 2024, including a glimpse at the challenges they face, and the various supply chains the organization is responsible for, but first, it’s important to take a step back and understand how the agency was formed.