Friday, November 20, 2009

"DoDI 5000.02 and Resource-Informed Army Modernization"

William D. Bajusz, Ph.D. delivered this presentation at the Reliability, Maintainability, Supportability (RMS) Partnership meeting on "DoDI 5000.02 and You:  The Impact on Reliability, Maintainability, Supportability/Logistics and Systems Engineering" involving senior representatives from the services, OSD and industry.  The presentation can be viewed as a SlideShare presentation at www.LinkedIn.com/in/williambajusz.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

“DoDI 5000.02 and Resource-Informed Army Modernization”

William D. Bajusz, Ph.D., Senior Logistics Consultant for Goldbelt Wolf, LLC  will be speaking on “DoDI 5000.02 and Resource-Informed Army Modernization” at the Reliability, Maintainability, and Supportability (RMS) Partnership Industry-Government Workshop & Symposium on November 17-18 at the Waterford in Springfield, VA. I am interested in any comments/observations on this general topic. I will attribute any comments I receive that I include assuming the provider is comfortable with that. Information on the event can be found at http://www.rmspartnership.org.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

What Wasn't Said By the Army Senior Leadership at the Association of the US Army's Annual Meeting

For several months the Chief of Staff of the Army and his senior leaders have emphasized that the Army is "out of balance" -- unable to meet current (and rapidly shifting) commitments and the need for Army Full Spectrum Readiness and Strategic Flexibility.  The goal is to restore that balance.  Yet at AUSA, noticeably absent from the Senior Leadership's briefing charts was the phrase "Full Spectrum Readiness" having been replaced by simple "Readiness."  The main point that the Army is "out of balance" was still there, but the implications seem to be that the Army needs to be ready for something less than Full Spectrum operations.  What operations are being curtailed for the Expeditionary Army?  What are the implications for logistics and sustainment?  Until the Quadrennial Review is public and the Guidance for the Development of the Force (GDF) is promulgated,  these questions will remain unanswered.  Accordingly, today long-range logistics and sustainment planning must proceed in something of a vacuum.

Logistics and Sustainment Senior Advisory Board



Goldbelt Wolf, LLC is pleased to announce the creation of its Logistics and Sustainment Senior Advisory Board. Together, the distinguished members of this board offer our clients and partners over 100 years of excellence and exceptional performance in logistics and sustainment, supply chain management, and enabling technologies in both government and the private sector.

Monday, September 28, 2009

Expeditionary Army Logistics and Sustainment: A Perspective

Against the backdrop of the CSA's imperatives to Sustain, Prepare, Reset, and Transform, any logistics and sustainment initiative now must be viewed within the context of the evolving Core Enterprises:  Readiness, Human Capital, Services and Infrastructure, and Materiel.  Further, thinking about logistics and sustainment must now be viewed in three dimensions not two.  The Army has rightly emphasized holistic and Enterprise-wide perspectives.  To these two dimensions must be added a third:  "whole of government."  Stakeholders extend beyond the DoD.  The obvious example is the Department of Agriculture's impact on retrograde from Iraq.  The Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, and Department of State, among others, should be viewed as stakeholders because their actions potentially have a bearing on Army logistics and sustainment.  Logistics and sustainment planning must be anticipatory -- seeking to incorporate early on these stakeholder interests.

Today, it is important to think as well about how logistics and sustainment guidance, processes, initiaitves and programs can help enable striking a balance between meeting current commitments and ensuring Full Spectrum Readiness and Strategic Flexibility.  The distribution system, for example, that is working well today in Iraq and Afghanistan is not readily adaptable to a Somalia or Korea.  Planning for logistics and sustainment elsewhere on the globe -- over and above that needed for the 124,200 soldiers deployed in nearly 80 countries in addition to Iraq and Afghanistan -- is easily overwhelmed by the press of current events.  The challenge for FYDP planning (and beyond) is to identify pragmatic logistics and sustainment actions that will enable Full Spectrum Readiness and Strategic Flexibility and continue to meet rapidly changing current demands in a fluid policy and constrained budgetary environment.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

About Goldbelt Wolf, LLC

Based in Alexandria, VA, Goldbelt Wolf LLC (http://www.goldbeltwolf.com/)  is a certified Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) 8(a) Alaska Native Corporation (ANC) offering a range of technical and support services to the federal and commercial sectors. Our current clients include the Army, Army National Guard, Air Force, Department of State, the Department of the Treasury and the Environmental Protection Agency.  Our emphasis on quality on cost-competitive terms is reflected in the fact that Goldbelt Wolf received the Department of State's Small Business Award of Excellence in 2008 and the Small Business Administration's Award of Excellence that same year.