DPO initiative is the beginning of joint theater logistics
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SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. (USTCNS - Jun 8, 2004) -- A team of logisticians deployed in support of U.S. Central Command have avoided millions of taxpayer dollars being spent by synchronizing troop and materiel movement during the largest U.S. force rotation since World War II, according to Maj.Gen. Robert Dail, director of operations, U.S. Transportation Command.
"The logisticians, including representatives from USTRANSCOM, the Defense Logistics Agency and the services, deployed in January as one of the first steps following USTRANSCOM's designation as the Defense Department's Distribution Process Owner. They initiated new ways to synchronize wartime commodity distribution and began bridging seams between the strategic and tactical planning levels," Dail said.
The 63-member CENTCOM Deployment and Distribution Operations Center (CDDOC) brought capabilities never employed so close to the fight. Now on its second rotation of personnel, the CDDOC is evolving from a pilot-program into a sought after capability by other combatant commands.
According to Dail, "this initiative is the first step toward achieving a joint theater logistics capability."
Working with the Army and the Marine Corps, the CDDOC expedited the processing, shipment and the in-transit visibility of retrograde bound for depot level maintenance, Dail explained. "In the month of May we executed the retrograde of over 420 containers of unserviceable spare parts."
According to Dail, "not only is the Army receiving its retrograde cargo, but as a result of the CDDOC management of transportation into the theater the Army alone has avoided transportation costs in fiscal year 2004 close to $400 million."
This cost avoidance is attributed to increased use of sealift, early planning and focused logistics, he added.
The CDDOC also has enabled the visibility needed to divert and schedule strategic-to-tactical throughput directly to forward-based ground units.
"We now routinely schedule airlift to forward locations delivering supplies that are packaged for consumption by units - reducing the handling and reconfiguration requirements," Dail said.
A team of six deployed logisticians, enabled similar logistics efficiencies during recent Haiti operations. "The concept (for the forward-DDOC) is situational and mission dependent, and capabilities driven," according to Dail.
Dail said that plans are being developed to enable the same sorts of synchronization and efficiencies in support of annual exercises in Korea. Lessons learned are continually being collected and analyzed for immediate implementation and codified for inclusion in future doctrine.
"This summer the CDDOC will focus on ways to better integrate the full range of transportation capabilities with the commercial sector in the United States," Dail added. "This will give us even more options to satisfy the combatant commander's requirements using even a larger tool kit of capabilities."
Since the Secretary of Defense's designation in September 2003 as Distribution Process Owner, USTRANSCOM has had responsibility for coordinating and improving the entire "factory-to-foxhole" transportation and logistics process.
The DPO mission is to improve in-transit visibility, eliminate gaps between the strategic and theater level distribution processes and ultimately to provide the best support humanly possible for the men and women on the front lines in the war on terror. Dail said that speed and efficiency are the defining objectives realized by the CDDOC's initial successes.
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