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Parent topics

• Inventory [r]: Resources, for manufacture, sale, or distribution in the same organization, in the possession of a holding organization; they represent a capital expenditure for acquisition ^[e]
• Combat service support [r]: Add brief definition or description

Subtopics

Management

• Army Battle Command System [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Battle Command and Sustainment Support System [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Enhanced Position Location Reporting System [r]: A portable or vehicle-mounted U.S. Army device that transmits friendly force positions for command and control, fires with precision-guided munitions, and logistical support ^[e]
• Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below [r]: Add brief definition or description

Inventory

• Just-In-Time inventory [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ammunition storage point [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Form factor [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Line Replaceable Unit [r]: A component of a complex system, such as an aircraft or mobile radar, which can be replaced, in the field, quickly and using few tools. Families of such components minimize the number of form factors and connectors used. ^[e]

Distribution

• Strategic mobility [r]: The ability of an item to be air-transported aboard long-range transport aircraft, preferably not limited to those specifically built to handle oversized cargo; an ideal target is a general commercial cargo aircraft such as the Boeing 747F ^[e]
  • Air mobility [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United States Transportation Command [r]: The single point of contact and operations for transportation services, by land, air, and sea, for the U.S. Department of Defense ^[e]

Sea

• Administrative loading [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Combat loading [r]: A method of loading cargo into ships that will carry it to amphibious landing sites, such that can be unloaded in a manner optimized to meet the operational needs of combat rather than maximizing the utilization of the ship's cargo space ^[e]
• Prepositioning ship [r]: Military cargo ships, normally in squadrons of several vessels, that are prepositioned at secure forward locations, in order to speed delivery of sustainment supplies to the initial forces landed by air or from combat amphibious warfare ships. ^[e]
• Joint High Speed Vessel [r]: Jointly developed by the United States Navy and U.S. Army, a high-speed, shallow-water transport ship intended for intra-theater logistics support in littoral operations ^[e]
• Ships Taken Up From Trade [r]: A British practice, used extensively during the Falklands War, of chartering civilian ships to provide additional military sealift ^[e]
• Civil Reserve Air Fleet [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Underway replenishment [r]: A series of techniques, introduced in the Second World War, for keeping warships in constant operation by resupplying them at sea; challenging both in the pure seamanship of the transfer, and the logistical system that brings supplies to the ships ^[e]
  • Connected replenishment [r]: A subset of underway replenishment, in which the supply ship and the warship being resupplied stay in a close formation, making transfers with hoses for fuel, and ropes and cables lifting equipment and baskets of supplies. Requires an extremely high level of seamanship ^[e]
  • Vertical replenishment [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• Operation Desert Storm [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Charles Krulak [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Outsourcing [r]: Add brief definition or description