2015-03-22 By Robbin Laird UID and RFID technologies have been important enablers of change in the world of logistics. But one can be forgiven for confusing the technology with the outcome. The new technologies can provide sensor data on things in motion; the challenge is to turn that data into…
2015-03-15 The F-35 is not simply a replacement airplane; it is a 21st century air combat system embedded within a unique global enterprise. On the one hand, the commonality of the software on the F-35 allows for allies to develop missiles for "their" F-35s and have "their" missiles available for…
2015-03-10 In an interesting piece published in the Air and Space Power Journal, Dr. Robert C. Owen takes a look at how to rethink tanking support for deployed forces. We have focused in our book The Remaking of American Military Power in the Pacific and in various analytical pieces and…
2015-03-17 By Robbin Laird The introduction of new sensors into the supply chain has provided a solid basis for starting to think differently about how to manage the supply chain and the entire logistics custodial system. As Secretary Wynne underscored in his interview on the start of an industry, the…
2015-03-04 By Robbin Laird The F-35 program has been built around a very different manufacturing model for fighter jets, more modeled on what an Airbus would do than the more traditional station build approach. The F-35 is to be built on three final assembly lines (FALs)– Fort Worth, Cameri, and…
2015-03-06 Recently an Atlas A400M of the French Air Force flew to the United Arab Emirates to deliver cargo to the French military. According, to the FAF: The A400M demonstrates a bit more each day its extraordinary capacity for projection. It can fulfill this type of mission without stoping…
2015-03-06 On March 2, 2015, the A400M Atlas touched down in French Polynesia. Currently, the French forces use two CN-235s to provide the means to link up with the five Polynesian archipelagos. There is a French Air Force detachment of 190 at Tahiti's Faa'a airfield. The flight from New Caledonia…
2015-03-01 When the F-35 is discussed, subsumed in the discussion is the evolution of defense supply chains. The F-35 is built around global supply chains, and the digital systems by which the aircraft is built is rooted in a triangular relationship among the digital systems used by suppliers, the final…
