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“Every service, every combatant command, and every regional command is reevaluating themselves — their equipment, warfighting concepts, organizational structure, etc. — and how they intend to accomplish wartime objectives," Army Lt. Gen. Mark Simerly said in his first meeting of DLA Industry Association leaders at DLA headquarters.” “Industry partners are indispensable as DLA assesses its posture and ability to support warfighters with precision, he added. As it adjusts resource models to increase flexibility, DLA must improve its ability to forecast military requirements that it shares with suppliers annually.” Let’s read that again shall we? “….INDESPENSIBLE…..THAT IT SHARES WITH SUPPLIERS ANNUALLY….” (Thank you sir for “getting it!”) If it’s Not “shared”, then why is the below a surprise to any one? We don’t need a consultant to figure it out, we need communication on the forecast and WE WILL figure it out. Complete Shocker>>>>”The agency's industrial base shrank from 12,000 suppliers in 2016 to just 8,500 in 2023, but Beebe said the rate of decline is slowing. In 2023, DLA hired a consultant to study the trend and its likely causes.” #really

Asserting that the nation is “at a critical junction in national security,” a senior DoD official said that the defense industrial base is the “engine of strategic innovation.” Speaking Jan. 15 at an Association of the U.S. Army Hot Topic titled “Connecting the Industrial Base to the Tactical Edge,” Vic Ramdass, principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for industrial base policy, said that industry and the sustainment enterprise must work with DoD to make a difference. #ReadMore: https://loom.ly/k2uqyyc #AUSAorg #AUSA #USArmy #industry #nationalsecurity #logisitics #industrialbase #supplychain

ATTENTION Industry Partners! The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization (DITCO) recently released the Army’s Comprehensive Modernization (COMPMOD) Request for Proposal (RFP) against the ENCORE III contract. The RFP Closing Date is June 17, 2024. The COMPMOD acquisition will provide a flexible resource to enable the Government to implement DoD unified capabilities to seamlessly integrate all forms of IT capabilities into a converged enterprise system. It will fundamentally change the Army’s approach to delivering a modernized network for voice, video, data, and command center capabilities on classified and unclassified networks. The integration of these technologies offers stakeholders flexibility, mobility, security, and efficiency. Be sure to respond by June 17! To access the Encore III portal, a valid username and password are required. Contact your organization's POC to request access. ASA(ALT) U.S. Army Acquisition Support Center (USAASC) Army Futures Command U.S. Army DEVCOM C5ISR Center #ArmyModernization #FutureArmy

#News As part of the United States Air Force Great Power Competition initiative, the service is organizing its major commands into Institutional Commands, responsible for organizing, training, and equipping Airmen, and Service Component Commands, responsible for preparing Airmen for warfighting in a combatant command’s area of responsibility. As an institutional command, AFMC will consolidate and establish new centers to rapidly develop, procure, field and sustain a pipeline of competitive capabilities to deliver decisive advantages to the force. What does this look like? Check out the story to learn more! #USAF #DAFGPC #defense #airforce

More on the “Great Power Competition” re-optimization. While it is easy to dismiss moments like this as “just another reorganization” in a long chain of them and interpret it as an indication that the existing structure was somehow “wrong,” history shows us that it is necessary for organizations to pivot as their context changes. It is the ones that don’t react to new circumstances until it is too late that have failed. You wouldn’t expect the same structure used during the 1930s to be ideal for fighting World War II, or one optimized to counter the Soviet Union to be equally adept when lacking a peer competitor in the 1990s. Or look at the late 1950s - the Air Force (and military in general) failed to appreciate the coming significance of technology investment leading up to the “Sputnik revolution,” which overnight forced wholesale changes to the role of R&D, and “modernization,” and a pivot to “space” for which the Air Force was organizationally unprepared.

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Integrated Fires Mission Command (IFMC), keep chopping that wood! #LeadersLEAD #HoldTheRope Recent words below from our senior Army Air Defender…well said, sir! #IBCS must continually evolve to meet the demands of modern threats. “Eventually, by 2030, we have to integrate all the way from counter-UAS capability in our IBCS maneuver all the way up to tactical ballistic missiles. It has to be seamless,” LTG Sean Gainey, head of U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, said during an Association of the United States Army - AUSA discussion on Tuesday. “So when we employ [our air defense] capability, we can no longer employ it in isolation where you have a counter-UAS battery, a #Patriot unit and then a counter-cruise missile unit. The way the adversary is fighting [and] what we’re seeing in Ukraine and other locations is they’re going to come at you [from] 360 [degrees]. And that operator has to have the ability to leverage a counter-UAS effector, a counter-cruise missile effector and a [ballistic] missile effector while saving his resources for the appropriate effect,”…

Data data #dataeverywhere. Another case for incorporating #Dataliteracy into #PME. Some generational knowledge transactions might be overlooked with the emergence of new conditions that didn’t present themselves the same way. Doesn’t necessarily mean they’re (OGs and Newbs alike) doing it wrong or inefficiently. Advanced thinking skills must adapt within the parameters available cross generational no matter what the term du jour conveys. The passion and determination to make data-driven decisions is the same. This is a great way to think about understanding the world. In this case how spending or not spending can provide information to decision makers. Matt Rasmussen thanks for the share U.S. Army Command and General Staff College U.S. Army Combined Arms Center

IT IS CRITICAL AND URGENT! DO YOU KNOW if you need to be #CMMC compliant? Please answer below. As I have been presenting across the country I am finding out that many companies that require CMMC do not realize that they need to become CMMC compliant or even have heard about what CMMC compliance is. So I thought that I would share a list of items that can help you know if you need to become CMMC compliant. 1. You are currently doing contract work directly with any #DoD branch (Army, Navy, Airforce, etc). 2. You are currently doing contract work with a company that has a contract with the DOD. 3. You support a company that does contract or subcontract work for the DOD 4. You have been asked by your supplier how far you are on #NIST800171 compliant 5. You have Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) 6. You would like to work with the federal government on #defence contracts in the future 7. You have been asked by your Prime contractor if you have a #SPRS (Supplier Performance Risk System) score. If any of these items are true then you will need to become CMMC #compliant please contact us for help - We are ready to be your ally in CMMC https://lnkd.in/dySx2GD