US Transportation Command officials hosted efficiency experts from Toyota at Scott AFB, Ill., last month to glean commercial best practices from one of the world’s top car manufacturer and apply them to TRANSCOM logistics processes and operations. A command news release noted that Toyota had “developed a successful and systematic approach to doing business which is based on the concept of continuous improvement.” Earlier this year, TRANSCOM took a gander at the Wal-Mart approach.
In order to deny China “sanctuaries” from which it can launch air and missile salvos during a potential invasion of Taiwan, the U.S. Air Force needs to buy far more B-21 bombers and F-47 fighters than currently planned, according to a new report from AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
