The Air Force has just launched a three-year “deep dive” to better understand and control its logistics costs, said Lt. Gen. Judith Fedder, deputy chief of staff for logistics, installations, and mission support, Thursday. Fedder told the audience attending her Air Force Association-Air Force Breakfast Program talk in Arlington Va., that the logistics enterprise is in need of a scrub. “We know we have excess capacity—or capacity that’s not righty placed,” she said. Three main areas are getting attention: strengthening and implementing repair-network integration—which Fedder said is targeted for completion in two years; understanding the cost of logistics; and “getting acquisition logistics professionals embedded in program offices.” She told the Daily Report after the May 17 event that there are “specific milestones,” for analyzing the enterprise over the next 36 months, but no dollar savings targets have been set. “We haven’t put that stake in the ground, but we may impose that on ourselves,” she said. The emphasis will be on “defining the end state” of what Air Force logistics ought to be, she noted.
The Air Force is shoring up its cyber defenses both on and off base for critical infrastructure such as water and electrical power, and industry experts are calling for more, even specialized, dedicated microgrids offsite to support USAF operations in case of a total blackout caused by cyberattacks.
