CLI/JLI 2013

Concepts and Plans NCMS Team

October 2012

Problem Statement • Declining defense budgets • Limited strategic and theater mobility • Increasing asymmetric threats to vehicle convoys,

sea and air transport capabilities • Diverse arrays of equipment that need logistical

support: o Maintenance o Servicing o Supply support

• National or service-based information systems that are incompatible

Resolution • Integrate Logistics capabilities across joint services,

allied forces, and commercial industry o Increase utility of deployed maintenance capabilities and supplies o Reduce “redundant redundancy”

• Reduce deployment footprint • Reduce in-theater transportation requirements • Reduce in-theater management and inventory requirements of stocks

o Capitalize on investments in equipment interoperability and commonality of parts

• Improve ability for organizations to: o “Cross-service” each other <OR> o Form combined logistics organizations (i.e. FOB maintenance or supply)

Policy & Guidance

2010: US Joint Staff “Joint Logistics Enterprise*” requires mutual support to Multinational Partners and use of Standard Data

2012: US Offers to be Lead Nation for 7 Multinational Approaches (MNA) Task Force “Smart Defence” projects**

2012: U.S. Presidential guidance states: “In this resource-constrained era, we will also work with NATO allies to develop a “Smart Defense” approach to pool, share, and specialize capabilities as needed to meet 21st century challenges”***

*Joint Concept for Logistics, 6 August 2010 ** DEPSECDEF Carter Letter to NATO Supreme Allied Commander for Transformation, 23 Jun 2012 *** Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense, January 2012

Methods • Standardize data exchanges to allow transactions

and Serialized Item Management (SIM) o Allows each organization to use existing Automated Information System (AIS) o Use defined standards as the foundation of these exchanges

• Enable advertisement for available logistics services or supplies o Advertise excess or shareable supplies or services o Broadcast deficiencies to potential suppliers o Integrate advertisement with transactions in supply, maintenance or

financial AIS

• Extend flow of data beyond Logistics community to overall Command and Control (C2) to support collaborative planning and decision support

Foundation • Initiatives

o USMC Sense & Respond Logistics o NATO Life Cycle Management Group (AC/327) Working Group 5

• Capabilities

o Shareable Operational Resources Tool (SORT) • NATO Hosted (www) • ELVS (Closed Network)

o PLCS • M&R DEX • Item Identification DEX

• Previous demonstrations o CWIX 2011/2012 o EXLOG Wargame

Overall CLI/JLI concept • Develop and demonstrate interoperability of data

between Marine Corps, Joint, and Coalition (NATO) AIS related to equipment accountability, status, and maintenance

• Goal is to achieve interoperability between 3 relevant, defined information models and exchange standards o PLCS for Life Cycle Management o TSOA for Marine Corps C2/Ops o OLCM for NATO Logistics/C2

Current “Point to Point” AIS Interfaces

Increasing Complexity

Nation A

Nation B

NATO

Nation C

Nation D

Nation E

Information exchange service

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Point to Pond

“Pond” to “Pond” National MMIS

National ERP

National PLM

NATO/National LOGAIS

NATO C2

USMC C2

USMC LOGAIS

“Pond to Pond” Benefits • Enables any AIS to share data within its domain

given the ability to maintain an interface with the defined standard o Enables inter-organizational visibility/transactions using current AIS o Reduces the complexity of interfaces o Insulates each AIS from other changes in other AIS

• Simplifies information exchanges across domains through standardized message transformations o Enables discovery of new data from original/trusted source o Reduces redundant data in each domain o Isolates AIS from changes in other AIS or standards in other domains

CLI/JLI Demonstrations • CAPABLE LOGISTICIAN 13 (CL13)

o Take “production-ready” capabilities to demonstrate with partners and live forces • Demonstrated scenarios/capabilities from CWIX 11 or 12 trials

o IRAMP (M&R DEX) • Work with OLCM group to integrate into scenario and with available

partners/forces

• CWIX 13 o Incubator for new capabilities with partners o Goal is to demonstrate NATO/national interoperability using OLCM and PLCS o Scenario is a Coalition Maintenance Capability (CMC), non-doctrinal term

• Could be one nation or a pool of nations performing maintenance on coalition equipment in a temporarily combined organization

• CMC uses a generic national Maintenance & Material support Information System (MMIS)

o Trials: • Perform parts requisition from AAMMP to national system using TBD PLCS DEX • Affect maintenance with AAMMP, provide maintenance record to national AIS

using enhanced M&R DEX • Provide equipment status updates to LOGFAS/NALES using OLCM messaging

Transformations

CLI/JLI Demonstrations (Cont.)

• USMC EXLOG Wargame o Goals:

• Provide a proof of concept of exchanges between PLCS and TSOA standards for common data over TSOA infrastructure

• Provide a MMIS to MMIS exchange of M&R data over the TSOA infrastructure o Trials:

• 1: Exchange equipment status and location change data from MMIS in PLCS (M&R DEX) format to C2 AIS in TSOA formats

• 2: Perform 2-directional exchanges of M&R data in PLCS format over the TSOA infrastructure

MMIS C2 (COP) (TSOA) TSOA (Infrastructure)

Transformations MMIS 1 (ERP)

MMIS 2 (TSOA) TSOA (Infrastructure) Transformation

(TSOA)

CWIX

CAP LOG

EXLOG

High Level Architecture Advertisement of Logistics Need or Shareable Resource

Military “A”

Military “B”

Host Nation

NGO

Transact Logistics Resources (WWW or Closed Network)

National MMIS

USERS

USMC

TSOA

C2/ COP

SCS (Wholesale Supply)

Depot MMIS

MDR (LSA/Usage)

WAWF/ UID Registry

NATO

SORT/ ELVS

LOGFAS/ NALES

C2/ COP