Joint Logistics Officer Development

19 November 2006

Joint Logistics Education…Concepts to Capabilities

Evaluate & Model to identify

gaps and excesses

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Develop Vision of Joint Logistician’s

role in Future

Build DoD Logistics Education Portfolio

Identify Joint Logistics

Professional Competencies (capabilities)

Service Specific Logistician

Development Plans built in a joint

context delivering fully qualified and

inherently joint logisticians

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Joint Logistics Officer Development

• Goal– Develop Joint Qualified Officers equipped to synchronize a joint

logistics effort across the range of military options (ROMO) in support of the JFC.

• Objective– Produce the largest possible body of fully qualified and

inherently joint logistics officers suitable for joint command and staff responsibilities throughout the DoD Supply Chain.

• Premise– Competency-based, lifelong continuum of learning

• Focal Point– Colonels and Captains (O-6 community)

• With participation by Multi-Departmental Civil Service, Multi-National Officers and Contractors

Some of the players

Army War College

What is going on

• TRANSCOM/JFCOM shared vision for joint logistics education

• Multiple Studies– TRANSCOM/Accenture study to build competency

model for Joint Logistics Officers…briefing Gen Schwartz on 7 Nov

– Army/RAND study just started– Air Force Wexford-model recently completed– OSD study on civilian logistician competency paused,

awaiting re-award of contract• Special Area of Emphasis (SAE) approved for

2006 & 2007

What is going on

• Army Logistics Management College (ALMC)– Becoming central point of all Army logistics education– Joint Logistics Course/Supply Chain Overview/Multi-national

logistics courses• Army/SOLE competency certification program• Marines & Army have partnerships with PSU logistics

certification program• LOGTECH program • DAU has a logistics professional training track open to all

services and an active web based logistics community of practice (contingency contracting)

• ICAF teaching Supply Chain Management concentration with graduates headed to COCOMS (17 graduates 2006, 26 students in 2007)

Big Decisions

• Is time to establish Defense Logistics University?– COA 1 Brick and Mortar – COA 2 Virtual– Lead DoD institution (ICAF, NDU, DAU or Other)

• Joint Logistics Professional Development Board of Directors Chair (TRANSCOM, JFCOM, DJ4, or DLA) and participants

• Who would own a logistics education capability portfolio• Joint Logistics Operator (JLO)…TRANSCOM pursuing development

of separate JLO career track vs. idea of Service logisticians built in a joint context

• Time to change the charters from teaching doctrine to teaching emerging concepts

• How much logistics education should be in JPME I, II and III

Questions for educators

• How do we integrate education exercises into real world exercise/planning events? (Army War College Strategic Decision Making Exercise 2007)

• Can we inject real world shortfalls (ISR/Material/Strategic Lift/Secure Communications) into education exercise to find unique solutions? How do we feed back the lesson learned or unique student solutions to planning staffs?

• How do we teach doctrine as a point of departure? How do we teach emerging concepts?

• Can schools solve real world problems while students learn. Marine Corps University working on amphibious assault doctrine in advance WW II.

The way ahead

• Actions– Education Day with Community of Practice (JS, TRANSCOM, JFCOM, NDU, ICAF, DAU…– Develop working Capstone Concept/Vision for Joint Logistics Professionals (2012 – 2025)– Identify Joint Logistics Education Board of Directors (need a charter)– Identify Integrated Process Team (need a charter)– Identify the DoD Logistics Education Stakeholders and Community of Practice– Build DoD Logistics Education Portfolio

• Who, what, when and where logistics education is being delivered?• Are the training objectives developed in a joint context? • Who is attending and where are they being assigned now? • How many so we need?• Identify target audience (officers, senior enlisted, government (interagency), contractors, multi-national)• Identify involved communities (Supply Corps, Quartermasters, Transporters, Ordnance, Maintenance, Logistics,

Engineering, Medical Service Corps). Involved communities may differ between Services.– Identify joint logistics competencies necessary to be successful logistics planners on a Joint Staff,

CoCOM, or JTF• Develop associated knowledge, skills, abilities and attitudes• Identify when and where Service logisticians should learn and practice these joint competencies . Again this may be

different for each Service.– Evaluate and model Joint Logistics Education program

• Identify gaps, shortages, and overmatches• Capacity, Throughput, Timing