text: Chapter 1
  • Maintaining asset visibility of equipment and personnel.
  • Identifying threat mitigations of antiaccess and area denial.
  • Planning to utilize multiple geographically dispersed nodes (personnel and equipment).
  • Understanding and planning for the synchronization of force flow (knowing the friction points).
  • Anticipating use of Army pre-positioned stocks (APS) equipment, load reconfiguration, and
  integration of capabilities.
  • Planning to mitigate Class III (bulk), maintenance, and transportation gaps that may impact
  transition from movement to maneuver.
  • Conducting threat planning and mitigation required to support RSOI operations.
  • Understanding critical infrastructure vulnerable to sabotage and unsuited for the movement of heavy
  equipment along surface LOCs (both road and rail).
  • Establishing fuel, maintenance, and rest locations along LOCs.
  • Establishing security for LOCs to achieve freedom of movement.
  • Planning and integrating OCS and host-nation logistics infrastructure support.
  • Planning for destroyed, delayed, frustrated, and non-mission capable equipment arriving in theater.
  • Incorporating liaison and unit personnel at theater nodes to facilitate onward movement.
  ECHELONED SUSTAINMENT FOR DISTRIBUTED OPERATIONS
  1-46. The application and tactics of widely distributed operations will increase the demands on the
  sustainment enterprise at all echelons. As a result, sustainment forces must maintain effectiveness in
  supporting distributed operations at the cost of efficiency. Ways to achieve this may include—
  • Increased mobility: Sustaining division-focused, widely distributed operations across domains
  requires modernized logistics capabilities operating over diverse, reliable, robust, and resilient
  transportation and distribution systems and networks that consist of multiple modes, multiple nodes,
  and multiple sources.
  • Demand management: Demand management is an essential component of sustainment in the
  context of echeloned sustainment for distributed operations. Echeloned operations refer to the
  deployment of military forces in a series of phases or echelons, with each phase building on the
  previous one to create a layered interdependence towards a defined military outcome. It involves
  managing the flow of resources to ensure that they are available when and where they are needed.
  The goal being to balance or manage the frequency, volume, and responsiveness of supply,
  distribution, redistribution, and retrograde. This is the “art and science” of demand management
  during echeloned operations. This is the most essential component of echeloned sustainment to
  maneuver during large-scale combat operations. It reduces the risk to sustainment forces. Innovative
  measures must reduce reliance on the supply chain, enhance self-sufficiency, and extend operational
  reach as the requirements to conduct regular supply is reduced. Additionally, demand reduction
  applies to materiel design for reduced weight and energy efficiencies as well as commodities and
  lift. Sustainers must exploit technologies to meet requirements at the point of need to reduce delivery
  times and burdens on the distribution network.
  • Active and passive survivability measures: Adversaries will target sustainment forces, units,
  nodes, and capabilities at all echelons. Army forces must adapt operational tactics, techniques, and
  procedures to support operations by improving active and passive measures of protection. At each
  echelon, sustainment forces must integrate with their respective commands’ planning processes. To
  support this, logisticians must develop capabilities for smaller stockpiles, resupply on the move, and
  preposition caches for maneuvering formations. For a division-focused force, organic sustainment
  redundancy at echelon is necessary to meet increased support requirements, complicate the
  adversary’s targeting calculus, preserve combat power, and facilitate persistent sustainment.
  RESILIENT, INTEGRATED, AND INTEROPERABLE SUSTAINMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
  1-47. Army sustainment command and control requires resilient information capabilities that are agile,
  integrated, predictive, near-real-time, and inform sustainment decisions to meet the operational tempo. Ways
  to achieve this may include—
  • Data automation, prognosis, and prediction: Operations challenge the Army’s ability to manage
  and exploit the massive amount of sustainment data from the point of need to the supply support