Coalition Theater Logistics Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration

DPRA has developed an excellent understanding of how coalition operations work, as well as the unique logistics planning challenges they present. The fundamental issue facing any coalition operation is how to make the unique forces, equipment, and systems of multiple nations work together to accomplish the coalition mission.

The Coalition Theater Logistics Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (CTL ACTD) will seek a primary end-state of enabling combined logistics interoperability by overcoming national policy/process/procedural barriers with enhanced information availability and fusion. This capability will support planning, deployment, redeployment, and sustainment phases of a coalition operation. It will aid in resolving the current problem: the inability to share accurate logistics information with coalition partners for the full spectrum of military operations. To render a solution, the CTL ACTD seeks to accomplish the following four specified requirements:

• Collaborate, share, and develop logistics information (to include deployment and redeployment movement plan data [i.e., TPFDD]) with host nation, coalition partners, and, as appropriate, other agencies.
• Determine total airlift and sealift assets to support deployment and redeployment requirements.
• Allow managers to view the location of passengers and cargo being transported via organic and/or commercial resources while they are in transit.
• Allow managers to view the location of infrastructure and facilities (i.e., ports, airfields, etc.), and attendant capabilities in the area of operations.
  

The tools developed for the CTL ACTD will be web-based, or web accessible, and will, to the greatest extent possible, incorporate features from other DoD initiatives (i.e., the Advanced Logistics Project, the Joint Logistics ACTD, the Joint Theater Logistics ACTD, and the CINC 21 ACTD, etc.). It is intended that the CTL ACTD will transition robust information-exchange and decision-support planning applications to the Global Combat Support System (GCSS) upon maturity. Other participating nations may transition useful CTL ACTD developed tools into their respective national support systems. The objective of the CTL ACTD is to demonstrate the military utility of applying enabling capabilities to achieve logistics interoperability for the full spectrum of military operations. These capabilities will be shared between a coalition task force and the supported and supporting nation’s logistics staffs.