DLA Research & Development's Supply Chain Management & Sustainability program focuses on reliability and resiliency for mission accomplishment. The primary focus for 2025-2030 involves Construction & Equipment (Class 4).The SCMS program focuses on:
Supply Chain Resilience
Critical enablers of Class 4 and supply chain resilience
Emergent Requirements
Rapid and agile responses to Class 4 emergent needs
Mission Assurance
Full cycle engineering process
Innovation & Technology
Intrusion-tolerant overlay network guarantees timely message delivery despite physical failures and attacks in the underlying network(s) and the overlay itself.
Strategic Thrusts
- Incorporate emerging Class 4 technologies to improve DLA supply chain resilience
- Mission assurance in contested logistics
- Support the modernization of Class 4 supply chain
Program Challenge
Given the constant change in threats and requirements, the Supply Chain Management & Sustainability (SCM-S) program’s challenge is having the agility, flexibility, and resources to anticipate, assess, and identify Construction & Equipment new methodologies to meet current and future warfighter requirements. Our solution is the SCM-S program leverages R&D to infuse innovation into the Class 4 supply chain and sustainability efforts.
Benefits
Full life-cycle engineering processes to identify and mitigate design, production, test, and field support deficiencies threatening mission accomplishment in contested logistics.
Partners
- Military Services
- Major Subordinate Commands
- National Laboratories
- Geographic Combatant Command
- Office of the Secretary Defense
- Manufacturing Institutions
Accomplishments & Ongoing Efforts
- Improve cost and safety of Class 4 operations
- Bolster DLA’s Class 4 ability to rapidly respond to worldwide events
- Integrate sustainment and supply chain risk management early in the product’s lifecycle
- Intrusion Tolerant systems for DLA installations
- Resiliency against severe compound and adaptive threats
- Custom protocols without needing to modify the underlying network(s)
- Customized protocols to make use of general-purpose computing resources (processing & memory) and global state in the middle of network
- Seamlessly leverage multiple underlying networks for enhanced resilience
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