Life-Cycle Management - Army Logistics University - U.S. Army

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Communications-
Electronics
Command
5 LARs
Tank-automotive
and Armaments
Command
3 LARs
Each LSE–F is headed by a chief warrant officer and includes
both logistics assistance representatives from AMC’s major
subordinate commands and contractor personnel.
military personnel, Department of the Army civilians,
and contractors—all joining together to choreograph
the critical events. New equipment soon began arriving,
and the “digital-install” warehouses came to life
with system contractors readily preparing their workspaces
and stocking shelves.
The many digital communications systems and subsystems
under the umbrella of the Army Battle Command
System (ABCS) require individual and
collective training of SBCT personnel to progressively
integrate unprecedented situational awareness capabilities
into the SBCT. The new Fort Lewis Mission Support
Training Facility, a cavernous, 48,000-square foot
building, provided an ideal controlled environment of
400 networked computers for training on ABCS.
The culminating milestone in 2003 was the SBCT
certification exercise at the Joint Readiness Training
Center at Fort Polk, Louisiana. The first SBCT—the 3d
Brigade, 2d Infantry Division—was certified as having
the initial operating capability for global deployment.
Army Doctrine
Field Manual (FM) 63–11, Logistics Support Element:
Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures, resulted
from lessons learned during Operations Desert
Shield and Desert Storm in 1990 and 1991. The
Army required a single AMC logistics command and
control element to centrally manage strategic logistics
personnel, call forward elements as required, and
LSE Chief
(Chief Warrant
Officer)
Deputy
(Logistics Management Specialist
GS–13)
Aviation
and Missile
Command
1 LAR
Operations
(Logistics Management
Specialist
GS–13)
2 contractors
Brigade
Operations
2 contractors
Multimedia
Communication
Systems
Supply
1 LAR
integrate those elements into the theater. The theater
AMC LSE satisfied this need then, and it continues
to do so today in Southwest Asia.
Clearly, contractor logistics support was required
for the foreseeable future. FM 63–11 provided callforward
guidance requiring the AMC LSEs to control
all contractors in their areas of operations. During
early SBCT field training exercises, a limited contractor
control cell was established under the Fort
Lewis LSE for reception, staging, onward movement,
and integration of systems contractors. The SBCT
needed a simple reliable combat support solution to
gain better control of SBCT systems contractors.
AMC Forward Stryker’s objective was simple—to
train as it would sustain.
The Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition,
Logistics, and Technology and the AMC Commanding
General agreed to continue with current
Army doctrine mandating that the AMC LSEs act as
the “single face” to the warfighter. AMC Forward
Stryker began to explore the details of how to effectively
integrate and embed standard and nonstandard
contract logistics support under a single umbrella.
LSE–F
For the SBCT, the “single face” of materiel support
is the commander of the LSE–F. The SBCT
LSE–F is a task-organized team consisting of a chief
warrant officer and Department of the Army civilian
MARCH–APRIL 2005