(5) The plan suggests that the transformation of logistics has started already and that the foundation that establishes the capabilities of Focused Logistics rests on a pillar that provides DoD senior leaders a view into the logistics sustainment system; that pillar is
Total Asset Visibility.
Total Asset Visibility is envisioned to provide logisticians visibility into all assets in the logistics support process--those either being acquired or in maintenance, storage, or transit.
Central to the idea of the next steps for CAV-XML is the idea of supplier collaboration and
total asset visibility. The DoD has released directives for serialized item tracking and use of radio frequency identification (RFID), as well as unique identifier tracking.
The Army also named the tenets needed to frame its efforts to achieve focused logistics: a seamless logistics system, distribution-based logistics,
total asset visibility, agile infrastructure, rapid force projection, and an adequate logistics footprint.
How do the assumptions of the SD concept or
total asset visibility stand up to the new technology insertion of using RFID?
GCSS meets this requirement by cutting across service component, unit, and DoD agency information stovepipes and reducing the overwhelming number of point-to-point connections that overload information flow to give authorized commanders and users real-time
Total Asset Visibility. GCSS uses a single portal or server to serve as the second layer of the logistics management enterprise and integrate data from numerous family-of-systems logistics databases (Figure 1, layer 3) across DoD in a Web-based environment.
Because all items from all sites will be in one central database, users will have
total asset visibility across all available supply sources.
Total Asset Visibility (TAV) is a goal for transforming the Department of Defense (DOD) logistics supply chain and is enabled by automatic identification technology (AIT), the name given to devices that can be used at nodes in the logistics supply chain to provide data (Figure 1) [1-4].
Most notably, BMSI is focused on ensuring that our business systems support two critical requirements: obtaining an unqualified audit opinion on DoD financial statements, and attaining
total asset visibility and achieving total force visibility.
Both Dunwoody and Cabana honed in on the importance of leveraging technology to ensure in-transit and
total asset visibility.
Third was to implement automated identification technologies and data systems that provide accurate, actionable
total asset visibility by FY04.
"First, maximize ordnance availability through the management of the distribution pipeline and second, improve stockpile
total asset visibility so we can quickly and easily ensure our Naval forces have the ordnance they need to conduct training, testing, and combat."
Our seamless satellite, cellular, and wireless approach is designed to augment the current capabilities of the Defense Department's In-Transit Visibility (ITV) and
Total Asset Visibility (TAV) systems which support massive logistics requirements for deployed US forces.