Dod Logistics

I chose and am currently a member of the Department of Defense. The United States Department of Defense (USDOD, DOD or DoD, initially briefly referred to as the National Military Establishment or NME) is the U.S. federal department allocated the largest level of budgetary resources and charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government relating directly to national security and the United States armed forces. The Department of Defense is an evolution of the Department of War. The organization and functions of the DoD are set forth in Title 10 of the United States Code.

The DoD is the major tenant of The Pentagon building near Washington, D.C., and has three main components—the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Among the many DoD agencies are the Missile Defense Agency, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), and the National Security Agency (NSA). The department also operates several joint service schools, including the National War College.

The DoD often refers to inventory management as asset visibility. DoD undertook a massive logistics effort to coordinate the movement of forces and equipment out of Iraq and support a troop increase in Afghanistan, but it continues to face problems in the focus areas of asset visibility and materiel distribution, such as a lack of interoperability among information technology systems and problems with management of shipping containers. GAO’s review of supply support for troops in Afghanistan found that DoD continues to be challenged by:

* a lack of full visibility over supply and equipment movements into and around Afghanistan,

* limited storage capacity at logistics hubs in Afghanistan,

* difficulties in synchronizing the arrival of units and equipment in Afghanistan, and

* lack of coordination, as...