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threats overseas. Most of the money from their part of the budget goes to pay for that transportation. As can be seen, the large amount of money that goes to the budget of the Department of Defense goes to different branches. Each branch serves an important role and has a certain purpose. Their mission is to keep the United States, as well as our allies, safe from foreign threats. The personnel in all of these branches risk their lives to serve this country and it’s people. Instead of trying…

The “Liberty City Seven” case served as a prototype for these terrorism sting operations. There is always a vast divide between the information in the initial news reports and the eventual reports after the government discloses all of the details in court. The Liberty City Seven were a group of young black males from one of the Miami’s poorest areas, Liberty City. They were approached by an undercover FBI criminal informant, Abbas al-Saidi who began his career as a drug snitch at the age of 16…

money on the military until we reach this point. Now how insane that sounds is just as crazy as our current military budget is, and rising. The United States Defense department is the most over funded program in the U.S. and has risen to unprecedented rates since World War II. The only reasonable reason for a steady increasing military budget is of warring states that with unstable economies. There are no significant wars that the U.S.A is in right now, so why do we have a military ready to…

In simplistic terms we can all understand what sustainment is. Giving a generic definition of providing necessary supplies to continue operations for an extended duration of time, is fairly simple. According to ADP 4-0 which is the Army's doctrine for sustainment operations; "sustainment is the provision of logistics, personnel services, and health service support necessary to maintain operations until successful mission completion." Sustainment has always been the achilles tendon of continued…

statutory requirement that restricts the Department of Defense (DoD) from using funds appropriated or otherwise available to DoD for procurement of food, clothing, fabrics, fibers, yarns, other made-up textiles, and hand or measuring tools that are not grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced in the United States. The Berry Amendment has been critical to maintaining the safety and security of our armed forces, by requiring covered items to be produced in the United States. With respect to…

The United States transportation industry is one of the largest consumer markets. The market domains within the transportation industry are major contribution to the continual expansion of the industry. The transportation business is massive, incorporating everything from metropolitan transport, train systems and buses that people use to commute back and forth to work and school, from the rail and trucking systems that transport products nationwide and ships that move products from port to port…

operational plans and also serve to codify realistic expectations between the customer and the supplier in terms of level of support. For example, the US Quadrennial Defense Review mandates the use of performance-based agreements between the US Department of Defense entities that are sources of supply and the customers at major command levels. This places a requirement on those parties to sign collaborative agreements that would employ a customer focussed supply chain…

America’s Army 3 is video game designed by the United States military. It is a first person shooter game, in which players compete in multiplayer missions in a fictional conflict. In the game, the fictional Czervenian government has started a war, creating a refugee crisis. The US Army has been sent in to intervene and prevent a humanitarian crisis (America’s). The game was created by the US Army to serve as a recruiting tool, so the target audience is a teenage male. Their intent in creating…

Subject: The Army’s need for a new Pre-Mobilization training model to maintain an Operational Reserve 1. Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to identify Reserve Component (RC) operational requirements and the shortfalls of the current pre-mobilization 39-day training model with recommendations to mitigate capacity and capability gaps. 2. Key Points. a. The Army’s global operational requirements and the constant resizing, re-balancing, and restructuring of the total force directed in…

Introduction Currently being a contractor for the Department of Defense (DOD), I chose to write my paper on performance-based logistics. Acquisition Logistics Engineering (2013) defines performance-based logistics as, The current approach for reducing the logistic footprint in operational environments while increasing overall warfighting capability and reducing cost. It calls for establishing long-term agreements between the developer and the warfighter on exactly what the support requirements…