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# R&D Supply Chain Management and Sustainability

                Supply Chain Management & Sustainability                            Supply Chain Management & Sustainability                            Supply Chain Management & Sustainability information paper            SHARE IMAGE:Download ImageImage DetailsPhoto By: Amber McSherryVIRIN: 200924-D-HW629-072

DLA Research & Development's Supply Chain Management & Sustainability program anticipates, assesses and identifies solutions to meet current and future warfighter requirements by leveraging R&D to infuse innovation into the DOD supply chain and sustainability efforts. The SCMS program focuses on:

**Supply Chain Resilience**Critical enablers of network and supply chain resilience

**Emergent Requirements**Rapid and agile responses to emergent needs

**Reverse Logistics**Disposition and recycling efficiencies

## 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 technologies to improve DLA supply chain resilience
                              - Explore supply chain greening to support sustainability efforts
                              - Support the modernization of the DOD 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 new methodologies to meet current and future warfighter requirements.

## Benefits

                              - Harmonize labor & automation
                              - Eliminate Dull-Dirty-Dangerous work at DLA                                  - Develop risk-mitigating solutions to minimize physical injuries and property damages
                                - Implement Excess to Disposal (E2D) Business Cycle 
                              - Resilient C2 in contested logistics
                              - Safe and cost-effective end-of-life disposition/recycling capabilities
                              - Rapidly respond to shifting worldwide events to support operations in remote locations

## 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 disposition operations
                              - Bolster DLA’s 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 

### Contact Us - Logistics.Research@dla.mil

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