{"id":37720,"date":"2017-09-19T19:18:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T19:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2017\/09\/19\/air-force-pursuing-worldwide-logistics-c2-network\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:30:06","slug":"air-force-pursuing-worldwide-logistics-c2-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/digital-show-dailies\/air-force-association\/2017\/09\/19\/air-force-pursuing-worldwide-logistics-c2-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force pursuing worldwide logistics C2 network"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For a globally deployed force, getting something in the right place at the right time can be challenging. The Air Force, for its part, is undertaking a variety of logistics initiatives to help ease that burden and make the force more lethal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a large-scale level, the Air Force is pursuing a worldwide logistics command-and-control network, because if \u201cwe are going to be an agile, responsible Air Force that can deliver multiple effects in multiple domains at a speed that overwhelms our adversary, we need logistics command and control to keep up with that,\u201d Gen. Ellen Pawlikowksi, commander of Air Force Materiel Command, said during a keynote address at the Air Force Association\u2018s annual conference on Sept. 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This will allow the force to have the visibility of where things are and where they need to be in a decentralized way, she said. That will give it the agility to be proactive, and enable the logistics support to be out in front of where operators need these things, she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This logistics command and control will be absolutely essential to link the different capabilities to the different to people to the different assets to provide the rapid response capability that a combatant commander will need, Pawlikowski explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\t