DSB finds 'significant shortfalls' in U.S. logistics enterprise, eyes autonomous barges and airships

By Jason Sherman / December 19, 2018 at 5:16 PM
The U.S. military has "significant shortfalls" in its logistics enterprise that place at risk the ability to project power and sustain a fight against China and Russia -- deficiencies that must be remedied by a host of new investments, including new technologies and cyber hardening, as well as new concepts of operation. On Dec. 19, the Defense Department published an unclassified executive summary of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Survivable Logistics . The report was commissioned in December...

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