The U.S. Army recently designated Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command as an Army service component command to the U.S. Transportation Command and as a major subordinate command of the U.S. Army Materiel Command.
Army Materiel Command is the Army's designated single logistics integrator and assignment of Surface Deployment and Distribution Command to AMC enhances this role by leveraging deployment and distribution commonalities. It also facilitates the joint distribution process consistent with joint logistics concepts and provides SDDC with Army 4-star general officer oversight, which is consistent with the other service components of the United States Transportation Command.
This realignment places Army logistics capabilities (such as Research Development Test & Evaluation, acquisition, sustainment and deployment and distribution) under a single command without requesting additional resources. Additionally, it provides synergies to the Army by leveraging commonalities, particularly in the areas of deployment and distribution, thus enhancing logistics support for the Army Force Generation process.
Major capabilities to be increased include providing AMC responsibility for all Army logistics capabilities and fostering closer ties between AMC and a key joint partner; USTRANSCOM.
The major advantages of assigning SDDC to AMC support the following emerging capabilities:
- Single Army integrator of logistics with joint and strategic partners.
- Coordination of the end-to-end distribution pipeline from a national sustainment base to deployed Theatre Support Commands.
- Providing command and control, training readiness oversight of assigned forces.
- Assisting Forces Command generation and rapid projection of trained and ready forces from Continental United States based to Regional Combatant Commander and reset of forces upon return to home station.
For operational purposes, SDDC will remain an Army Service Component Command as one of USTRANSCOM's three components which also include the U.S. Air Force's Air Mobility Command and the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command.
For more information contact AMC Public Affairs Office at 703-806-8010, or SDDC Command Affairs at 703-428-3456.
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