The Army only has one Logistics Support Activity. That was the message from LOGSA Commander Col. John Kuenzli to interns from the Army Materiel Command visiting the activity's headquarters Thursday.
Five AMC ambassadors from the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Minority Institutions outreach program met with Kuenzli for a brown bag lunch and LOGSA overview, followed by a tour of the LOGSA's data center.
"Every day we take information and data from all around the world, from the lowest level of reporting, the company level, up to the Pentagon to track the status of systems and help build the Army's readiness picture. It all flows through LOGSA," he said.
LOGSA's data center can store up to two petabytes of data, and has enough storage capability to hold all of the libraries of academic research institutions in the United States. The center is a cloud that can be accessed by users around the world, and gets as many hits a day as the New York Stock Exchange has transactions in a day.
"LOGSA enables smart decisions," Kuenzli said. "We have about 20 years of data on Army systems that we can turn into information called descriptive data.
"We can use that descriptive data to future forecast the Army's needs. If LOGSA does everything right we can lower the Army's costs while increasing readiness rates."
The next level is prescriptive analysis -- where data will not only future forecast, but teach the user what to do next.
"With enough repetition the computer will start to train our Soldiers, and that is when we really start saving money," Kuenzli said. "There is only one LOGSA, we are the only one who can do it."
Following the command overview, the interns and Kuenzli traveled to LOGSA's data center, where they learned more about the command's massive information storage capabilities.
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