The Joint Warfighting Concept will "envision much smaller force elements that are inherently reliant on very rapid mobility" within a theater, says TRANSCOM head Gen. Stephen Lyons.
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TRANSCOM Rethinking Sealift in Future Conflict for New Study
May 25, 2021 5:17 PM
Expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Brunswick (T-EPF 6) departs Naval Base Guam, passing the MSC expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Fall River (T-EPF 4) and marking the start of Pacific Partnership 2019. Navy photo
A military mobility study due out in June will place a greater emphasis on smaller, lower-draft vessels that will ferry supplies, troops and vehicles inside a theater, U.S. Transportation Command’s top general said on Tuesday.
The upcoming TRANSCOM Mobility Capability Study, the first since 2018, is set to map out an integrated approach to how the Defense Department will provide logistics for the next era of conflict that “assumes the United States is not a sanctuary,” Army Gen. Stephen Lyons said at the Hudson Institute on Tuesday.
TRANSCOM head gives thumbs up for US Air Force to begin divesting KC-135s 4 hours ago
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Munoz refuels a KC-135 Stratotanker with a force system at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia on Feb. 13, 2020. (Staff Sgt. Alexandria Brun/U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON The head of U.S. Transportation Command signaled Tuesday he is ready to support Air Force plans to start retiring some KC-135 aerial refueling tankers. Last year, after the Air Force requested the authority to retire 13 KC-135s in fiscal 2021, TRANSCOM commander Gen. Stephen Lyons pushed back, arguing that retiring the legacy tankers without an operational KC-46 would exacerbate the existing tanker shortfall to high levels of risk.
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Theresa Hitchens on May 19, 2021 at 3:41 PM
KC-46 on Boeing factory floor
WASHINGTON: A key House Armed Services Committee member yesterday vowed to use the 2022 defense authorization to address the Air Force’s “embarrassing” contract with Boeing for the troubled KC-46 tanker as the head of Transportation Command suggested Pegasus fielding may face yet more delay.
“In my estimation, the overall procurement of this ‘
commercial’ aircraft, and the penalty built into the contract requiring minimum orders of deficient airplanes, is at best procurement malpractice, or at worst an illegal binding of Congress requiring annual procurements,” Rep. Rob Wittman, ranking member of the HASC seapower and projection forces subcommittee, told a joint hearing with the HASC readiness subcommittee.