Campaign Plan

marine corps logsitcs command

campaign PLAN

- logcom's scope of responsibility -

Marine Corps Logistics Command (LOGCOM) is part of the Marine Corps Installations and Logistics Enterprise, providing logistics and weapon system life cycle management support at the operational level. LOGCOM links the Marine Corps Organic Industrial Base with operational logistics activities, ensuring materiel readiness and service-specific force sustainment by executing depot-level maintenance, storage, and prepositioning for the Supporting Establishments, regional or functional Marine Corps Forces, the Marine Expeditionary Forces, and Marine Forces Reserve.

As the Service-level Inventory Control Point and Supply Depot, LOGCOM manages the inventory of Marine Corps equipment, mainly for Classes II, VII, and IX and supports system sustainment and supply chain management of Marine Corps ground equipment in coordination with Marine Corps Systems Command and Program Executive Officer Land Systems.

LOGCOM coordinates with the Deputy Commandant for Plans, Policies, and Operations (DC PP&O), Deputy Commandant for Installations and Logistics (DC I&L) and affected Marine Forces to manage logistics within any theater of operations throughout the operational continuum, from day-to-day campaigning to armed conflict.

- situation -

In recent years, LOGCOM has prioritized efficiency from an organizational and fiscal perspective for institutional improvement and development. However, with the rise of potential for conflict against peer and near-peer adversaries, operations can no longer be expected to occur in a permissive environment. To address this shift, LOGCOM is directed to expand its role and capabilities across the range of logistics functions between the MCOIB and the operational edge, shifting the focus to prioritize effectiveness and resilience rather than solely efficiency when evaluating future organizational design.

LOGCOM must stabilize its current core functions while expanding to meet future threats and operational demands. This requires integrating Force Design-driven requirements into operations, activities, and investments at both strategic and operational levels while striking a creative balance between technology, data, and human capacity (info-man-machine teaming) to mitigate any resource and capacity shortfalls and achieve the expected increases in capability.

- COMMAND Focus -

Our focus under this effort is to identify the operations, activities, and investments that must be made by LOGCOM to achieve the tasks identified in Force Design and Installations & Logistics 2030.

Relationships
LOGCOM will need to clarify its command relationships within Headquarters Marine Corps and its relationships with the supported Marine Forces. LOGCOM must organize theater-level logistics for regional Marine Forces to ensure it meets the requirements set by a Geographic Combatant Commander.
Positioning
LOGCOM will need to organize, operate, and sustain the forward expeditionary sites of the Global Positioning Network as an expansion of already existing land and maritime prepositioning operations.
Readiness
LOGCOM will define its approach to enable the persistent readiness of the Marine Expeditionary Force and Marine Force Reserve (MFR) in coordination with the Marine Logistics Groups and MFR staff. LOGCOM will identify its role in supporting service-level responses to national mobilization for crisis and conflict.
Experimentation
LOGCOM will support Force Design experimentation and help the service identify the specific acquisition needs for LOGCOM to provide operational logistics.
Installations Integration
LOGCOM will need to synchronize its requirements with Marine Corps Installations Command based on a holistic appreciation of the mutually supporting activities of each organization within the Marine Corps Installations & Logistics Enterprise. This includes the challenges of affecting the Marine Corps Organic Industrial Base (MCOIB) Infrastructure Optimization Plan (MIOP) which is inclusive of the modernization strategy for the MCOIB and encompasses plans for facilities, industrial processes, and manpower requirements both at home and forward.
Data and Decisions
This campaign plan will identify the efforts that must be made to ensure that LOGCOM, as a part of a larger sustainment web, has the secure networks, robust data, and integrated technologies necessary to make timely, effective, and efficient decisions at a global scale to support the Marine Corps’ operational-level logistics needs in a contested operating environment.
System Sustainment
LOGCOM must help to inform the Marine Corps Installation & Logistics Enterprise on those aspects of the industrial base and supply chain that must be maintained as a part of a Wartime Acquisition and Sustainment Support Plan in coordination with Marine Corps Systems Command and Program Executive Officer Land Systems.

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FORCE DESIGN

- execution -

Our approach to achieving our goals acknowledges that we must address two challenges: sustaining the capabilities and services we currently provide, and expanding our capabilities as directed by Force Design and Installations & Logistics 2030. This framework is designed to discover and isolate only the most effective recommendations, thereby minimizing the disruption required for change. This will not require a wholesale shifting of command or staff operations to implement; instead, it will add cross-functional teams (CFTs) to lead the Lines of Effort (LOE). All existing boards, bureaus, centers, cells, and working groups will be leveraged to provide information to LOE Leads.

LOGCOM recognizes the validity of the observation made in Installation & Logistics 2030 that states: “The past two decades of near unchallenged logistics and sustainment dominance during protracted conflicts in mature theaters have led to procedures and formations that, if continued, will create unacceptable risk to Marine forces in future conflicts.” The efforts we have outlined are designed to assess command operations in a way that enable the mitigation of any risk associated with less resilient methods and means.

- Lines of Effort -

LOE 1Achieve Force Design Modernization
LOE 2Expand the Application of Data and Improve Networks
LOE 3Improve Fleet and Component Support
LOE 4Enable Resilience of the Organic Industrial Base
LOE 5Talent Management and Total Force Integration

LOE 1: Achieve Force Design Modernization

Technology Insertion

Conduct persistent technology experimentation and development with responsible agencies for the timely acquisition and insertion of needed capabilities to ensure LOGCOM’s ability to function across its span of control from the industrial base to the operational edge.

Workforce Competency

Forecast and institute plans, policies, procedures, and activities to ensure that the workforce is in possession of the skills and knowledge to support the LOGCOM mission based on expanding roles and changes to service materiel.

OBJECTIVEs

OBJECTIVE 1.1 - Science and Technology. Define and establish the organizations and procedures that enable technology development and insertion based on anticipated and emerging conditions at the speed of need.

OBJECTIVE 1.2 - Workforce Development. Develop the process and procedure for workforce modernization and development that facilitates maximization of technology augmentation and application. This objective will help determine future personnel requirements which will then be actioned by LOE 5, Talent Management and Total Force Integration for recruitment.

OBJECTIVE 1.3 - Technology Insertion. Facilitate the acquisition and insertion of technologies necessary for facilities and industrial modernization as identified in the MIOP.

LOE 1 END STATE: LOGCOM will have a structured process and organization for identifying, experimenting with, integrating, and procuring technology based on operational needs and regulations. We will collaborate with USMC, Joint, and Departmental agencies to influence technology experimentation and acquisition, aiming for sustainable and impactful outcomes and requests for technology experimentation or acquisition from various commands can be addressed by appropriate offices within our command.

LOE 2: Expand the Application of Data and Improve Networks

Global Awareness

Create global logistics awareness with the integration of trustworthy, quantifiable, and measurable data that will support rapid and flexible decision-making made available through secure, reliable, and resilient communications networks and infrastructure to enable global command and control of LOGCOM operations.

Data Driven Activities

Lead the Marine Corps Installations and Logistics Enterprise in the application of data-informed/driven processes to facilitate decision advantage and efficiencies in the conduct of dynamic industrial base and operation-level logistics activities for systems and force sustainment tasks.

OBJECTIVEs

OBJECTIVE 2.1 - Data Application. Establish the environment and processes that enable the application of data for decision advantage.

OBJECTIVE 2.2 - Data Networks. Establish the physical and logic networks with associated certification and security capable of supporting LOGCOM data demands and global command and control requirements, especially for the integration with, or establishment of, sustainment webs.

OBJECTIVE 2.3 - Data Literacy. Enable a culture of data literacy in LOGCOM to properly use assessments or predictive analysis to make data-informed or data-driven decisions.

OBJECTIVE 2.4 - Logistics Intelligence. Establish the processes and procedures to integrate threat-based logistics intelligence and analysis into data-informed decisions across the operations of LOGCOM from the Marine Corps Organic Industrial Base to the Joint Logistics Enterprise.

LOE 2 END STATE: LOGCOM will possess the data application capability, communications networks, data storage capacity, data analysis competency, and threat awareness to conduct data-informed/data-driven decisions that maximize our effectiveness and efficiency.

LOE 3: Improve Fleet and Component Support

Title 10 Equipping

Enable Title 10 service unique and organizationally appropriate operational-level logistics support to regional Marine Forces while ensuring seamless integration with the Joint Logistics Enterprise.

Materiel Readiness

Facilitate Marine Expeditionary Force and Marine Force Reserve materiel readiness to ensure operating forces have equipment available to maximize training and the materiel preparedness to respond to crisis and contingency.

Supply Support

Develop requirements determination tools and processes to identify, source, and register with Sources of Supply for materiel requirements in support of operations, activities, and investments, operation plans, and Service mobilization actions.

OBJECTIVEs

OBJECTIVE 3.1 - Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) and Marine Force Reserve (MFR) Mobilization. Identify approaches to support MEF and MFR readiness and mobilization that meet the criteria of LOE 3.

OBJECTIVE 3.2 - LOGCOM Mobilization. Identify approaches to LOGCOM readiness and mobilization that meet the criteria of LOE 3.

OBJECTIVE 3.3 - Positioning Doctrine. Develop the doctrine and practices to conduct the Global Positioning network ashore and afloat and identify changes to resources and organization.

OBJECTIVE 3.4 - Command and Control. Develop LOGCOM global and regional command and control relationships and structures for service unique operational level logistics support.

OBJECTIVE 3.5 – Marine Force Reserve Integration. Develop LOGCOM’s ability to conduct mobilization as well as integrate reserve component support for training, augmentation, activation, and mobilization.

LOE 3 END STATE: LOGCOM will establish robust forward operational capabilities and provide personnel with the command-and-control structures to ensure continuous access to service unique operational-level logistics throughout all phases of campaigning to armed conflict. LOGCOM will provide support at the appropriate echelon to the Marine Expeditionary Force and Marine Force Reserve units, enhancing their materiel readiness to exercise with operable equipment and respond immediately to crises and contingencies.

LOE 4: Enable Resilience of the Organic Industrial Base

Operationally Informed

Improve the ability to anticipate changing operational requirements and adapt to meet the challenges of force modernization. This encompasses issues related to manpower, processes, technology, and facilities.

Mission Assurance

Ensure LOGCOM’s capacity to sustain or acquire unique materiel for the Marine Corps, regardless of operational challenges or threat-based disruptions.

System and Force Sustainment Integration

Develop a secure and resilient life cycle supply and maintenance system capable of persistent support to the Service throughout the operational continuum.

OBJECTIVEs

OBJECTIVE 4.1 - MCOIB Infrastructure Optimization Plan (MIOP) Implementation. Ensure a comprehensive process and approach is established to fulfill recommendations derived from the MIOP across facilities modernization, industrial process, and manpower requirements portfolios.

OBJECTIVE 4.2 - Industrial Modernization. Coordinate and establish procedural improvements, both physical and fiscal, that enable LOGCOM to conduct required facility and industrial modernization at the speed of need and relevance.

OBJECTIVE 4.3 - Sustainment Integration. Ensure resilient system and force sustainment webs to enable LOGCOM to fix, store, preposition, and issue materiel throughout the operational continuum and in all locations.

LOE 4 END STATE. Accomplish Force Design and Installation & Logistics 2030 requirements for improvements to the Marine Corps Organic Industrial Base (MCOIB) and ensure alignment to modernization actions already underway or as planned in each iteration of development. Ensure the resilience of the Defense Industrial Base and MCOIB as it relates to Marine Corps equities in support of the Wartime Acquisition and Sustainment Support Plan through routine coordination with Marine Corps Systems Command, Program Executive Officer Land Systems, and Deputy Commandant Installations & Logistics.

LOE 5: Talent Management and Total Force Integration

Recruiting and Acquiring Talent

Continuously search for talented civilian employees to support and strengthen the LOGCOM mission, using all available tools such as community outreach, recruitment incentives, and Direct Hire Authority and promote a positive image of LOGCOM to Marine Corps Occupational Field sponsors to secure the best Marines for the organization.

Retention

Retention incentives and fulfillment of duties are paramount for LOGCOM to build continuity of its most talented civilian employees. We will make use of incentives such as alternate work schedules, telework policy updates, and hybrid or remote options for eligible positions and employees in order to retain talented employees. Providing appropriate responsibilities, enhancing MOS proficiency and knowledge, and offering opportunities will keep uniformed members engaged in pursuing career goals beyond LOGCOM.

Integration

As other LOE leads develop the manpower sourcing and training requirements to fulfill their objectives, LOE 5 will incorporate those requirements into the overall talent management and talent acquisition approach. This will be viewed from a total force and whole-of-society lens to coordinate with active duty, reserve component, government civilian, and contracted workforce alternatives aligned to threat- and mission-informed demands across the operational continuum.

Synchronization

CFT Leads will ensure that the outcomes of LOE 5 are synchronized with the larger DC I&L-led efforts to develop MCILE professionals for the 21st Century. Specifically, the total force requirements and MOS-unique skillsets for LOGCOM are included and accounted for in service-level investments in manning and training documentation, initiatives, and resourcing for this element of the MCILE covering the OIB and operation-level logistics capabilities.

OBJECTIVEs

OBJECTIVE 5.1 - Recruiting and acquiring the best and brightest. Conduct a comprehensive and analytically informed effort -- both internally to the Marine Corps and externally with local, state, and federal programs (especially those in the Department of the Navy) -- to recruit and train personnel.

OBJECTIVE 5.2 - Retaining talented employees. Conduct a comprehensive and analytically informed effort to identify the issues and considerations necessary to improve civilian and contracted workforce retention. Develop metrics, programs, workforce engagement, and assessments to determine the efficacy of any retention efforts and incentive programs.

LOE 5 END STATE: LOGCOM recruits, acquires, and sustains a combined civilian and Marine workforce that is adaptable to a current and evolving mission with the professional skills and determination to sustain today’s warfighter into tomorrow.