Contested Logistics
Improving Awareness, Predicting Outcomes
Contested logistics is a complex system-of-systems challenge, a fundamental mission area embedded within the overarching process of providing our operational and tactical units with resources and materials they will need to win the next war. It assumes that at every stage of sustainment, we will find adversarial forces to be overcome—militarily, economically, and in all domains.
SUSTAINING BREADTH
52%
Pacific Fleet AOR in the Indo-Pacific covers this amount of Earth’s surface.
SUSTAINING DEPTH
100+
Tankers required to support the Pacific mission (with additional risk due to attrition).
SUSTAINING FREQUENCY
$10Bn
The amount of oil and gas DLA Energy procures and transports for the DoD.
Encompassing our entire sustainment process, contested logistics in the 21st century demands data-driven precision and strategic mobility.
From our depots and industrial base to the operational theater, from the theater ports of debarkation to the front lines, we must expect that at every stage of sustainment, we will encounter opposing forces that will need to be overcome—militarily, economically, and in all domains.
Sustaining the contested logistics mission in this rapidly evolving and increasingly autonomous era of warfighting relies on optimizing our capacity to activate all data sets with ready-made AI pipelines. These pipelines must be hardened and matured across a diverse group of use cases and problem sets, and enabled by expertise balancing deep data science, software engineering, and domain proficiency to achieve:
- Improved inventory management at forward-deployed locations.
- Faster decision-making and reduced complexity.
- More robust recommendations for enhancing overall operations.
How AI Enhances Contested Logistics
Maximizing Domain Awareness
AI enables planners and operators to fuse diverse data sets, discover real-time insights, and use recommended COAs to speed decision cycles and reduce the threat of adversaries impacting missions.
- Shortens OODA loops.
- Reduces adversarial threats on key missions.
- Enhances decision-making.
Unlocking Real-Time Data Analysis
Complex operational challenges rely on diverse commercial, open-source, and sensitive data sets in various forms. AI solutions harness the value of this data with the ability to analyze and run models to support critical operations.
- Leverages diverse data sets.
- Creates richer insights.
- Augments human cognition.
Enabling Predictive Outcomes
Looking beyond the current state is required to stay ahead of threats. AI pipelines enabled by expertise and maturity across a diverse group of use cases and problem sets can ensure accuracy and effectiveness.
- Delivers innovative, proven AI pipelines.
- Enables continuous model learning cycles.
- Recommends COAs to improve outcomes.
Solving the Problem
In the future fight, our ability to operate effectively in an environment with threats emanating from all domains and across our supply chain cannot be taken for granted. Decision-making will pivot on innumerable variables and inputs from diverse data sources and types. Advanced analytics and explainable AI solutions will be essential levers impacting operational planning and decision-making for contested logistics. Avathon’s multi-domain awareness technology provides real-time data analysis and prediction capabilities to plan and optimize logistics scenarios in contested environments.
