Air Force logistics leader visits AMC

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  • By Mrs. Cherish T. Gilmore
  • Army Materiel Command
The U.S. Army Materiel Command hosted Air Force Lt. Gen. Lee Levy II, commanding general of the Air Force Materiel Command's Air Force Sustainment Center, for an overview on AMC's global mission and role in supporting readiness, June 22.

Levy visited AMC for the first time after a meeting with AMC Commander Gen. Dennis L. Via last year. Levy leads an organization similar to AMC in that both provide sustainment and logistics readiness to deliver combat power. Both organizations provide war-winning expeditionary capabilities to include depot maintenance, supply chain operations and management, and installation support.

Levy explained that the organizations are actually co-dependent.

"We organize, train and equip in independent spheres, but when we fight -- we fight as a joint team. We show up at the same place to fight, and we share resources like real estate, fuel and ammunition," he said.

Collaboration between Army and Air Force leaders cannot wait until they arrive to the fight, Levy emphasized.

Like similar collaborative visits with U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, the 377th Theater Sustainment Command, and the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition Logistics, and Technology, this visit served as an opportunity to share information and bolster partnerships.

"It is essential that in times of manpower and financial austerity that we actually drive our two organizations closer together and not retreat to our separate corners," Levy said. "We need to have a habitual, sustained relationship in the logistics and sustainment portfolio. We can be better partners and deliver better combat capability for our kinetic forces."

The visit included an overview of AMC's logistics integration, aviation and missile life cycle management, and a tour of the Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center's Prototype Integration Facility.

Levy said he sees possibilities and opportunities in the future to partner with AMC -- whether utilizing heads up display sensors in aviation platforms or determining ways to strengthen the Air Force's logistics information technology through the AMC's Logistics Modernization Program.

"We are both in the logistics and sustainment business all the way from factory, Forward Operating Base to flight line," Levy said. "There is a lot of opportunities for synergy whether it is software sustainment, industrial base capabilities or integrated supply chain management."

Air Force logistics leader visits AMC

  • Published
  • By Mrs. Cherish T. Gilmore
  • Army Materiel Command
The U.S. Army Materiel Command hosted Air Force Lt. Gen. Lee Levy II, commanding general of the Air Force Materiel Command's Air Force Sustainment Center, for an overview on AMC's global mission and role in supporting readiness, June 22.

Levy visited AMC for the first time after a meeting with AMC Commander Gen. Dennis L. Via last year. Levy leads an organization similar to AMC in that both provide sustainment and logistics readiness to deliver combat power. Both organizations provide war-winning expeditionary capabilities to include depot maintenance, supply chain operations and management, and installation support.

Levy explained that the organizations are actually co-dependent.

"We organize, train and equip in independent spheres, but when we fight -- we fight as a joint team. We show up at the same place to fight, and we share resources like real estate, fuel and ammunition," he said.

Collaboration between Army and Air Force leaders cannot wait until they arrive to the fight, Levy emphasized.

Like similar collaborative visits with U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, the 377th Theater Sustainment Command, and the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition Logistics, and Technology, this visit served as an opportunity to share information and bolster partnerships.

"It is essential that in times of manpower and financial austerity that we actually drive our two organizations closer together and not retreat to our separate corners," Levy said. "We need to have a habitual, sustained relationship in the logistics and sustainment portfolio. We can be better partners and deliver better combat capability for our kinetic forces."

The visit included an overview of AMC's logistics integration, aviation and missile life cycle management, and a tour of the Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center's Prototype Integration Facility.

Levy said he sees possibilities and opportunities in the future to partner with AMC -- whether utilizing heads up display sensors in aviation platforms or determining ways to strengthen the Air Force's logistics information technology through the AMC's Logistics Modernization Program.

"We are both in the logistics and sustainment business all the way from factory, Forward Operating Base to flight line," Levy said. "There is a lot of opportunities for synergy whether it is software sustainment, industrial base capabilities or integrated supply chain management."