Nitrogen Charging System for Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAAV)

Successful supply-chain management is an essential element in high performance military environments. Rapid delivery of key items to deployed mobile units is a must for military strategists. Effective logistics/supply-chain management allows just-in-timedistribution of goods and services. Current technologies are available to evaluate inventory levels across the supply chain. The use of the World Wide Web allows faster flow-through times in supply chain pipelines. Many commercial and militaryorganizations are feeling an urgent need to integrate an extended enterprise logistics system.USMC 's Precision Sea-Based Logistics is a human-factored, computerized system that requires Total Asset Visibility (TAV) of spare parts, issuance of repair notifications, tracking of maintenance history, and cost. USMC plans to deploy a sea-basedlogistics system. TPI proposes to develop a centralized information logistics system that is based on a fully extended enterprise model.The Phase I effort was focused on developing, integrating, and testing technologies for a Precision Sea-Based Logistics (PSL) system. The PSL system will allow automatic tracking of spare parts, status of maintenance actions, cost accounting, prognasics,decision support, and wire and wireless communication of logistics data using standard protocols. The successful research resulted in an intelligent, proactive, software agents based, architecture called the Autonomic Logistics Framework (ALF). Based onALF, TPI developed an architecture for the PSL system. The AL framework was validated using a pilot PSL example.During Phase II, we will be developing a demonstrator for the PSL system. We will be testing the demonstrator in an operating environment on USMC's Avanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle (AAAV). During Phase II option, other conventional ground vehicleplatforms will be tested.