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GameaPalooza US AirForce Event at NC State Draws a Crowd!

NC State SCRC

Gaming in military education has traditionally been reserved for wargaming and simulation, however, a recent event hosted by NC State, entitled “Gameapalooza” spotlighted emerging applications of gaming technology, specifically for the US Air Force. Dr. Arnav Jhala of N.C. Master Sgt.

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MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics with Chris Caplice

The Logistics of Logistics

from MIT in 1996 in Transportation and Logistics Systems, a MSCE from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BSCE from the Virginia Military Institute. In this role, he pioneered the development of the Freight Market Intelligence Consortium (FMIC). He received a Ph.D.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 11 – 17)

Logistics Viewpoints

The American and Canadian militaries believe that the balloon was for surveillance, while the Chinese government said it was a civilian meteorological research airship that had blown off course. Now that the SU military has retrieved the wreckage, new details are emerging. January imports dropped 32.3 percent to 105,623 TEUs.

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Value Chain Planning and Decision Making in Times of Disruption (Part 1)

DELMIA Quintiq

We must then work in cycles with a very high frequency where models like OODA loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) within VUCA environments (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity), originally arising within a military context, now become applicable to the business reality.

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Grocery Shopping and the Art of War

Enterra Insights

In military circles, there is a well-known phrase that states, “An army travels on its stomach.” There just isn’t always enough processing and transportation capacity to meet rising demand as the economy revs up. What does shopping have in common with war? But there’s plenty of food. ”[1].

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Defence procurement has an opportunity to step up to the global challenge  

Proxima

Secondly, having sent a huge amount of military aid to Ukraine, we now need to refill our arsenal. As of September this year, the MoD reported that our military aid included “hundreds of rockets, five air defence systems, 120 armoured vehicles and over 200,000 pieces of non-lethal military equipment.”

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Why I Love Supply Chain Management

Logility

At that point in my life I probably had only heard the term “logistics” as related to the military and the term “supply chain management” hadn’t been coined yet. I was lucky enough to work on some of the new commercial and military aircraft programs that took me to places like Patuxent Naval Air Station and Edwards Air Force Base.