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The PLA at Home and Abroad - Strategic Studies Institute - U.S. Army

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user. As a result, these innov<strong>at</strong>ions could significantly<br />

enhance the military’s visibility over logistics assets,<br />

cross-leveling, <strong>and</strong> by increasing the speed of distribution.<br />

Four additional areas of interest to the <strong>PLA</strong> to<br />

enhance China’s military logistics oper<strong>at</strong>ions under<br />

inform<strong>at</strong>ionalized conditions are the applic<strong>at</strong>ion of<br />

digital technology to improve st<strong>and</strong>ardiz<strong>at</strong>ion, 78 a<br />

persistent problem within both military <strong>and</strong> civilian<br />

logistics inventory management; 79 forecasting 80 using<br />

a back-propag<strong>at</strong>ion (BP) neural net, 81 <strong>and</strong> simul<strong>at</strong>ion 82<br />

to test logistics oper<strong>at</strong>ions under wartime conditions,<br />

for example, which could enhance the logisticians’<br />

ability to accur<strong>at</strong>ely forecast requirements, enhance<br />

st<strong>and</strong>ardiz<strong>at</strong>ion, <strong>and</strong> improve the military’s overall<br />

logistics moderniz<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />

To integr<strong>at</strong>e this inform<strong>at</strong>ion, military logistics researchers<br />

are seeking ways to develop modern comm<strong>and</strong><br />

inform<strong>at</strong>ion systems to provide comm<strong>and</strong>ers<br />

with gre<strong>at</strong>er asset visibility over logistics resources<br />

within their area of oper<strong>at</strong>ions in order to facilit<strong>at</strong>e<br />

rush support <strong>and</strong> cross-leveling of assets. This area<br />

presently represents a major portion of military logistics<br />

research as they seek ways to adapt modern<br />

logistics systems <strong>and</strong> concepts to military oper<strong>at</strong>ions.<br />

Potential integr<strong>at</strong>ing management systems th<strong>at</strong> could<br />

be adapted to integr<strong>at</strong>e Chinese military logistics inform<strong>at</strong>ion<br />

include:<br />

• CALS 83 (Continuous Acquisition <strong>and</strong> Life-cycle<br />

Support 84 ).<br />

• Inform<strong>at</strong>ion Fusion. 85<br />

• DSS (Decision Support System). 86<br />

• ILS (Integr<strong>at</strong>ed Logistics Support). 87<br />

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