Blount Island CommandU.S. Marine Corps

Mr. Lyle Layher MPS Plans Management Branch

Operations Division

lyle.layher@bic.usmc.mil

(904) 696-5632

Logistics Solutions

for the Warfighter

Blount Island Command

MissionProvide Prepositioning Program and operational logistics

support to Marine Corps and DoD forces to enable them

to rapidly and successfully conduct and quickly recover

from assigned missions across the full spectrum of

expeditionary warfare and anti-terrorist operations.

Strategic Reach

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SAIPAN / GUAM

USNS PLESS

USNS LUMMUS

USNS MARTIN

USNS WILLIAMS

USNS DAHL

DIEGO GARCIA

USNS BUTTON

USNS KOCAK

USNS LOPEZ

USNS STOCKHAM

USNS SEAY

M/V FISHER

USNS GIANELLA

MEDITERRANEAN

USNS BOBO

USNS OBREGON

USNS WHEAT

USNS SISLER

MCPP-N

Bjugn

Tromsdal

Frigaard

Kalvaa

Hammerkammen

Hammernesodden

MPS Maintenance Cycle (MMC)

• Critical Process for MPF Readiness

• Concept

– Equipment offloaded and maintained at Blount

Island

– 36 month rotation cycle for entire MPF

– 16 ships…1 ship at a time

– Offload to Backload: approx 60 days per ship

Ship Offload

Maintenance Bay

Typical Day at Work

MTVR

TVR

LVSR

ABVMTL

Prepositioned Equipment

LW Howitzer

MTVR

Not just vehicles…

Environmental Conditions

• Garrison

– Industrial Complex

– Indoor and Outdoor Reader Locations

– Reliable Power and Network

• Deployed

– Austere

– Predominately Outdoor

– Limited reliable Network and Power Availability

AIT Partnering

• CGI attended a week of training at the RFID

Solutions Center in Dayton, Ohio

• Alien Technologies, Wright Brothers Institute,

and Blount Island Command agreed to a

one-year partnership to study how the

application of pRFID could improve business

processes

• Earmarks funded the study

What Were We Setting Out

To Accomplish?

• Ship Offload and Backload Asset Visibility

• MMC Production Status Tracking

– Equipment Locations and Maintenance Status

– Container and Mobile Load Status and Quality Assurance

– Unmanned Equipment Identification Deployable Automated

Cargo Measurement System Interface

• Arrival and Assembly Operations

– Already a Proven Value to the Commander in the Field

MPF ExerciseMokpo, Korea

pRFID Interrogator

OmniID MaxHD

pRFID Tag

Deployment /

Implementation Issues

• DoD Lacks a Holistic pRFID Solution

– pRFID is not recommended for Vehicles or

Containers

– However it is recommended and being

implemented for all other accountable assets

– Consequently there are (2) incompatible

AITs that necessitate different infrastructure,

systems, and support

pRFID Implementation

Timeframe & Results• One year dedicated to evaluating the feasibility of applying

pRFID to 3 business Use Cases:

– Ship Offload / Backload Asset Visibilty

– Container Load / Mobile Load Asset Accountability

– Garrison Property Inventory

• pRFID application resulted in:

– Consistent reliability in tracking assets loaded aboard ship

– 100% accountability of assets being loaded into containers /

vehicles

– Up to 75% reduction in man-hours required to conduct a

physical garrison property inventory

• Extend the capability and benefit of available AIT by synergizing the

IUID mandate with advances in passive RFID technology to significantly

enhance Total Asset Visibility, production status, trend analysis, and

quality control during the MPF Maintenance Cycle.

• Enabled Hands-free Asset Visibility and Inventorying

• Item UII provided a common key for item identification

- Written to the passive RFID tag – One System

• Precision tools for item management and reporting during

Arrival and Assembly

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BICmd AIT

Implementation

AIT Selection• Ship Offload/Backload Billing

– Technologies Attempted:

• Barcode

• aRFID

• pRFID

Attribute Barcode Active RFID Passive RFID

Maintenance Free

Unmanned (Minimum 30’

Read Range)

Re-Writable

Low Cost

Durability (IP68)

Primary pRFID BenefitsGarrison Environment

• Increase productivity with refreshing new automated business processes

• Realignment of manpower currently implementing manual asset accounting methods

• Quickly locate critical equipment when it's needed an avoid purchasing new, redundant

assets

• Maintain more accurate physical inventories with less manual labor (labor savings can be

reduced by 75 - 90%)

• Potentially cut inventory costs

• Maximize on use of industry standards and commercial competition

• Trim down lost assets

• Improve security for critical assets

• Significantly increase quality assurance

Deployed environment

• Arrival and Assembly asset visibility and playbook control

• Provides CO with real time visibility and control of assets as they transferred from ship,

through staging, maintenance, and mobile load disassociation, to eventual distribution to the

units

pRFID Cost to Benefit Analysis

Category Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Total

ML/CL 1,320,960$ 1,360,589$ 1,401,406$ 1,443,449$ 1,486,752$ 7,013,156$

MMC 176,896$ 182,203$ 187,669$ 193,299$ 199,098$ 939,165$

CMR Inventory 40,925$ 42,357$ 43,840$ 45,374$ 46,962$ 219,458$

Status Quo Totals 1,538,781$ 1,585,149$ 1,632,915$ 1,682,122$ 1,732,812$ 8,171,779$

Status Quo (Implementation Time - 1st year) 1,538,781$ -$ -$ -$ -$ 1,538,781$

ML/CL 511,291$ 9,691$ 9,691$ 4,845$ 4,845$ 540,363$

MMC 1,206,370$ 128,202$ 128,202$ 19,230$ 19,230$ 1,501,235$

CMR Inventory 113,104$ 8,376$ 8,576$ 8,783$ 8,997$ 147,836$

AIT / RFID Systems Support 275,000$ 284,625$ 294,587$ 304,897$ 315,569$ 1,474,678$

Passive RFID Totals 3,644,545$ 430,894$ 441,056$ 337,756$ 348,641$ 5,202,893$

Annual Quantitative Benefit $ (2,105,764) $ 1,154,255 $ 1,191,859 $ 1,344,366 $ 1,384,171 $ 2,968,887

Cumulative Quantitative Benefit $ (2,105,764) $ (951,510) $ 240,350 $ 1,584,716 $ 2,968,887 $ 2,968,887

Quantitative Benefit Analysis

Tangible

Benefits

Status Quo

pRFID Implementation

Positive Return On Investment By Year 3

Accomplishments

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• Validated the reliability and read range performance of

Passive RFID as effectively applied to Consolidation Layers 4 & 5

– i.e., Containers & Vehicles

• Mobile Inventorying of Principal End Items (PEIs)– Up to 75% reduction in time required to conduct inventory

• Real-time precision accounting & reporting of MPS assets – 100% accuracy -> Compared to 68% using other AIT methods

– Contingency and Exercise Support: – Exercise Freedom Banner 10 (Mokpo, ROK)

– Exercise Freedom Banner 11 (Thailand)

– 100% accountability and real-time reporting to the Ground CommanderNote: III MEF is undergoing planning to potentially use MPS and passive RFID to support

Humanitarian Relief in Northern Japan

• Application Status for Maritime Prepositioning Ships (MPS)– 8 MPS have PEIs and containers with passive tags applied

– 2 MPS are currently in production

Single AIT Solution

for Blount Island Command

Inventory

Delivery

MaintenanceDistribution

Source

Maintenance

SourceDelivery

…and the Warfighter

Inventory

Distribution

PACMAN Video

Way Ahead

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• DoD Policy to:

– Expand ITV to support passive RFID read sites

– Common AIT for tracking all consolidation layers

– Unit Move

• Promote further fidelity of item location reporting to the

Warfighter

• Visibility beyond existing active RFID infrastructure

Discussion