Today I want to share one more brief update from RADM Ostebo, the Coast Guard’s Chief Engineer. This time, I’ll share his “guest post” that appeared on the Commandant’s blog. It describes the high level vision for the business model the new CG-LIMS tools will support.
Below is the text of the post. You can find the original post and any comments here.
If you haven’t already added the Commandant’s blog to an RSS reader to have the updates pushed to you, I would encourage you to do it. More and more, senior leadership will be using that forum as to keep the field updated on modernization efforts. It’s an easy way to keep plugged in. Now I’ll shut up and let you read RADM Ostebo’s words.
Guest Post: ALC and the new CG Logistics Model
This is a guest post from the Coast Guard’s Chief Engineer, RDML Tom Ostebo:
The ribbon cutting ceremony for the Aviation Logistics Center (ALC) in Elizabeth City, NC, on Oct 30th represents the Coast Guard’s next big step toward Modernization, which has been the centerpiece of our organizational efforts for the past two years.
Proudly, the Aviation Logistics Center is the first of the five Logistics Centers brought on-line to support the field through a bi-level, Product Line Manager lead Mission Support Business Model. This will create an infrastructure that supports a single point of contact for mission support services, consistent standardized service offerings Coast Guard-wide and clear lines of accountability. This will ultimately take the significant burden of asset support off of our field operators and enable them to focus more directly on mission execution.
With the ALC as the model, the remaining four planned logistics and service centers (Surface Forces Logistics Center, Shore Infrastructure Logistics Center, C4IT Service Center, Personnel Service Center) will unify logistics support enterprise-wide to enable life-cycle management of assets from acquisition to decommission and establish a flexible, responsive Human Resource system under a single command for the first time in Coast Guard history.
The ALC has practiced, improved upon and demonstrated the value of this sound logistics model for over a decade. It boasts end-to-end asset management and enables continual process improvement, providing a learning organization with the ability and agility to make appropriate course corrections for the logistical needs of the Coast Guard.
The Coast Guard Business Model has its roots in the former Aircraft Repair and Supply Center (ARSC) – now ALC. In the future all five Logistics Centers will embody the following four guiding principles of this proven business model:
– Bi-level maintenance
– Configuration control
– Single point of accountability through Product Line Managers.
– Total Asset Visibility
As ARSC transformed into the ALC they didn’t change who they are. They are a group of professionals committed to their mission. As they transformed to become Aviation Logistics Center Elizabeth City, one thing remains true, and that is their vision “We keep ’em flying by providing the right stuff, at the right time, at the right place, at the right cost… everytime.”
RDML Tom Ostebo, CG-4
CG-LIMS 
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