Sec. 5302. Sense of Senate on prioritizing survivable logistics for the Department of Defense
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It is the sense of the Senate that— resilient and agile logistics are necessary to implement the 2018 National Defense Strategy because it enables the United States to project power and sustain the fight against its strategic competitors in peacetime and during war; the joint logistics enterprise of the Armed Forces of the United States faces high-end threats from strategic competitors China, Russia, and Iran, all of whom have invested in anti-access area denial capabilities and gray zone tactics; there are significant logistics shortfalls, as outlined in the November 2018 final report of the Defense Science Board
(DSB)Task Force on Survivable Logistics, which, if left unaddressed, would hamper the readiness and ability of the Armed Forces of the United States to conduct operations globally; since the military departments have not shown a strong commitment to funding logistics, the Secretary of Defense should review the full list of recommendations listed in the report described in paragraph
(3)and address the chronic underfunding of logistics relative to other priorities of the Department of Defense.