OD Leadership

Mission

Train, educate, and develop agile Ordnance technicians who drive change; employ, develop, and design DOTMLPF-P solutions to build Army strategic readiness and sustain land dominance for LSCO (Army 2030-2040) in Contested Environments.

Vision

Build a Network of Maintenance Capabilities, build the Future Technician, and Cultivate the Workforce we need for the Army of 2030-2040.

Highlights

Sustainment News

Army Sustainment

Enabling Rapid Repair Capability at Echelon

By COL Reginald M. (Garrette) Harris, Hector Rodriguez, and Lara Orechovesky | January 22, 2025
Graphic advertisement for article. (Graphic by Sarah Lancia)

As the Army executes one of the most significant reorganizations and technical innovations in its history, we must set the conditions necessary to understand the readiness of our formations in real-time and provide Soldiers with executable repair requirements at echelon. Currently, the maturation of enterprise sustainment is a deliberate, conditions-based process governed by the acquisition framework, making it outpaced by modernization.

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Army Sustainment

Indo-Pacific Sustainment and the Battlefield of 2040

By LTC Mark A. Yore and LTC Eric J. Erickson | January 22, 2025
Carpenter Son, a general cargo ship, pulls into port during Exercise Balikatan 24 at the Basco Port in Basco, Batanes, Philippines, May 4, 2024. (SSG Tristan Moore)

Providing an accurate prediction of what sustainment on the 2040 battlefield will look like is a difficult and near-impossible task. Many of us have been waiting since 1989 for the delivery of the hoverboard that Marty McFly expertly maneuvered in Back to the Future II. Conversely, in 2007, many of us — other than maybe Steve Jobs — could not fathom the capability of having video conversations on a handheld device.

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