Everything Leo Kosinski said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
U.S. military can no longer move assets domestically uncontested
“In this age of contested logistics with hypersonic missiles and cyber and space, you know, threats, our ability not just to operate abroad, but just to be able to leave our own ports and to be able to move rail and everything uncontested no longer exists. It p…”
Kosinski: U.S. Department of Defense lags significantly in software capabilities
“Challenges with our defense industrial base, challenges with what we have, and really one of the main efforts there was really that data software piece, which we just weren't very good at, you know, trying hard, but had a lot of catching up to do in the Depart…”
Kosinski: AI decision tools streamline multi-modal military logistics training
“When you have AI decision-making tools that can enable individuals to make decisions, just to facilitate, instead of taking, you know, 20 years to train someone to do this, you have software that you can be trained and still learn, but can give you the option …”
The Department of Defense relies on 40-year-old logistics software architecture
“The Department of Defense with logistics had built the system 40 years ago and done minor, you know, if any, kind of updates to it.”
Kosinski: U.S. military service logistics systems cannot interconnect
“Within each service, like the Army and Marine Corps, Air Force, within, you know, each subunit as you go down are legacy systems that are programmed by great people, you know, decades ago, but aren't, weren't designed to be able to connect and to do that”
Kosinski: Logistics functions as a weapon system that determines military effectiveness
“Because no matter what great weapon system you have, if you can't supply and sustain it and move it where you need to, it's not effective. And I really think logistics and experts do think of it as a weapon system itself.”
Kosinski: NATO recently expanded planning to include collective logistics across members
“Over the last few years in NATO, one of the changes, and we can go into more detail, but basically, There's always been collective defense, but not necessarily collective logistics. Logistics was on the nation to do things, but the realization is that any one …”
Kosinski: US military relies heavily on commercial transport for daily operations
“Day to day that the US military uses commercial transport, whether it's trucking, rail, air, sea, and then any kind of contingent or disaster type of escalation, we would have to actually use more.”
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