The Art and Science of Educating Today's Sustainers for Tomorrow's Operations

Lt. Gen. Charles R. Hamilton, the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-4, and John E. Hall, the Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff, G-4, sat down with Army Sustainment to offer their thoughts on the evolution ofthe Army Sustainment Enterprise's approach to train and educate its entire professional workforce for future operations in accordance with current doctrine. [...]these changes will drive a holistic review of FM 4-0, Sustainment Operations, to ensure our sustainment doctrine reflects the Army's operational needs at echelon. Army Logistics University (ALU) is putting us as an Army Sustainment Enterprise on a sustainable glidepath toward that endstate through a targeted data education strategy baked into their curriculum for military and civilian logisticians. Having an adaptive curriculum that allows our logisticians to pair their functional, domain-specific knowledge with the data analytics skills we need to sustain the future force is exactly what we need now to meet the Army and joint force's needs in multidomain operations.