How intermodal are the land-sea-air components of Army transportation?
Intermodality in transporting supplies and cargo has been a key element of our design and acquisition processes for several years. Every time you have to re-pack or re-configure cargo loads due to a different mode of transportation wastes energy and results in delays of getting needed logistics to the customers. With that in mind, our goal is to ensure all our cargo configurations are intermodal to increase the velocity of logistics operations. This intermodality does not limit itself to the military fleets. The capability to efficiently change from military to civilian equipment and vice versa is critical to enabling us to accomplish the mission in the most cost-effective manner, which translates to a better bottom line with taxpayer dollars. However, I think we need to take intermodality to a new level. The current intermodal systems, such as the 463L pallet and the 20-foot container, are fine for the transportation system, but do not translate easily to the end user at the brigade s
