EAGLE Reacher 4K 🪂 Recently in Montana, Ombra's EAGLE system was demonstrated aboard Freedom Flight Works' Reacher 4K. 3,000 pounds. This is just the beginning. Learn more👇 🔗zurl.co/HC23q #Ombra #FreedomFlightWorks #ContestedLogistics

Gliders Bring New Dimension To Transport Aircraft | Story by Hope Hodge Seck | #ContestedLogistics @DeptofWar @regentcraft Read now: nationaldefensemagazine.org/…

Pentagon Sprints to Field Systems to Sustain Troops in Denied Environments | Story by @JLuck42 | @DeptofWar #ContestedLogistics #NDIAPOST26 Read now: nationaldefensemagazine.org/…

"We can't go fast enough." This week, Admiral Samuel Paparo, @USNavy, Commander, @INDOPACOM, testified to the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services on the role of aircraft autonomy to address contested logistics. #contestedlogistics #aviationautonomy

This is great that @FincantieriUS is jumping into the most important #ContestedLogistics platform the US Joint Force is currently moving out on. This is what it looks like when @USNavy taps the ready capacity of great American shipyards. @TimGlinatsis and I are looking for a credible LSM program leader who will come on Rebuilding the Fleet next season to talk about this innovative work.

Huge opportunity to brief @SecWar yesterday. We discussed the critical gap in #contestedlogistics, #counternarcotics, & #maritime #medevac - & how #Seaglider platforms enable asymmetric, distributed operations along our maritime border here & contested areas around the world.

#Wargaming is more than a game. It’s how we prepare. Episode 3 of #DLADialogues Col. Ryan LeBlanc, who discusses how DLA uses wargaming to strengthen planning and modernize for today’s #contestedlogistics challenges. Watch the full episode now: youtube.com/watch?v=dKJ1vbIF… #DefensePodcast #DoW

🚨⚓️Worried about #contestedlogistics in the Pacific? You can't even get down your contested driveway to check the mail tonight - think how hard the Pacific Ocean under fire will be? 🌏I analyzed the Pentagon's maritime logistics fleet: - The fleet architecture - The gaps - The budget lines, leaders, and experiments that give me some hope I'll let you guess - is Army, Navy, or Marine Corps most focused on contested logistics? Check out the full piece linked in my first comment ⤵️

A new #CampaignofLearning burst paper by DLA Director Army Lt. Gen. Mark Simerly and Leighann Martin from the DLA Director’s Strategic Initiatives Group outlines six #logistics truths designed to align logistics practices with modern threats and technologies. 📄 Read the full article here: dla.mil/About-DLA/News/News-… #WhitePaper #LoglinesMagazine #ContestedLogistics

"I envision a future that is radically more automated than it is today." @moof2k shared his vision for the future of Air Superiority at the @AFA_Air_Space 2025 Air, Space, Cyber Conference in September. #aviationautonomy #UAS #LOG #contestedlogistics #airpsaceintegration

🔥 LSCO without LOGISTICS = A BRILLIANT 72-HOUR HIGHLIGHT REEL FOLLOWED BY TOTAL CULMINATION. Old gospel: “Shorten your logistics tail.” New reality: That tail is now 8,000nm long, lit up by satellites, swarming drones, and hypersonic shadows. Trying to “shorten” it just concentrates your logistics (ammo, fuel, water, parts) into fewer, juicier, fixed targets that die on Night 1. The battlefield geometry has flipped: - No contiguous front - No safe rear - Every port, airfield, and command post inside the contested zone from H-hour - Forces scattered across archipelago chains measured in THOUSANDS of miles In this fight, “short logistics” isn’t lean — it’s suicidal. You don’t shorten the tail anymore. You make it LONG, REDUNDANT, DISTRIBUTED, MOBILE, and REGENERATIVE. Prepo afloat. Forward Logistics Elements on every rock. Connector swarms that can’t be decapitated in one strike. Predictive sustainment that pushes before you even know you’re dry. Commanders: Your brigade can be the most lethal on Earth, but if your sustainment plan still thinks like Fulda Gap 1985, you’re bringing a precision-guided speed bump to a long-range kill-web fight. Logistics at distance isn’t a supporting effort. It IS the main effort. Build the 10,000-mile spine — or watch your maneuver force become the world’s most expensive museum exhibit. #ContestedLogistics #NewGeometry #SustainOrDie

Under Sec of War (R&E) Emil Michael announced 6 Critical Technology Areas for the War Dept. Along w/ Scaled Hypersonics and Applied AI is #ContestedLogistics - the ability to get the people & gear into the fight. @regentcraft #seagliders fill this gap. war.gov/News/Releases/Releas…

When customers need autonomy, they turn to Shield AI. Lakota Connector powered by Hivemind: Redefining contested logistics. Hivemind completed its second autonomous helicopter flight test on Airbus US Space & Defense, Inc.’s H145 D3 as part of the @USMC Aerial Logistics Connector program. In just two weeks, Hivemind achieved a fully automated takeoff to landing as the sole mission autonomy on the aircraft, proving once again why Shield AI stands as the leader in autonomy for defense systems. “Our Hivemind Solutions team now has a pedigree on fifteen plus platforms deploying Hivemind in unique CONOPS, unique platforms, and unique environments. One thing that makes it quite easy for Shield is that Hivemind is made to be interoperable, platform agnostic.” - Indy Grewal, Director of Technical Program Management at Shield AI. Come visit us at @AUSAorg next week at Booth 2847 in Hall B to see the world-leading mission autonomy behind the Lakota Connector, built through the combined expertise of Shield AI, Airbus, @L3HarrisTech, and Parry Labs. While you’re there, check out the Lakota helicopter itself on display at Airbus’ Booth 1639. Autonomy for the world. The greatest victory requires no war. #AUSA2025 #FlyArmy #NextGenTech #Autonomy #Helicopter #Aviation #Defense #ContestedLogistics #Airbus

🌏 ⛓️‍💥 Still worried about contested logistics in the Pacific? Us too. 😠 🛩️ When I heard it took 73x C-17 flights to relocate a single Patriot battery from the Pacific to the Middle East, I knew we were more fragile even than I had realized... ...and I've been worried about #contestedlogistics for years. 🎤 On August 7th, I had the pleasure of joining Major General (ret) Edward F Dorman III, Colonel Howard Marotto, and Bulwark Founder Yuta Shiina to talk INDOPACOM, technology, and the major gaps in our force architecture. I'm most worried about 6x gaps: 1️⃣ The Military Sealift Command fleet is more brittle than your grandma's toffee 2️⃣ The @USMC and @USArmy have not a single ship, boat, or maritime connector that has a favorable cost and range matchup with Chinese missiles. Zero. 3️⃣ Fuel moves across @INDOPACOM only on fuel-efficient platforms = $800M oilers (or bigger). Only big platforms are fuel efficient. 4️⃣ All the nodes around which our logistics hub-spoke models are built = targets. 5️⃣ Medical ingress supply lines and medevac egress routes compete for the mantle of most fragile logistics category 6️⃣ The organizations above have neither the history, the budget, nor the expertise to rapidly procure capabilities to fill these gaps. Our audience - heavy in Army and Marine Corps logisticians - was no Navy shipbuilding audience. But today, our best hope may be rapid logistics ship procurement. I point to shipbuilding not because I am building ships, but because the physics of buoyancy makes the surface ship - it has been for millenia - the simplest way to transport large quantities of material. 🇺🇸 🏭 With that in mind, we talked shipbuilding supply chains, and I shared @BlueWaterShips vision of many small shipyards - which today do not contribute to the defense industrial base - building the ships that can create a resilient logistics web across the vast Pacific. Thanks Greg Lewis and Association of Marine Corps Logisticians for hosting a great Global Expeditionary Logistics Symposium and CC to the great leaders attacking this critical vulnerability to our nation.

Shield AI and #Airbus are defining the future of helicopter operations - powered by Hivemind. Hivemind, integrated with Airbus' Helionix flight system and MQ-72C, successfully completed its first autonomous helicopter test flight as part of the U.S. Marine Corps Aerial Logistics Connector program. The software acted as the aircraft’s mission system controller, executing automated takeoff, landing, and other test scenarios. This is just the beginning of our work with Airbus, with more operational scenarios and demonstrations to come as we scale autonomous capabilities. Read the full press release here: bit.ly/3HH2ORs Autonomy for the world. The greatest victory requires no war. #NextGenTech #Autonomy #Helicopter #Aviation #AirPower #Defense #Airbus #ContestedLogistics

At the 2025 Marine Corps/DLA Service Integration Day, logisticians from the @USMC, @DeptofDefense, and DLA came together to strengthen coordination and tackle key #logistics challenges. 🔗 Read more details here: dla.mil/About-DLA/News/News-… #ContestedLogistics #SupplyChainIntegration #IndoPacific #AdvancedManufacturing

High speed. Low signature. Mission ready. #defense #contestedlogistics #seaglidertechnology #maritimeoperations #nationalsecurity #mission #highspeed #seaglider #tech #ready

Key #contestedlogistics capability rolling off the line

“The demand for speed, precision, adaptability and resilience has never been higher,” said Army Lt. Gen. Mark Simerly. DLA and Joint Force logisticians came together to strengthen how the @DeptofDefense identifies, plans for, and responds to future sustainment challenges. Click here to read how DLA is supporting global sustainment in a contested environment: dla.mil/About-DLA/News/News-… #ContestedLogistics #JointLogistics #MissionReadiness

How can DLA help the Department of Defense respond faster and more effectively to the unexpected? A new white paper explores how expanding the #WarstopperProgram could strengthen the industrial base, increase surge capability, and reduce costs in #ContestedLogistics environments. 🔗 Don’t miss the full story! DLA employees can access the paper on the Campaign of Learning site, and DOD employees can request access at the same link: dla.mil/About-DLA/News/News-… #Readiness #CriticalSupplies | @DeptofDefense