LMI Expert Testifies Before House Subcommittee on Armed Services Readiness

March 8, 2013 - PRLog -- Dr. Nick Avdellas, from LMI’s Maintenance and Materiel Readiness Group, testified before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness that sequestration is an opportunity to rethink how the Department of Defense (DoD) addresses its goals for a ready military.

“I believe the situation must prompt Congress and the DoD to do some critical deliberating about the nature of the relationship of logistics, or sustainment, to our military strategy,” Avdellas testified, recommending that “DoD, industry and the Military Services establish strategic planning capabilities that can address the challenges of maintaining responsive sustainment capabilities in the face of declining resources, including the application of experiments or prototype arrangements that could substantially contribute to the objective.”

Avdellas’ testimony before the subcommittee was part of a hearing on assuring viability of the sustainment industrial base, a critical element of military readiness. Avdellas urged a strategic view of the challenges at hand while employing tools already available to federal leaders.

“There are tools within the Department...there’s a starting point to really be able understand the commodities within the industrial base that ally are at risk or that we need to be paying attention to,” Avdellas testified.

You can view the hearing, including Avdellas’ testimony here (http://www.youtube.com/v/exewFjDld2s?version=3&hl=en_...), along with his submitted testimony here (http://www.lmi.org/News---Publications/News/docs/HHRG-113...).

Reporters seeking more information should contact Matt Daigle at 703-677-3621, or mdaigle@lmi.org.

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