Afghanistan Region Update

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Afghanistan Region Update
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Agenda

• OCONUS future customer challenges
• Northern Ground Line of Communication (NGLOC)
• Other topics

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OCONUS Future Customer Challenges

• Planning infrastructure requirements for possible
  future surge or troop reductions
• Road closures
• Modeled various scenarios to determine
  capabilities
• Landing rights
• Short and medium term infrastructure solutions
• Drawdown in conjunction with maintaining current
  level of support
• A drop in head count may not have direct
  correlation in terms of infrastructure
  requirements

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Northern Ground Line of Communication (NGLOC)

• Test of one 40-ft container of MREs
• From Marengo IN on 10 Jun 2008
• Moved via DTS but looked commercial
• Warehouse USDA inspected
• Intense documentation
• Container held in Gioia Tauro IT
• 24 days due to port congestion in Poti DE
• Container arrived in Poti DE 7 Aug 2008
• 8 Aug 2008 Russian/Georgia conflict
• Container submitted for humanitarian relief

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NGLOC A Look Ahead

• Subsistence prime vendor conducting a commercial
  test of 3 trucks
• From Germany and Austria
• Began end of Aug 2008
• Normal transit set at 22 days
• Held at Afghanistan border
• Latest update?

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Other Topics

• Public Key Infrastructure STORES
• Certificates will be required for
• STORES Web
• RECON Tool
• Market Ready Invoice Tool
• Requires CAC or External Certificate Authority
  (ECA)
• Affects
• Subsistence personnel, customers and vendors
• Do all you can to comply
• You will have access while you obtain ECA

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Other Topics

• Locking fields in STORES
• STORES 3.8 field locking logic for
• Vendor item description
• Package size
• Package unit of measure
• Packaging code
• In preparation for CFMS
• Requires new 832 transaction set
• There is time to comply

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Questions?