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Logistics Management > Integrated Logistics Support Plans

As the demarcation lines between acquisition and sustainment have become blurred, The Columbia Group (TCG) has applied an integrated life cycle approach to handle the new broader logistics spectrum. TCG vigorously assists our customers in the development of Integrated Support Plans, enabling the creation of the requisite policies, procedures, and methods needed to meet mission performance and operational requirements in the most timely and effective manner.

TCG devises customer tailored Integrated Logistics Support Plans (ILSP) to ensure that all logistics elements are addressed appropriately and specific implementation plans outlining support relationships, processes, and reporting chains are created. We are expert in constructing methodologies to create strategic alternatives to modernization or redundancy issues, system improvement in the field, and configuration management to ensure military capability effectiveness.

TCG has enabled the seamless incorporation of new technology, modernization through spares, and obsolescence protection while optimizing system readiness and successfully satisfying all performance and mission readiness goals.

Our Expertise

  • Provide a full range of expert ILSP services for systems acquisition, systems architecture, systems engineering, distribution, maintenance, sustainment, and disposal/reutilization
  • Contribute to the creation of supply chain management strategies, work load allocation strategies, and the resolution of unanticipated requirements and unplanned situations
  • Assist in logistical support efforts for crucial operations to be sustained in times of military environmental change and emergencies
"Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics."

– Tom Peters-Rule #3: Leadership Is Confusing As Hell, Fast Company, March 2001