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The Logistics Lens is a defense logistics podcast dedicated to improving military readiness, sustainment effectiveness, and supply chain resilience across the Department of Defense and the defense industrial base. The podcast provides a practical, mission-focused forum where real sustainment challenges are examined alongside proven, executable solutions.
Each episode features candid conversations with leaders from the DoD, industry, and academia who are responsible for keeping fleets ready and forces supplied. Discussions focus on lifecycle management, fleet readiness, maintenance, repair, and overhaul, and the systems and data required to support operational availability. Core topics include predictive maintenance, condition-based maintenance (CBM+), readiness analytics, performance-based logistics, and strategies for managing industrial base risk.
A central theme of The Logistics Lens is translating data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and digital logistics tools into actionable sustainment decisions. Rather than theory, the podcast emphasizes evidence-based methods that measurably increase availability and reduce cost per day of availability. Episodes highlight case studies, metrics, and frameworks that help leaders move beyond pilots and prototypes toward repeatable, scalable practices.
The podcast was created to close the gap between policy and practice and to unify stakeholders who rarely share lessons learned in one place. By fostering dialogue among logisticians, program managers, engineers, analysts, and original equipment manufacturers, The Logistics Lens strengthens collaboration across programs, Services, and enterprises.
Listeners gain executive-grade insights, practical tools, and a durable knowledge base designed to improve decision quality, accelerate adoption of proven sustainment approaches and strengthen the defense industrial base. The Logistics Lens serves commanders, program managers, and sustainment professionals seeking to advance readiness today while building resilient logistics systems for the future.
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The Pacific Problem: Distance, Deterrence, and Logistics at Scale
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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Mission-Ready Logistics: Rewiring Defense Sustainment for Speed and Resilience with SES Leigh Method, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of War for Sustainment
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May 22, 2026 |
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Innovation Under Fire: Leadership and Logistics in Complex Environments, Col (ret) Kirk Spangenberg
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May 12, 2026 |
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Four Decades of Service: Leadership Lessons from Airman to Brigadier General with Max Stitzer
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May 05, 2026 |
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Mission First, Functions Second: Bridging Ops and Logistics with General (ret) Jim Slife
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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Material Readiness in the Modern Era: Patrick Kelleher on Supply Chains, Innovation, and Warfighting
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Taming Data Chaos and Legacy Systems with AI with RADM (ret) Doug Noble
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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How the Military Moves the World: From Steel to Software with VADM (Ret) Mark Harnitchek
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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Preparing in Peace, Winning in War: Logistics and Reform with The Honorable Alan F. Estevez
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Operational Logistics at Scale: Decision-Making in Defense with LTG (Ret.) John Sullivan
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Trust, Technology, and Transformation: Modernizing Military Logistics with Vice Admiral Andy Kyte
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Leadership Beyond the Mission: What It Takes to Lead in Logistics with Lt Gen (Ret) Tom Miller
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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You Can’t Be Lethal Without Logistics: Inside DLA with Mark T. Simerly LTG, U.S. Army
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Logistics Is Operations: Developing Leaders with Lt Gen (Ret) Mark Faulkner
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Why Logistics Wins Wars: Digital Transformation on the Battlefield with Maj Gen (ret) Allan Day
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Logistics as a Weapon System: AI, Innovation, and Leadership with Brigadier General Jeff Kent
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Revolutionizing Military Logistics: Regional Sustainment Framework with Joe Brooks Interview
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Jan 05, 2026 |