Logistics is now on line

HAVE you’ve wondered who organises the movement of ADF personnel and equipment on deployment or how a damaged ASLAV gets repaired or replaced, the answer will soon be only as far away as your keyboard.

Defence Logistics is on line with the Introductory Modules on Logistics in Defence (IMLD) at the Defence Online Campus. IMLD is designed for all personnel who require an understanding of the fundamental logistic issues in Defence.

An initiative of Joint Logistics Command in conjunction with DMO and with significant technical input from Army’s Training Technology Centre, IMLD is the first part of an e-learning product designed to provide a resource for the whole of Defence. Put together by the Logistic Education and Training section of Strategic Logistic Branch, IMLD contains an introduction and overview of Defence Logistics, a description of Government and Defence Logistics interface and segments on the functional areas of logistics.

IMLD content is based on current logistic doctrine contained in the ADDP 4 series and policies and procedures applicable to the services and groups in Defence and, in many cases, examples of their application are included. A glossary of all reference material is provided and a program to maintain and regularly update the package is in place.

The package is a learning environment first, but, it is also an up-to-date information package. The IMLD site is interactive – that is you have to react to it, not just read from the screen – making for a much better learning environment.

The next two segments of the product, currently under development, focus on logistics support to capability and logistics support to operations. These lessons, to be launched later in the year, will be scenario- based with lots of interaction.