Systems architecting the future of U.S. Coast Guard operational logistics : a framework for enhancing mission support responsiveness

Enterprises that are successful over the long term are compelled to continuously transform in order to adapt to complexity and challenges. Often, many of these transformation efforts fail to achieve the desired future state objectives. The United States Coast Guard (USCG) initiated a major modernization effort over a decade ago that created a Mission Support enterprise responsible for acquiring and maintaining the complex surface, aviation, shore, and IT assets and systems while supporting workforce readiness to conduct both planned and contingency operations. Within the modernization milestones, the Director of Operational Logistics (DOL), Logistics and Service Centers, and regional Bases were established to provide a single point of accountability to the field. After several years of operating in this construct, several barriers still obstruct the Mission Support enterprise from achieving integrated, customer-centric, optimized delivery of operational logistics.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• McGuinness, Eugene D.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Donna H. Rhodes.

• Engineering Systems Division.
• System Design and Management Program.

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• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/145233

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