Sustainment Portal Provides Relevant Tool to Improve Readiness Dr. Reginald L. Snell

Commanders now have anew resource to help improve readiness. The Sustainment Unit One-Stop (SUOS) portal is a “one stop shop,” designed to provide commanders and staffs current supply, maintenance, ammunition, explosive ordnance, transportation, human resources and finance collective training and lessons-learned products. The SUOS portal supports the sustainment warfighting function, which in turn supports the Army’s ability to suc cessfully achieve its core competencies of combined-arms maneuver and wide-area security. The sustainment warfighting function consists of logis tics, personnel services and health-service support. The sustainment warfighting function provides capabilities that ensure land forces have the freedom of action, operational reach and prolonged endurance required to pre vent conflict, shape the operational environment and win our nation’s wars.1 The application of sustainment as a component of strategic landpower is guided by doctrine, lessons-learned and other relevant resources. SUOS provides current sustainment-related references for commanders and staffs to use when planning operations.2 SUOS is sponsored by the Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM), which is responsible for training, edu cating and growing adaptive sustain ment professionals; and developing and integrating innovative Army and joint sustainment capabilities, concepts and doctrine to enable unified land operations.3 SUOS is an excellent resource for sustainment references and streamlines the collective training, doctrine and lessons-learned products into five categories (operational units, training, multifunctional units, functional units and other units). The Common Access Card-protected portal is an official U. S. Army Website that provides contact information for collaboration with CASCOM propo nents. The portal can be accessed at http://www.cascom.army.mil/g_staff/ g3/SUOS/index.htm or by typing Sustainment Unit One Stop Portal into any unclassified search engine. Reggie Snell is a senior doctrine devel oper, Joint and Allied Doctrine Branch, G-3, CASCOM, Fort Lee, VA. He previ ously served as a concept developer with Joint and Army Concepts Division, Army Capabilities Integration Center, Fort Eustis, VA; experimentation team chief and military analyst, Sustainment Battle Lab, Sustainment Center of Excellence, CASCOM, Fort Lee; and resource manager, Chief of Staff of the Army Task Force Logistics, CASCOM, Fort Lee. Dr. Snell holds a master’s of science degree from Central Michigan University and a PhD from Capella University in education, with a specializa tion in training and performance improvement. A decorated veteran, Dr. Snell served 22 years on active duty in the U. S. Army with assignments in in fantry (light, motorized, mechanized, airborne, air assault) and armor units. Notes 1 Army Doctrinal Reference Publication 4-0, Sustainment, July 31, 2012. 2 SUOS, http://www.cascom.army.mil/g_ staff/g3/SUOS/index.htm. 3 CASCOM “about us” Webpage, http:// www.cascom.army.mil/about/index.htm. Acronym Quick-Scan CASCOM – Combined Armed Support Command SUOS – Sustainment Unit One-Stop TRADOC – (U. S. Army) Training and Doctrine Command