The Defense Transportation System (DTS) is an integral part of the
total global transportation system and involves procedures,
resources, and interrelationships of several Department of Defense
(DOD), federal, commercial, and non- US activities that support DOD
transportation needs. Support of national strategy must include
modern, flexible, responsive global transportation that is capable
of integrating military, commercial, and host-nation resources. The
transition period from peacetime to war may be extremely short;
thus the concept of operations for the US Transportation Command
(USTRANSCOM) provides for a process of global transportation
management. This process establishes an integrated transportation
system to be used across the range of military operations providing
the most effective use of air mobility, sealift, rail, pipeline,
and land transportation resources from origin to destination. The
transportation database, prepared through the Joint Operation
Planning and Execution System, provides commanders and planners
with adequate force requirements, other deployment data, and
sustainment information. The Secretary of Defense is responsible
for overall transportation planning and operations within DOD. The
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff reviews and evaluates
movement requirements and resources, apportions capability, and
allocates capability when required. The Commander, USTRANSCOM
provides air, land, and sea transportation, common-user port
management and terminal services per the Unified Command Plan for
DOD across the range of military operations through the
transportation component commands: Air Mobility Command, Military
Sealift Command, and Military Traffic Management Command. This
system includes the effective use of theater military and
commercial transportation assets identified during and coordinated
through the combatant command's joint movement center plan
development. The Military Departments are responsible for
organizing, training, equipping, and providing the logistic support
of their respective forces as well as maintaining an effective
transportation program. The Secretary of Transportation has a wide
range of delegated responsibilities for allocating civil
transportation resources, including executive management of the
Nation's transportation resources. The Secretary of Transportation
is assisted by many agencies, including the Federal Aviation
Administration, the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal
Railroad Administration, the Maritime Administration, Surface
Transportation Board of the Office of Energy (Transportation), and
the US Coast Guard. Other Federal agencies, state, and local
transportation organizations and civil carriers also aid the
Secretary of Transportation. There are many types of transportation
resources available to DOD that are used, activated, and augmented
across the range of military operations. These resources include
air mobility, sealift, land, port operation, pre-positioned, and
intermodal assets, both foreign and domestic. The same procedures
are used across the range of military operations and forecast
movement requirements, allocate resources, execute movement of
people and cargo, and provide visibility of movements. During
peacetime, the Services and Defense Logistics Agency are
responsible for the determination, collection, and submission of
the movement requirements for air mobility, sealift, and
continental US civil transportation to USTRANSCOM. During wartime
and/or contingencies the supported combatant commander, in
coordination with supporting combatant commanders and Services,
establishes movement requirements and priority by developing a
deployment and/or redeployment plan for joint operations. This
publication covers the interrelationships and applications of the
DTS. It focuses on combatant commanders, their Service component
commands, and all agencies that use the DTS.
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