Overview:
Advanced materials and production technologies, including additive manufacturing and new energy-dense materials, fundamentally alter expeditionary logistics, basing flexibility, and sustainment tempo.

Doctrinal Impact:
Impacts Combat Support and Air Mobility Operations, challenging current assumptions on:

·       Supply chain resilience

·       Rapid repair and part replacement

·       Forward operating base construction and survivability

·       Command decisions on distributed basing and sustainment concepts

Application in Discovery:
Discovery should examine how:

·       Additive manufacturing capabilities can be embedded within agile combat employment (ACE) nodes

·       Advanced composites increase platform stealth, survivability, and logistics ease

·       New materials impact aerospace system design for contested logistics environments

Expected Outcomes:
Doctrine recommendations will inform ACE, sustainment doctrine, and adaptive basing strategies to leverage production innovations in future conflict settings.