March 4, 2022
We've reached our fifth and final special edition Transporter focused on the USTRANSCOM Priorities. In this last installment, "Empower a Competitive and Resilient Warfighting Team."
You and your teammates are the most important asset to the Joint Deployment Distribution Enterprise (JDDE). You are vital to our mission to project and sustain combat credible forces whenever and wherever our Nation requires.
As you know, the strategic environment is evolving rapidly, so we'll be operating at a pace and scale we’ve never seen before. Our success is a direct representation of your daily efforts and why it’s essential we empower a competitive and resilient warfighting team.
One of the foundations of a high-performing team is trust. The baseline of trust is inclusion and treating everyone with dignity and respect.
Strength also comes from our diversity – we must demonstrate that each member is valued since differing perspectives bring better solutions to complex problems.
This Transporter also serves as a rollup of all Priorities issues that preceded it. Scroll down for a good review of material we covered over the past five weeks. Follow us on social media and our website at www.ustranscom.mil for similar informational products.
Thank you for being the heartbeat of this command and for all you do to support our Joint Force. Your efforts will be the difference between victory and defeat.
Together, We Deliver!
Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost, Commander – U.S Transportation Command
Watch the video on "Empower a Competitive ... Team":
USTRANSCOM Team, the stakes are high – we must take disciplined risks. We must encourage innovation within the enterprise, and to maintain and build systemic advantages:
- People are our most valuable resource.
- A competitive and resilient team is one which thrives on challenge and uses honest mistakes as opportunities to learn and improve.
- Investing in our people includes promoting an environment in which resilience is strengthened by demonstrating that we value the families in our command as well as the personal wellbeing of all.
- One of our key strengths is the diversity of our team. We will maintain an inclusive environment where we welcome differing backgrounds and encourage varied perspectives.
USTRANSCOM thrives when we invest in our people and allow them to develop more effective ways to operate. We must demonstrate that each member is valued, which gives them the confidence to speak up. Differing perspectives bring better solutions to our complex problems.
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Drive Cyber Domain Mission Assurance
Video on "Drive Cyber Domain Mission Assurance":
Maintaining our cyber domain advantage is why a culture of cyber discipline across the entire Joint Deployment and Distribution Enterprise, to include our industry partners, is so critical.
Crucial to enhancing our cyber posture:
- executing cybersecurity practices,
- assessing our efforts, and
- engaging with industry partners to mitigate vulnerabilities, strengthen weaknesses, and share best practices.
Make no mistake, YOU are a cyber defender and the security of our global enterprise relies on YOUR vigilance.
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Create Decision Advantage
Video introducing "Create Decision Advantage":
Today’s decision-making is pressurized by:
- the security environment,
- the volume of information available, and
- the speed at which it travels.
Time can mean the difference between:
- preventing a crisis,
- prevailing in conflict, or
- providing life-saving resources around the world.
Photo: Quartermaster Seaman Gilicio Richie acts as the status board operator on the bridge wing aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105) during a replenishment-at-sea with the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS John Ericsson (T-AO 194), Jan. 20, 2022. Dewey is assigned to Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15 and is underway supporting a Free and Open Indo-Pacific. CTF 71/DESRON 15 is the Navy’s largest forward-deployed DESRON and the U.S. 7th Fleet’s principal surface force. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Benjamin A. Lewis)
Our ability to transform data into knowledge rapidly enables timely decisions, and remains critical in outpacing our adversaries.
Data tells a story, which YOU place into context, and transcribe for leadership.
By utilizing data through our networks and logistics systems, and applying analytics to transform that data into actionable knowledge, we can provide time, space, and options to make decisions at multiple echelons.
YOUR job expertise allows leaders to sense, make sense, decide, and act faster.
Photo: Emergency responders from the Ohio National Guard’s 180th Fighter Wing and Monclova Township Fire Department, along with aeromedical evacuation teams assigned to the 445th Airlift Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, unload a simulated patient from a C-17 Globemaster III assigned to Joint Base Mcguire-Dix-Lakehurst during a joint military and civilian exercise at the 180FW in Swanton, Ohio, April 28, 2021. The exercise was part of Ultimate Caduceus, an annual patient movement exercise designed to test the ability of U.S. Transportation Command to provide medical evacuation. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Kregg York)
Video announcing "Ready Now and in the Future":
USTRANSCOM’s mission is enduring, and warfighting readiness is, and will remain, our top priority. Which is why we need to be ready now and in the future.
Our command exists to project and sustain combat credible forces whenever and wherever our nation requires. It is imperative that we retain our transportation capabilities at a moment’s notice. To do this, we must remain Ready.
The character of war is constantly changing, and we can no longer expect to operate under the same conditions we did yesterday and still be successful tomorrow. We must advocate for the tools needed for mission success and speak up on ways to be more efficient.
Our “fight tonight” mentality ensures we are prepared to tackle the missions of today, while evolving to meet the challenges of tomorrow.
YOU are critical to warfighting readiness and improving our existing processes. Your ability to adapt our operations, shape our capabilities, evolve our operational concepts, and make the investments required to fight, provides this command the strength to win against any competitor.
We are a Total Force team. Every Active, Guard, Reserve, Merchant Marine, Civilian, and contractor’s unique skills are vital to our readiness. The synergy of talents from this team yields an unmatchable strategic expertise for our command and the entire JDDE.
Your collaboration and resolve are crucial to achieving innovative and successful results and they solidify our warfighting readiness. Thank you for your diligence and continued hard work to be Ready Now and in the Future.
“Our 'fight tonight' mentality ensures we are prepared to tackle the missions of today, while evolving to meet the challenges of tomorrow. YOU are critical to warfighting readiness and improving our existing processes.” – Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost
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USTRANSCOM Priorities
Jan. 31 video announcing the new command priorities:
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What is "Transporter"?
U.S. Transportation Command's Transporter offers a rollup of highlighted events covered on command websites and social media for USTRANSCOM members and employees, their families and friends, and the public with whom this is shared. We aim to highlight the great work our team does day in and day out across the command and across the globe.
Together, we deliver.
USTRANSCOM exists as a warfighting combatant command to project and sustain military power at a time and place of the nation’s choosing. Powered by dedicated men and women, USTRANSCOM underwrites the lethality of the Joint Force, advances American interests around the globe, and provides our nation's leaders with strategic flexibility to select from multiple options, while creating multiple dilemmas for our adversaries.