ATAVS

Army Total Asset Visibility (ATAV) is an automated capability that will improve dramatically the ability of soldiers, logisticians, and managers to obtain information on the location, quantity, condition, and movement of assets through the logistics pipeline.

During Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, thousands of containers had to be opened, manually inventoried, resealed, and reinserted into the pipeline because of a lack of visibility of their contents.

The Army Logistics Integration Agency (LIA), which is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, is responsible for the development, management, and Army-wide implementation of the ATAV capability. This includes the integration of condition based maintenance into the logistics chain.

Global Defense Electronics and affiliate MIS-2000, are extending ATAV (CBM+) from vehicle in the field, by providing research and technology focused on wireless connectivity from real-time vehicle and weapons systems communication to backend repositories and logistics systems to ultimately provide field commanders with up- to-date information regarding supply status.