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Michigan committee hears $15 million request to build 'contested-logistics' training center and mobile medical units
Summary
Presenters told the House Committee on Homeland Security and Foreign Influence that a one-time $15 million state contribution would add infrastructure at Camp Grayling, Alpena and Selfridge for a contested-logistics training center and buy deployable medical hospital trailers; members pressed for economic estimates and federal funding certainty.
At a meeting of the House Committee on Homeland Security and Foreign Influence, presenters from the Michigan Research Institute and PM Partners outlined a plan to establish a contested-logistics training center centered at Camp Grayling and requested a one-time $15,000,000 state contribution to add infrastructure and purchase mobile medical units.
"Contested logistics is basically what Amazon does for you every day," retired Lt. Col. George Patton said during the briefing, explaining the term as efforts by adversaries to disrupt the delivery of fuel, food, ammunition and equipment to forces in the field. Jim Richter, president of the Michigan Research Institute, described a three-phase effort already underway that the presenters said would accelerate training, experimentation and insertion of sustainment technologies into military operations.
Presenters said the state contribution would pay primarily…
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