General Says Transcom Effectively Delivering Security Assistance to Ukraine - Department of Defense

U.S. Transportation Command's ngo is to present manpower, materiel and humanitarian assistance globally by land, oversea and aerial astatine velocity and standard during peacetime arsenic good arsenic war' and that is connected afloat show with businesslike and effectual information assistance assistance flowing to Ukraine, said its commander.

Transcom commander, Air Force Gen. Jacqueline D. Van Ovost provided the keynote code contiguous astatine the National Defense Transportation Association-Transcom autumn meeting. 

"Today, our logistical prowess remains connected afloat show arsenic we equilibrium the rigors of our planetary mission, portion ensuring Ukraine receives the assistance indispensable to support their nation. I'll stake [Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin wishes helium had proscription and logistics experts conscionable similar you," she told the audience.

Even earlier the large-scale Russian penetration of Ukraine earlier this year, Transcom was delivering weapons and instrumentality to Ukraine that would person nonstop impacts connected the battlefield, Van Ovost pointed out. 

"Our spot is derived from the interconnection of our capabilities, the resilience of our planetary web and the dedication of our people. This is simply a strategical vantage we indispensable evolve," she said. 

Besides Russia, China is the different strategical competitor, she said. 

Transcom is keenly alert of the menace posed by China to Transcom's cyber network, and Transcom has taken steps to guarantee the web is secure, for example, implementing zero trust, she said. 

Also, artificial quality and instrumentality learning volition play a portion successful cybersecurity and effectual command, power and communications Transcom requires to integrate and nonstop its intermodal transport system, she said. 

The different menace China poses is to the agelong logistical travel from the United States to the acold reaches of the Western Pacific, she said. 

With that successful mind, Transcom is focused connected securing harmless and credible logistical transition present and successful the aboriginal to the Indo-Pacific Command allies and partners, she said. 

"To vie effectively, we indispensable person agile, resistant, survivable and sustainable logistics, each starring to delivering lethality. … To win we indispensable follow the mentality that situation is not synonymous with intolerable and contested is not the aforesaid arsenic impenetrable. Significant opportunities beryllium successful this situation to exploit our expertise to deploy, maneuver and prolong the associated force," she said.