"This Posture Statement outlines USTRANCOM's steps toward the future, assessing both today's readiness and tomorrow's challenges. Guided by the CJCS' Joint Vision 2010 concept of focused logistics, USTRANSCOM's course for 1997 and beyond hinges on three vitally important themes: 1) maintaining our readiness to perform our global missions, 2) preparing now to operate effectively in the twenty-first century through modernization and upgrade of USTRANSCOM assets, and 3) continually improving the key processes in our Defense Transportation System."

Focused Logistics and the Future DTS; Readiness; The Component Commands; Peacetime/Contingency Operations; Wartime Requirements; Partnership with Industry; Modernization; Sealift; Afloat Prepositioning; Surge Sealift; Sustainment Sealift; Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore; Air Mobility; C-17; Our Aging Fleet; Global Air Traffic Management; Material Handling Equipment; Infrastructure; Mobility Enhancement Funds; Army Strategic Mobility Program; Information Systems; Global Transportation Network; Processes; Deployment Process Improvement; Our Peacetime Customers; Internal Reengineering Efforts; Reengineering Personal Property; Our People; Final Thoughts