It is necessary to underestimate the literal changes of Zhongxing Group from a sporadic product supplier to a designated arms supplier. This is a double harvest for Zhongxing Group in both economic and political aspects. As the US government is the world's largest single buyer in terms of economy and politics, the military occupies the majority of its procurement list. Obtaining its orders means a long-term stable and lucrative big business.

In recent years, the US military has spent astronomical expenditures in Afghanistan and Iraq. In particular, the US military has always liked to rely on high-tech weapons. In recent days, the US military has developed more than using soldiers' lives to win wars. The US military prefers to use expensive precise guided bombs to open the way, which is what is commonly called spending money on people. Most of these military expenditures are the purchase expenses of weapons and equipment. Many of them used to fall into the pockets of major American arms companies, but now many small and medium-sized manufacturers have been added.

The arms business has always been a profitable industry, and the US military's procurement contracts are often priced at tens of millions or billions of dollars, which is definitely a large order. Moreover, the United States' image of being invincible in the world has also greatly promoted American weapons. In addition to selling arms to the US military, they can also sell them to many other "little brothers" countries. If they become designated suppliers of the US military, they can use the US military's golden sign to increase their brand. Selling them to other countries will naturally increase the price and make a lot of money.

Therefore, in order to obtain a long-term contract from the US military, many merchants become designated suppliers and sell their own products at a low price and lose money. They even use high bribery to purchase officers, causing bribery scandals to frequently break out during the US military's procurement process. This shows the great economic benefits that can bring to become designated suppliers of the US military.

Now the Pentagon in the United States directly approached Zhongxing Group. To make it a designated supplier, this is a very affirmation of Zhongxing's manufacturing capabilities. The treatment of asking to go to the door to deliver products is definitely different from that of others asking you to make products. In addition to the economic benefits brought by the recognition of the US military, this is also a good publicity for Zhongxing's image.

It also means that Zhongxing has gained recognition from the mainstream class in the political field of the United States. After all, many of Zhongxing's business plans in the United States have been blocked by the political cold wave. Now even the military, the most conservative fortress, has agreed to accept Zhongxing products, which means that Yang Xing and Zhongxing Group have passed the political censorship of the United States. Although many of these are credits to political lobbying and behind-the-scenes transactions, it means that Zhongxing can make great progress in the United States.

Of course, Yang Xing also explained in detail to the two leaders that in fact, the name of designated suppliers of the military should not be too mysterious. Because compared with the past, the US military's arms procurement model has undergone tremendous changes. During the Cold War, the supply of US military equipment was basically monopolized by large arms companies. They controlled the research and development and supply of almost all equipment. After the Cold War, with the rise of commercial revolution, the performance of civilian commodities was improved unprecedentedly, and even surpassed the customized military products of military enterprises in fields such as information and electronics. Therefore, US military equipment procurement began to undergo large-scale reforms in 1994, and changed from dedicated military products to purchasing "merchandise on shelves."

After ten years of practice, the US military believes that this procurement model not only saves a lot of R&D funds, but also saves procurement time. The US Congress also stipulates that military procurement must achieve the goal of 22% of the products from private small and medium-sized enterprises. With this background, it has become a normal practice for the US Department of Defense to purchase military products from small and medium-sized enterprises around the world. Therefore, the Pentagon's intention to purchase arms from Zhongxing Group is not to directly use for combat. Instead, some logistics supplies and components, it is no big deal.

This time, the US military has not intended to make a big announcement to disturb the people. The Pentagon does not deal with Zhongxing directly, but the US Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is the contact unit for China Star Group in the future. According to US law, the Defense Supply Center under the Defense Logistics Agency generally does not need to check the supplier's background when purchasing non-core weapon parts. This is the main reason why China Star Group has a special identity, but can still obtain large orders from the US military with good goodwill.

The identity of the designated supplier of the US military is just a springboard. With this, what Yang Xing can attach great importance to the two leaders is actually a new requirement put forward by the US Department of Defense for Zhongxing Group. That is, DLA expressed that it is very interested in Zhongxing Group's latest "star computing" and "Internet of Things" plans. In the last two anti-terrorism wars, the information performance of the US military's logistics system has not satisfied the upper class. It proposed to upgrade its famous "global asset visual system" and introduce these two latest technologies, and it is undoubtedly the most efficient and suitable. As the initiator of this technology, Zhongxing Group will definitely become DLA's first choice.

The US military's logistics department is probably the most complex and largest professional group in the world. During the Cold War, the US Department of Defense spent more than US$100 billion on its annual budget for security functions. There were 800,000 people engaged in security work in logistics departments at all levels alone! To this end, the US military began to actively promote the logistics revolution in the late 1980s, greatly reducing its scale, and transforming the inefficient traditional logistics model into a high-efficiency new type of logistics.

During World War II, in order to cope with the huge logistics needs of modern mechanized war, the United States established more than 20 support systems, resulting in many political and extremely chaotic management. The US Congress was very dissatisfied. After applying great pressure, it finally established the US Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) in 1961. The main function is to provide logistical support for US military weapons and other materials, as well as provide support from allies and provide humanitarian support for certain natural disasters if necessary.

What made DLA shine was the Gulf War in 1991. The "global asset visual system" it developed was a sign of the US military's logistical shift from the industrial era to the information era, and it is also the core factor in the significant improvement of the US military's logistical support efficiency. The system combines automatic identification technology, global transportation network, joint resource information database and decision support system, so that the joint force commanders can continuously grasp the dynamics of all logistics resources, track "personnel flow", "equipment flow" and "material flow" throughout the process, and command and control their reception, distribution and exchange, thus greatly improving the efficiency of logistics support.

During the war, the US Logistics Information Processing Center had only 1,500 staff members, but it allowed the delivery of tens of thousands of troops, hundreds of millions of expenses, and hundreds of thousands of different models and specifications of equipment and materials to proceed smoothly. At the same time, it was necessary to coordinate the weapons and personnel arrangements of troops from thousands of miles away from more than a dozen national forces. There was no major mistake. Without the "global asset visual system", it was simply unimaginable. DLA and "global asset visual system" became famous. After the war, many countries began to imitate the US military to establish their own information logistics support systems. Due to the low starting point of informatization, the Chinese ** team has reached the level of informatization in the early 1990s. They are now proposing a "big logistics" system that will make the logistics support of the three armies one after another, relying on a simplified version of the "global asset visual system".

But times changed. When the US attacked Iraq in 2003, the "global asset visual system" encountered new problems. In the early days of the Iraq War, the US military, the 3rd Mechanical Division, was the main attacker of the ground, rushed straight in, advancing 170 kilometers a day. If the logistics support in this context cannot be achieved "instant supply" under the premise of "proficient in calculations", they will only be exhausted. Sure enough, the army is progressing smoothly, but food cannot keep up, and the oil and ammunition is exhausted. Many troops had to stop and wait in the dusty weather with hunger. Fortunately, the Iraqi army performed worse. If a unit took the opportunity to surround the division, the end of the Iraq War might have to be rewritten.

This situation made the Pentagon very angry, and ordered the investigation of the reasons, requiring DLA to comprehensively upgrade the "Global Asset Visibility System" and jointly implement the "Asset Visibility Integration Project" with the US Military Transportation Command, integrating the infrastructure and service-centric architecture of the National Defense Logistics Bureau's comprehensive data environment with relevant systems supporting the US Military Transportation Command's "Global Transportation Network" into a unified sharing platform for relevant departments to access common data and asset visible information.

On the one hand, this can realize the dynamic visualization of all guarantee resources and guarantee needs, laying the foundation for the organization to ensure timely, appropriately, and appropriately. On the other hand, the guarantee forces of various military branches and all aspects of society can be integrated and utilized, and through the comprehensive integration of various guarantee elements, guarantee units, and guarantee systems, effective control of all guarantee activities can be achieved.

Of course, this idea is very beautiful. In practice, one problem is that it requires registration of every device and weapon of the United States like stars. It cannot be completed by manpower alone. Even if computer processing is used, the amount of information is too much, and the cost of computing and analysis is amazing. According to traditional ideas, each logistics center needs to be configured with hundreds or thousands of supercomputer servers to be enough. Even the rich and powerful US military cannot bear it. The ready-made solution is to rely on "star computing" and "Internet of Things".

Traditional computer terminal computing and storage capabilities are very limited. Using star computing technology can establish a modern logistics command and control information system with strong compatibility. This system uses the star computing platform as the "brain", and through the "nerve" transmission of the Internet of Things, it realizes the dynamic configuration and expansion of large-scale server groups, provides data processing and storage services on demand, and realizes the rapid calculation, comprehensive analysis and organic integration of various types of information, so as to accurately and in real time to provide command personnel at all levels with various types of information required for logistics command decisions and support, and achieves a leapfrog improvement in the logistics support capabilities of information wars.

The cheap terminal RFID sensor in the Internet of Things can also replace traditional barcodes, with a large amount of information about the device items themselves, informing the location and usage of the Internet of Things at any time, and selecting the most reasonable routes and solutions for users, so that users can be freed from the vast amount of information and only paying attention to the final logistical results.!~!
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