Defense Logistics Agency Could Improve Its Oversight of the Maintenance, Repair, and Operations Prime Vendor Contract for Korea (Redacted)

Images of police armored vehicles in Ferguson and Baltimore have been influential in a public conversation about the militarization of the police. However, recent critical and abolitionist work on policing rejects the concept of “militarization” for obscuring the longstanding histories and institutional connections between military and police apparatuses. By following the transfers of armored vehicles to police, this article illuminates the logistical pathways that connect colonial warfare and domestic policing, adding an account of the material composition of police power to the historical work of critical and abolitionist thinkers. The article proceeds through a critical reading of records of the Defense Logistics Agency, tracking the transfer of surplus armored vehicles to the police. Designated as “high-visibility property” by the Defense Logistics Agency, these vehicles testify to the materiality of police power. The article then tracks the visibility and materiality of these vehicles as they are deployed in urban and suburban spaces and considers their unique capacity to suppress the democratic energies of crowds. Tracking the armored vehicle provides a way to ask how the rigid lines of fortified urban space are organized into mobile vectors and where ongoing processes of colonization enter these spatial processes.

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The defense logistics agency and the federal catalog system

Government Information Quarterly ◽

10.1016/0740-624x(92)90003-5 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 291-303

Author(s):

Robert M. Hayes

Keyword(s):

Defense Logistics Agency ◽

Catalog System

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Integrated information support for the production and services on the basis of open technical vocabulary

MATEC Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/matecconf/201825106003 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 251 ◽

pp. 06003

Author(s):

Vera Cherkina

Keyword(s):

Information Flow ◽

Western Europe ◽

International System ◽

The United States ◽

International Standards ◽

Information Support ◽

Master Data ◽

Technical Vocabulary ◽

The Us ◽

Defense Logistics Agency

Among the various directions in the development of Russian processes for standardizing products, both military and civilian, taking into account the international system for standardizing the information flow of data on products and technologies, the questions of improving of master data as a material carrier of information. The problem of data quality is payed increased attention, especially in countries of Western Europe, and primarily the United States. Developed and implemented are the corresponding series of international standards - ISO-8000, regulating the structure, syntax, semantics, portability and other attributes of data, and ISO-22745, determining their quality. Both standards were proposed by the US Defense Logistics Agency (DLA).

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