KBSI applied the tools and experience gained from the Phase I and Phase II CBASE program to develop the CBASE III system and supporting methodology for cost/benefit analysis-driven functional process improvement.

Driving the CBASE III project was the need for better awareness of how logistics support processes are and can support theater warfare plans. Dominant battlespace awareness is embodied in the logistics domain through the concept of focused logistics: the fusion of information, logistics, and transportation technologies to provide rapid crisis response, to track and shift assets even while enroute, and to deliver tailored logistics packages and sustainment directly at the strategic, operational, and tactical level of operations.

Implied in these goals is the ability to capture, store, and maintain an integrated picture of the operational, system, and technical dimensions of the Defense Transportation System enterprise. An integrated picture of the DTS is obtained by building, maintaining, relating, and applying models representing the critical architectural dimensions of the DTS. Models of the DTS make its capabilities and limitations transparent to process owners, application developers, operational and logistics planners, and ultimately, the theater commander. For example, operational requirements can be used as input to a DTS process simulation model to quickly provide feedback on plan feasibility and to maximize DTS effectiveness in meetingcritical theater support requirements. When DTS performance falls short of existing or anticipated operational requirements, the models can also be used to define and test changes to the DTS itself. Insofar as models of the DTS are integrated, the impacts of change to any one architectural dimension on the others can also be rapidly assessed.