The logistics infrastructure in DoDEA Pacific East exists to support and enhance the educational process. This support is accomplished through effectively securing and managing student transportation, materials, and interservice support resources and ensuring that students benefit from a safe, physically-secure environment. The Interservice Support team works to enrich the educational process by providing administrative and logistical support for the benefit of school administrators, teachers, and students. The team simultaneously realizes efficiencies through review and negotiations of interservice support agreements to reprogram funds for the educational mission. Logistics serves as the DoDEA liaison between the military service, Department of Defense agency, and other federal agencies. In this role, Logistics develops and implements policy, obtains resources, facilitates coordination, and resolves disagreements between DoDEA and supporting DoD agencies or military services.
Logistics provides data for programs involving common, interrelated activities and identifies any unique DoDEA support requirements. Logistics plans and directs the DoDEA material management program and Defense Property Accountability System (DPAS). It plans and directs the DoDEA program by implementing policies, procedures, and systems designed to efficiently acquire, maintain, account for, and dispose of material assets required to support the mission of DoDEA. Logistics provides guidance for the Student Meal Program along with purchasing and maintaining the kitchen equipment necessary to operate the program. Logistics provides student transportation services for all schools located within the Pacific East District. The transportation services include Daily Commute, Special Education, Curricular trips and Co-Curricular trips. Logistics also purchases and replaces furniture, fixtures and equipment for schools and offices.
The Pacific East has positively impacted school operations as evidence by:
Procuring 121 buses and drivers to transport students in a safe and effective manner through the Transportation Office
Managing the life cycle replacement of over 15,000 individual pieces of technology equipment and other items required to support school operations
Managing the furniture replacement program in 9 out of 20 schools over the last 5 years
Logistics completed the new furniture outfitting of Yokota High School.
Logistics completed the new furniture outfitting of four schools, Iwakuni Elementary School, MC Perry Elementary School, Iwakuni Middle School, MC Perry High School and continued the life cycle replacement of computers and integrated flat panels to increase the capability of technology in the schools.
A new bus contract was awarded to replace 121 older model buses with new buses. The buses are used on a daily basis to provide daily commute, special education, curricular travel and co curricular travel.
DoDEA put in place safety requirements and precautionary measures that follow CDC and DOD guidance on COVID-19. Logistics procured numerous items to facilitate social distancing and other mitigation efforts. Items secured to mitigate COVID-19 were facemasks, hand sanitizer, plexiglass dividers, disinfecting wipes and disinfecting spray.
Logistics outfitted four schools with new furniture, Edgren High School, Zama High School, Mendel Elementary School and Sullivans Elementary School.
For information regarding funding for the Logistics office, please review the Budget Office evidence package.