Supply support activity construction standard approved.The new Army construction standard for the multi-class supply support activity (SSA (Serial Storage Architecture) A fault tolerant peripheral interface from IBM that transfers data at 80 and 160 Mbytes/sec. SSA uses SCSI commands, allowing existing software to drive SSA peripherals, which are typically disk drives. ) was approved by the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management on 14 April. Development of the standard resulted from a coordinated effort of the Headquarters, Department of the Army, G-4; the Army Combined Arms Combined arms is an approach to warfare which seeks to integrate different arms of a military to achieve mutually complementary effects.Though the lower-echelon units of a combined arms team may be of homogeneous types, a balanced mixture of such units are combined into an Support Command at Fort Lee, Virginia; the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management; and the Army Corps of Engineers. The standard SSA is a 5-acre facility with 20,640 square feet of covered storage and another 13,125 square feet of outside bulk storage. It will hold approximately 37 deployable containers to support the receiving, turn-in, shipping, distribution, and storage of class II (clothing and individual equipment), IIIP (packaged petroleum, oils, and lubricants lubricants preparations for the lubrication of passages to reduce frictional injury, e.g. oily preparations, including petroleum jelly, lanolin or water-soluble preparations such as methyl cellulose. ), IV (construction and barrier materials), and IX (repair parts) supplies. The new Army SSA standard will apply to all Army components' military construction SSA projects effective in fiscal year 2012. |
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