From the Flight Line to the leading the Front Office: Maj. Gen King on Logistics, Innovation, and the Future fight

From the Flight Line to the leading the Front Office: Maj. Gen King on Logistics, Innovation, and the Future fight

Released Thursday, 17th July 2025
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From the Flight Line to the leading the Front Office: Maj. Gen King on Logistics, Innovation, and the Future fight

From the Flight Line to the leading the Front Office: Maj. Gen King on Logistics, Innovation, and the Future fight

From the Flight Line to the leading the Front Office: Maj. Gen King on Logistics, Innovation, and the Future fight

From the Flight Line to the leading the Front Office: Maj. Gen King on Logistics, Innovation, and the Future fight

Thursday, 17th July 2025
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In this episode of the Tesseract Podcast, we sat down with Major General Jeffrey R. King, Director of Logistic for the U.S. Air Force, as he reflect on 32 years of service, this journey took him from the flight line to the pentagon, serving and leading at all sort of positions. Maj. Gen King shares his early roots as an aircraft maintenance, his passion for innovation, and why he believe logistics is the true operational level of warfare. 

We unpack hard truths about the fragmentation of our innovation ecosystem, the need for data-driven decisions, and how continuous process improvement and Theory of Constraints can fuel mission readiness. He also lay out a compelling call to action to reimagine sustainment, modernize support equipement, and empower logistics professional to lead the charge in the next conflict.  

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