Where Leaders Unite to Advance Readiness
A Podcast About Turning Logistics Insight into Mission Outcomes
About the podcast
The Logistics Lens is a defense logistics podcast focused on readiness, sustainment, and supply chain resilience. Each episode features DoD and industry leaders sharing real-world lessons on lifecycle management, predictive maintenance, and digital sustainment strategies that drive mission outcomes.
Your host… Kevin Sampels
After more than three decades in Air Force logistics and maintenance, he has seen how critical logistics is to mission success and how often policy and practice fail to align. That experience inspired him to create The Logistics Lens, a space for open, solutions-driven dialogue between government, industry, and academia. The podcast focuses on sharing lessons learned, spotlighting innovation, and addressing the challenges that shape readiness and sustainment. His goal is simple: to connect the people and ideas that move logistics forward, turning insight into real mission outcomes.
Why we exist
Strengthen Readiness
We spotlight data-driven sustainment strategies, analytics, and evidence-based practices that boost system availability and reduce lifecycle costs. Our focus is on turning complexity into clarity for logistics leaders.
Unite Stakeholders
We bring together voices from the Department of War, industry innovators, and academic research in one forum. The goal is collaboration, shared learning, and practical cross-sector insight.
Turn Ideas into Action
We move beyond discussion to help translate emerging prototypes and innovations into repeatable playbooks that organizations can apply today to improve readiness and outcomes.