Oshkosh Defense, an Oshkosh Corporation [NYSE: OSK] company, and Marine Depot Maintenance Command (MDMC) successfully demonstrated the ability to securely manufacture and deliver approved, mission-critical replacement parts at the point of need during Exercise Valiant Shield 2026, showcasing a new approach to sustainment that reduces dependence on vulnerable supply lines and helps keep tactical vehicles mission ready. As military operations become increasingly distributed across the Indo-Pacific and other contested environments, the ability to rapidly produce approved replacement parts closer to where they are needed is becoming a critical readiness advantage. Rather than waiting for parts to move through lengthy and potentially contested logistics networks, digital manufacturing enables forces to restore equipment faster, reduce vehicle downtime, and sustain operations when traditional supply chains are challenged.
“Future conflicts will demand new approaches to sustainment, particularly in environments where traditional logistics networks may be constrained or contested,” said Pat Williams, Chief Programs Officer, Oshkosh Defense. “Secure digital manufacturing gives maintainers the ability to produce approved replacement parts closer to the point of need, reducing maintenance delays, improving operational resilience, and helping keep critical vehicles in the fight.” By working alongside MDMC and partners including MadeHere, Oshkosh is helping advance a more resilient sustainment model for the U.S. Marine Corps.
During Valiant Shield 2026, Oshkosh Defense supported MDMC and authorized manufacturer MadeHere in securely manufacturing an approved LVSR replacement part in Japan using the AdvMFG Hub Digital Sustainment Platform (DSP), a secure repository of approved digital part files that enables authorized users to manufacture replacement parts while allowing Oshkosh Defense to retain ownership of its intellectual property. The exercise also included production of the same approved replacement part at MDMC in Albany, Georgia, demonstrating how a common, secure digital manufacturing ecosystem can produce identical, configuration-controlled components across geographically dispersed locations.
Producing approved replacement parts at the point of need reduces reliance on long-distance transportation, shortens repair timelines, and increases operational resilience by enabling maintainers to restore vehicles to service without waiting for conventional supply chains. The demonstration highlights how secure, configuration-controlled digital manufacturing enables rapid production of mission-critical, obsolete, or long-lead replacement parts while maintaining strict quality standards and intellectual property protection. By producing approved replacement parts at or near the point of need, the Marine Corps can reduce equipment downtime, improve operational readiness, strengthen supply chain resilience, and keep critical assets mission-ready in distributed and contested environments.
Oshkosh Defense, an Oshkosh Corporation business [NYSE: OSK], delivers adaptable, connected, and survivable systems critical to the modernization and readiness of the U.S. and its allied forces. As a trusted mobility integrator, Oshkosh brings advanced vehicles, intelligent systems, and mission-critical technologies together into unified solutions built for evolving operational demands. Combining defense expertise with commercial scale, Oshkosh accelerates innovation from development through deployment. And because the mission does not end at fielding, Oshkosh provides global sustainment, lifecycle support, and aftermarket solutions that keep fleets ready while advancing the future of defense mobility. Oshkosh Corporation, formerly Oshkosh Truck, is an American industrial company that designs and builds specialty trucks, military vehicles, truck bodies, airport fire apparatus, and access equipment. The corporation also owns Pierce Manufacturing, a fire apparatus manufacturer in Appleton, Wisconsin, and JLG Industries, a manufacturer of lift equipment, including aerial lifts, boom lifts, scissor lifts, telehandlers and low-level access lifts. Based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, the company employs approximately 15,000 people around the world at 130 facilities in 24 countries. It is organized in four primary business groups: access equipment, defense, fire and emergency, and commercial.
