Global Air Transportation Execution System

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Global Air Transportation Execution System

The Air Mobility Command's aerial port operations and management information system designed to support automated cargo and passenger processing, the reporting of in-transit visibility data to the Global Transportation Network, and billing to Air Mobility Command's financial management directorate. Also called GATES. See also Air Mobility Command; Global Transportation Network.

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The MCB coordinated with the Air Force to combine data from the Single Mobility System and the Air Force's Global Air Transportation Execution System to forecast equipment coming into theater.

In-transit visibility systems for an expeditionary force: the 53rd Transportation Battalion (Movement Control) provides lessons learned from operating in-transit visibility systems in support of Operation United Assistance

The team is currently heavily involved in the development of the Global Air Transportation Execution System ocean movement application, the replacement to the World Wide Port System.

Strategic business office

Transportation Command's Port Management Automation project, the Worldwide Port System (WPS) used by the Army's Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command will migrate into the Global Air Transportation Execution System (GATES) used by the Air Force's Air Mobility Command.

TRANSCOM merging Army and Air Force port and terminal systems

In-transit information is data from the Global Transportation Network, which in turn gets its data from multiple sources such as Global Air Transportation Execution System, Cargo Movement Operations System, Global Decision Support System, Global Freight Management, and DAAS.

Using the Asset Visibility system as a tool enabler to answer the question: "where's my stuff?"

Historical mission planning files and the Global Air Transportation Execution System that is used to track mission data could provide some information about operational factors that affect mission payloads, but limitations associated with these data sources do not allow officials to determine whether DOD used aircraft capacity as efficiently as possible.

Defense Transportation: Air Mobility Command Needs to Collect and Analyze Better Data to Assess Aircraft Utilization

The new solution allows information in DLA's Distribution Standard System (DSS) to interface with the Global Air Transportation Execution System (GATES), improving the information flow between CCPs and aerial ports of embarkation (APOEs).

Ustranscom press release (Aug. 5, 2005): AMC and DLA establish new information interface to improve distribution processes