Marine Corps Comms Systems

Abstract

This program element provides funding to develop the command and control (C2) support and information infrastructures for the Fleet Marine Force and supporting establishment. Doctrinally, the C2 support system and the information infrastructure form two parts of a triad of capabilities which permits command and control systems to be transformed into a complete operating system. The third element of the triad is command and control organization and is not covered in this program element. USMC command and control is divided into seven functional areas and one supporting functional area as follows: intelligence C2, fire support C2, air operations C2, radio systems C2, combat service support C2, warfare C2, radar systems C2, and C2 support (information processing and communications). Within this program element, subprojects have been grouped by C2 functional area for more efficient planning. Air defense weapons systems have been added to facilitate planning and a separate project is used for systems assigned to the supporting establishment. Subprojects which support the Commander's decision processes have been collected into the Command Post Systems project since these systems must work in close cooperation to ensure effective C2 of Marine Air Ground Task Forces.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2020
• Source ID: 0206313M_7_1319_PB_2020
• Change Summary Explanation: The FY 2020 funding request was reduced by $4.00M to account for the availability of prior year execution balances. The net decrease of $30.496M between FY19 and FY20 is primarily due to the following major program adjustments within the PE: 1) Expeditionary Indirect Fire Gen Supt Weapon Sys funding increase of $10.067M from FY19 to FY20 to support continued development, design, test, and integration of emerging capabilities across the Handheld Command and Control (H2C2) Family of Systems (FoS). 2) Tactical Radio Systems decrease of $9.940M from FY19 to FY20 reflects transition of NOTM variants from initial design, development, and prototyping to technology refresh cycles. Decrease also reflects completion of VSAT-M Refresh test asset procurement and 80% of testing events as well as the completion of Terrestrial Wideband Transmission System (TWTS) engineering support. 3) Air Defense Weapons System decrease of $25.200M from FY19 to FY20 (Base and OCO), Ground Based Air Defense (GBAD) Increment I, also known as Marine Integrated Air Defense System (MADIS), is due to the migration from research and development to production efforts following Milestone C decision in 1QFY20. 4) Air Operation Command and Control (C2) System funding decrease of $3.070M from FY19 to FY20 reflects reduction in Theater Battle Management Core System (TBMCS) software development support requirements. 5) Radar Systems decrease of $2.727M from FY19 to FY20 reflects USMC decision to defer all modernization except the IFF Mode 5/S level 1 upgrade and upgrades specifically to prevent system obsolescence such as the Digital Receive Exciter efforts.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Autonomy
• C4I
• Cyber
• Electronic Warfare
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Application Software
• Climate Change Adaptation
• Command And Control
• Command And Control Systems
• Computer Programming
• Computer Programs
• Computers
• Digital Communications
• Information Systems
• Military Science
• Mobile Devices
• National Security
• Radio Equipment
• Software Development
• Surface To Air Missiles
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

• Engineering

Readers

• Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
• Technical Research and Report Writing.
• Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control