Rapid Prototype Development, Marine Corps
Abstract
The Commandant of the Marine Corps (CMC) directed the formation of the Marine Corps Rapid Capabilities Office (MCRCO) to accelerate the identification, development and assessment of capabilities that appear to offer significant military utility. The MCRCO will seek emergent and disruptive technology to rapidly develop and deliver operational prototypes that increase Operating Forces' survivability and lethality, and that will inform requirement development and investment planning. Prototypes to be assessed will be at a Technology Readiness Level 7 or higher and can be either non developmental government off the shelf, non-developmental commercial off the shelf, or developmental items. MCRCO is not an acquisition program. MCRCO implements one-time buys of various capabilities for operational assessments and does not sustain nor provide enduring support beyond the operational assessment period. If a capability requires sustainment and enduring support it will transition to the traditional acquisition process. FY19 efforts include Autonomous Vehicles, Tactical Information Warfare, and Urban Engagement Systems. Autonomous Vehicles: effort will identify, prototype, and assess the use in a variety of combat and supporting use employments, vehicles capable of sensing their environment, while navigating and functioning independently without human conduction to take evasive or defensive action and avoid detection, tracking, targeting or attack, provide an alternative reconnoiter capability in non-permissive settings for the purpose of mapping and patrolling for the purpose of intensifying combat power and reducing risk to the force. Tactical Information Warfare: effort will identify, prototype, and assess various information systems that provide small unit ability to undermine local opposing force information quality, while ensuring friendly forces a timely, accurate, superior capability to automatically correlate relevant active and passive information from organic and non-organic sensors that will increase their combat effectiveness in this emerging war-fighting discipline. Urban Engagement Systems: effort will identify, prototype and assess small unit systems to provide them enhanced situational awareness to locate and track opposing forces in tall buildings, narrow alleys, sewage tunnels and subway systems in order to minimize friendly force exposure, reduce potential collateral damage, and offer increased force protection measures by means of amplified lethality, improved discrimination ability, and enhances survivability.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2019
- Source ID
- 0386_0604320M_4_1319_PB_2019
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