Marine Corps Lndg Force Tech

Abstract

The efforts described in this Program Element(PE)are based on investment directions as defined in the Naval Science and Technology (S&T) Strategic Plan approved by the S&T Corporate Board (20 Jan 2015). This strategy is based on needs and capabilities from Navy and Marine Corps guidance and input from the Naval Research Enterprise (NRE) stakeholders (including the Naval enterprises, the combatant commands, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), and Headquarters Marine Corps) to include specific Marine Corps objectives defined by the USMC S&T Strategic Plan. It provides the vision and key objectives for the essential science and technology efforts that will enable the continued supremacy of U.S. Naval forces in the 21st century. The Strategy focuses and aligns Naval S&T with Naval missions and future capability needs that address the complex challenges presented by both rising peer competitors and irregular/asymmetric warfare. Expeditionary Force 21 (EF 21) is the Marine Corps' foundational Capstone Operating Concept that provides vision and context for developing future operating and functional concepts that in turn guide capability development and this PE. Using future concepts, science and technology (S&T) performers can focus less technologically mature applied research in areas where end state capabilities are not fully defined and on S&T opportunities where feasibility is not fully developed or known but is also potentially game changing. EF 21 aligns with national level strategic guidance including the National Security Strategy (NSS), National Military Strategy (NMS), Defense Strategic Guidance (DSG), Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) and with Naval strategy in the Department of the Navy's Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower. Expeditionary Force 21 describes a future Marine Corps ground force that will have cornerstone characteristics of being naval, expeditionary, agile, and lethal. This force will face security environments and threats driven by Complex Terrain (to include informational and human aspects), Technology Proliferation (including precision weapons), Information used as a Weapon, Battles of Electromagnetic (EM) Spectrum Signatures, and Increasingly Contested Maritime Domains. The future Marine Corps will be designed to meet those future security environments but needed force characteristics also impose constraints and challenges on future operating concepts and capabilities. EF 21 provides the context in which promising and innovative applied research is explored to determine scientific feasibility of potential solutions and opportunities to enhance, change, or invent future concepts with S&T. For example within the above naval force characteristics, amphibious operations against EM signature aware threats with advanced weapons systems will be part of future Marine operating concepts. Promising science opportunities in autonomy may enable new concepts and capabilities in agility, lethality, and signature management that have not even been defined. The EF 21 context brings constraints and challenges that stimulate unique science and technology (S&T) requirements and opportunities that define this PE. S&T projects in this PE explore the feasibility of applied research to meet broad Marine Corps conceptual requirements within the unique constraints described above in the warfighting functional areas of: Command, Control, Communications, Computers (C4); Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR); maneuver and mobility; force protection; logistics and sustainment; human performance, training and education, firepower, and Expeditionary Cyber. This PE funds applied research, future technology assessment and road mapping, future technology concepts, and less technologically mature projects within the Future Naval Capability (FNC) process as means to inform, enhance, and invent future concepts and capabilities with new S&T. Due to the number of efforts in this PE, the programs described herein are representative of the work included in this PE.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2018
Source ID
0602131M_2_1319_PB_2018
Change Summary Explanation
Technical: Not Applicable. Schedule: Not Applicable.
Service Agency Name
Navy

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Anti-Tank Missiles
  • Artillery Ammunition
  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • Collision Avoidance
  • Command And Control
  • Energy Harvesting
  • Guidance
  • Machine Learning
  • Materials Science
  • Military Science
  • Navigation
  • Situational Awareness
  • Supply Chain
  • Unmanned Ground Systems
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Urban Areas
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

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

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