Marine Corps Lndg Force Tech

Abstract

This Program Element (PE) addresses demand signals emphasized by the Commandant of the Marine Corps, the Chief of Naval Operations, and the Chief of Naval Research, as well as those pulled from dynamic engagement with stakeholders. Research efforts are carefully selected to ensure they have the potential to expand warfighting capabilities, inform operational concepts and requirements development, and advance state of the art technology and scientific knowledge. Current guidance also highlights the need to accelerate our pace of development and guide the approach to rapid experimentation, prototyping, and learning. As reflected in the Marine Corps Operating Concept, the current strategic guidance from the Commandant, Expeditionary Forces will conduct maneuver warfare in environments characterized by complex terrain, technology proliferation, information used as a weapon, a battle of signatures, and an increasingly contested maritime domain. Additionally, an emergent operation stressor is the contested urban environment which exemplifies the characterizations listed above. The urban environment is one of the most complex terrains with physical compartmentalization and canalization, additional physical dimensions (subterranean and multi-story structures), crowded conditions and associated threat obscuration, communications challenges, informational and human aspects, and proliferation of observation and fires technologies. This environment requires capabilities addressing all the activities within this PE and while it provides many challenges, unique opportunities are also presented and can further shape technology approaches. These future challenges and portents demand robust technologies for the Marine Corps, but the technology options are constrained. They must have a lightweight deployable character, and the ability to operate in austere conditions with little fixed infrastructure or support while retaining the agility and lethality of an integrated maneuver force. Technology must provide full spectrum capability against robust and complex peer and near-peer adversaries while meeting Size, Weight, Power, Post limitations, and information availability within Distributed, Intermittent and Limited environments. The approach within this PE encompasses ideas that support both revolutionary and evolutionary capabilities, and in this way considers and balances both "push" and "pull" aspects of technology projects. 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, 2020
Source ID
0602131M_2_1319_PB_2020
Change Summary Explanation
Cyber Pure Line Item redistribution realigned $6.273M from Project 3001 into Project 2958.
Service Agency Name
Navy

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Autonomy
  • Cyber
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amphibious Operations
  • Amphibious Vehicles
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Vision
  • Cyber Defense Techniques
  • Cyberattacks
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Logistics
  • Machine Learning
  • Military Science
  • Signal Processing
  • Situational Awareness
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Urban Areas
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

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