Marine Corps Lndg Force Tech

Abstract

The U.S. Navy/Marine Corps team is the most potent naval fighting force in the world. Fundamental to their success are the technologies necessary for effective distributed maritime operations. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) combines knowledge of the naval mission with researchers to select and explore solutions critical to expeditionary warfighting needs. This Program Element (PE) addresses requirements outlined in the Marine Corps Operating Concept, which calls for Expeditionary Forces to conduct maneuver warfare in challenging, contested maritime environments characterized by complex terrain, technology proliferation, information and electronic warfare. 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. This Program Element (PE) funds Applied Research, which is the systematic study to understand the means to meet a recognized and specific need. Most of the work in this PE can be classified between Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 2 (technology concept and/or application formulation) and TRL 4 (component and/or breadboard validation in laboratory environments). Due to the number of efforts in this PE, the programs described herein are representative of the work included in this PE.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2021
• Source ID: 0602131M_2_1319_PB_2021
• Change Summary Explanation: Funding: No change from FY 2020 President's Budget request to FY 2021 President's Budget request Technical: no significant change Schedule: no significant change
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Advanced Electronics
• Autonomy
• C4I
• 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 Vehicles
• Data Science
• Electronic Warfare
• Landing Forces
• Logistics
• Machine Learning
• Materials
• Military Science
• Signal Processing
• Situational Awareness
• Software Development
• Thermal Spraying
• Unmanned Systems
• Warfare

Readers

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

Technology Areas

• Microelectronics