MC Advanced Technology Demo

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 January 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 United States Marine Corps (USMC) S&T Strategic Plan. It provides the vision and key objectives for the essential S&T efforts that will enable the continued supremacy of United States 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 guides capability development, wargaming, and experimentation and this PE. EF 21 aligns with national 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. EF 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 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 required capabilities. An example would be a need to conduct Information Warfare but with systems constrained by size, weight, and power considerations necessary for a naval and expeditionary force. Another example is Marine firepower requirements to be lethal against technologically comparable threat systems but Marine capabilities and weapons constrained by deployment and sustainment challenges of naval shipping and a distributed expeditionary force. These capability constraints and challenges in turn drive unique S&T requirements that define this PE. S&T projects in this PE enable future force capabilities through advanced technology development to meet Marine needs 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 advanced technology development, technology demonstrations, assessment of emerging technologies, experimentation in warfighting concepts, and the Future Naval Capability (FNC) process as means to develop unique Marine future 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.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2018
• Source ID: 0603640M_3_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
• Biomedical
• C4I
• Cyber
• Electronic Warfare
• Energy and Power Technologies
• Engineered Resilient Systems
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Aircrafts
• Anti-Tank Missiles
• Asymmetric Warfare
• Autonomous Systems
• Collision Avoidance
• Command And Control
• Control Systems
• Detection
• Electronic Warfare
• Global Positioning Systems
• Guidance
• Military Science
• Situational Awareness
• Supply Chain
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Unmanned Systems
• 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