MC Advanced Technology Demo

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, Cost 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 PE matures technologies emerging from PE 0602131M-Marine Corps Landing Force Technology to develop concept prototypes and initial experimentation to confirm feasibility in an environment relavent to operations. 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, 2020
• Source ID: 0603640M_3_1319_PB_2020
• Change Summary Explanation: Major program adjustment is associated with a one-time $15M increase in FY20 in order to enhance Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities. Will initiate efforts to receive, transmit, and fuse joint asset specialized sensor information to communications nodes afloat and ashore via an aerial gateway. Additional $10M in FY20 and subsequent across the FYDP to fund Marine Corps Science and Technology in-line with Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) steady-state guidance. Efforts are justified in Project 2297.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

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

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Aircrafts
• Amphibious Operations
• Artificial Intelligence
• Autonomous Systems
• Autonomous Weapons
• Control Systems
• Cyber Warfare
• Military Science
• Precision-Guided Munitions
• Situational Awareness
• Software Development
• Three Dimensional
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Unmanned Ground Systems
• Unmanned Ground Vehicles
• Unmanned Systems

Readers

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