MC Advanced Technology Demo

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. 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 relevant to operations. This Program Element (PE) funds Advanced Technology Development (ATD) that includes development of subsystems and components and efforts to integrate subsystems and components into system prototypes for field experiments and/or tests in a simulated environment. Efforts in this PE generally have Technology Readiness Levels TRL) of 4 (component and/or breadboard validation in laboratory environment.), 5 (component and/or breadboard validation in relevant environment.), or 6 (system/subsystem model or prototype demonstration in a relevant environment). 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, 2022
• Source ID: 0603640M_3_1319_PB_2022
• Change Summary Explanation: The funding increase in FY22 is due to enhanced and extended experimentation opportunities in the Pacific Area of Responsibility (AOR) for MCWL Fused Integrated Naval Network technology. As FINN continues to mature, we are seeing a higher level of demand from the fleet for FINN to play in fleet level exercises. The additional $2.749M will support those operational opportunities, as well as the refinement of Concepts of Operations, Concepts of Employment (CONEMPs (CONOPS), and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

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

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Aircrafts
• Amphibious Operations
• Autonomous Systems
• Control Systems
• Data Analysis
• Detectors
• Global Positioning Systems
• Military Science
• Position (Location)
• Situational Awareness
• Swarming Technologies
• Target Recognition
• Three Dimensional
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Unmanned Systems
• Unmanned Vehicles

Readers

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