MC Advanced Technology Demo

Abstract

The United States 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 (DMO), Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO), Littoral Operations in Contested Environments (LOCE), Joint Warfighting Concepts, Stand-In Forces, and Reconnaissance / Counter-Reconnaissance. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) combines knowledge of the naval mission with researchers to select and explore solutions critical to expeditionary warfighting needs. It has become clear the joint force needs a capability that operates persistently and with maximum organic mobility and dispersion to compete and deter in the contact and blunt layers. This Program Element (PE) supports investments in critically needed capabilities as outlined in Force Design 2030, to operate below the threshold of armed conflict by winning the reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance competition in facilitating deterrence by detection. 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 Program Element (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 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 (TRLs) 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, 2024
• Source ID: 0603640M_3_1319_PB_2024
• Change Summary Explanation: Funding: All funding increases support Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory (MCWL) / Futures Directorate (FD) experimentation efforts: - Increase of $30M to provide a third hull for use in Stern Landing Vessel (SLV) program; improving resilience, dispersion, and the ability to operate in complex archipelagoes and contested littorals. - Increase of $21M to investigate the use of Ancillary Surface Connectors (ASC) to improve the sustainment of the future naval expeditionary force. - Increase of $2.88M to establish the MCWL Information Fusion Center (IFC); providing a consolidated and collaborative environment, at all classification levels, to augment overall Marine Corps effectiveness as well as MCWL's experimentation objectives. Technical: No significant change. Schedule: No significant change.
• 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 (Alumni COI)
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Kinetic Weapons
• Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Amphibious Operations
• Artillery
• Cognitive Systems Engineering
• Data Analysis
• Military Applications
• Military Science
• Mobile Devices
• Situational Awareness
• Software Development
• Target Recognition
• Three Dimensional
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Unmanned Ground Vehicles
• Unmanned Systems
• Unmanned Vehicles
• Warfare

Readers

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