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 Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO), that seeks to initially operate below the threshold of armed conflict by winning the reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance competition in facilitating deterrence by detection. The USMC also requires combat credible capabilities that employ mobile, low-signature, operationally relevant, and relatively easy to maintain and sustain naval expeditionary forces from a series of austere, temporary locations ashore or inshore within a contested or potentially contested maritime area in order to conduct sea denial, support sea control, or enable fleet sustainment. 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 command and control systems that work within degraded, disconnected, intermittent and limited environments with reduced threat detectability. 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 utility and suitability 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, 2025
• Source ID: 0603640M_3_1319_PB_2025
• Change Summary Explanation: Funding: The decrease in FY 2025 is due to higher DON priorities, Technical: N/A Schedule: N/A
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Readers

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

Technology Areas

• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control