MARINE CORPS GROUND COMBAT/SUPPORTING ARMS SYST

Abstract

Organic Precision Fires (OPF) is a Service Force Design priority and will provide multiple echelons of the Fleet Marine Force with an organic, loitering, beyond-line-of-sight precision strike capability. OPF will be employed at the tactical level to allow Marines to rapidly engage the enemy beyond the range of direct fire weapons while minimizing collateral damage and exposure to enemy direct and indirect fires. OPF has demonstrated through extensive war-gaming and simulation, combined with experience gained in real world operations, that it will significantly improve the organic lethality of infantry and reconnaissance formations. Multiple materiel solutions are required to provide the envisioned capabilities to the Fleet Marine Force. Three separate efforts will be used to deliver the initial increments of OPF capabilities, with additional future efforts planned. Initiated in FY 2021, Organic Precision Fires-Mounted (OPF-M) is the initial OPF effort. It will develop and integrate a government Command and Control (C2) system with an existing anti-armor/anti-personnel loitering munition and develop a vehicle mounted, universal multi-canister launch platform to be integrated onto multiple vehicles, starting with the Light Armored Vehicle (LAV) and Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV). Primary target sets for this system will be armored targets, dismounted personnel, and fortified emplacements/structures, with a range of approximately 25 km. It is a battalion/company level asset. Initiated in FY 2023, the OPF-Light (OPF-L) will procure an existing, light-weight loitering munition for use by dismounted elements. It provides a dismounted, lightweight, man-packable, loitering munition that extends the capability of the infantry squad/platoon to engage targets to the maximum range of organic Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) assets at that level. OPF-L will provide a counter-defilade, anti-personnel and anti-materiel capability. Primary target sets for this system will be enemy personnel, crew-served weapons, and Command and Control (C2) nodes. This will be principally a platoon/squad level asset. Initiating in FY 2024, the OPF-Dismounted (OPF-D) will procure an existing anti-armor/anti-personnel, loitering munition system, to include the vendor command and control system, capable of being launched from the ground and transported by an Ultra-Light Tactical Vehicle (ULTV) or man-packed by dismounted Marines. Primary target sets for this system will be armored targets, dismounted personnel, and fortified emplacements/structures, with a range of approximately 25 km. This will be principally a company/platoon level asset.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2024
• Source ID: 0604657M_5_1319_PB_2024
• Change Summary Explanation: The increase of $17.304M reflects the initial purchase OPF-L test assets, Limited User Evaluations for OPF-M, and program initiation of OPF-D.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• C4I
• Kinetic Weapons

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Armored Vehicles
• Collateral Damage
• Command And Control
• Command And Control Systems
• Control Systems
• Engineering
• Light Armored Vehicles
• Line Of Sight
• Manufacturing
• Marine Corps
• Precision Strike Capability
• Procurement
• Production
• Software Development
• Software Prototyping
• Test And Evaluation

Readers

• Military Science
• Munitions and Ordnance Engineering
• Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

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