Soldier/Marine Enhancement
Abstract
Marine Expeditionary Rifle Squad (MERS) mission is to manage the infantry squad, "squad as a system", by conducting integration, systems engineering, human factors, and modernization efforts across all the products that are worn, carried, and consumed by the rifle squad. The Marine Corps' Force Design reorganizes personnel and equipment across all infantry battalions injecting new capabilities in order to combat a near peer competitor and includes experimentation with Fleet Marine Force units from 2021 to 2023. Experimentation will require an increased level of effort to influence integration and synergy of capabilities. Physical integration, capability analysis, modeling and simulation, ergonomics, and usability assessments are facilitated by this program in working with the various program managers and project officers in the development of their unique items that contribute to the squads overall capabilities. MERS operates and manages the Gruntworks Squad Integration Facility in order to meet mission requirements to support integration and assessments of equipment. MERS is engaging industry and academia in search of innovative technologies that can meet Force Design infantry capabilities via a Partnership Intermediary Agreement. Weight, volume, and power management are fundamental considerations in the insertion or modernization of any squad equipment. MERS works with Joint and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) soldier modernization programs to harvest new technologies to increase the capability of the rifle squad. The program also ensures the integration of the rifle squad into the various mobility platforms currently in service and being developed to ensure a Marine and his equipment can operate effectively. The Marine Corps anthropometry survey was delayed in FY 2020 due to COVID and anticipate completion in FY 2022. This program is essential to ensure the combined synergistic equipment effects enhance the war-fighting functions of the Marine rifle squad towards the strategic Marine Corps war fighting vision for the future.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2022
- Source ID
- 2086_0206623M_7_1319_PB_2022
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