Marine Corps IT

Abstract

Marine Corps Recruiting Information Support System (MCRISS) is an enterprise level system to automate administrative procedures for the recruiting station operations. This customized automated System, centered on procedures in the Guidebook for Recruiters, Volume I, dramatically improves efficiency and effectiveness in Marine Corps recruiting. Furthermore, Military Entrance Processing Command requires Marine Corps recruiting to provide information in electronic format only. MCRISS is the Marine Corps Recruiting Command's program to manage applicant processing from commitment to accession/commission into the Marine Corps and Marine Corps Reserve. This enterprise approach allows for efficient sharing of information about potential recruits and recruiter screening efforts, yielding a more cost effective process. The current system requires modernization of the systematic recruiting components to provide efficiency for the Recruiting force from the Headquarters element down to the Recruiter, and requires numerous updates in order to become fully compliant with Cyber Security and Center for Naval Analysis (CNA) policies and mandates to protect PII/PHI data captured and stored in the system. The Modernization effort will involve a competitive evaluation of several prototype systems, leading to a selection of a viable platform and the complete replacement of the current MCRISS system with modern and secure technology. Strategic Management Decision Support (SMDS): The SMDS program will provide a set of materiel and non-materiel solutions to facilitate data-driven and analytically sound decision support for Marine Corps strategic-level business processes, in order to optimize force development outcomes and improve institutional readiness. Supported business processes include global force management, readiness assessment, war gaming, planning, programming, budgeting, and capability solution development. SMDS will provide Marine Corps senior leaders, across all functional areas, adequate tools and data to make force development and readiness decisions with sufficient responsiveness to meet force management and planning, programming, budgeting, and execution (PPBE) process timelines. SMDS will enable Marine Corps data to be readily available, visible, accessible, and integrate multiple classification domains through a DISA Cross Domain Enterprise Solution. SMDS will provide enterprise data management with analytics and tools to provide enterprise wide visualization, reporting, and data mining of Marine Corps data that is found on local and enterprise level Marine Corps systems. SMDS will provide the Marine Corps sufficient, consistent, relevant, and high-quality data to support strategic management processes and decisions through use of Joint DoD and Marine Corps systems. Command Individual Risk and Resiliency Assessment System (CIRRAS), operationally deployed in September 2020, enables the United States Marine Corps (USMC) commanding officers and senior enlisted advisors to make more informed and timely decisions on Force Preservation (FP) risk assessments, based on identifying and tracking individual Service Member (SM) behaviors associated with increased risk or resiliency as defined by the Marine Corps "Six Fs" (Fidelity, Fighter, Fitness, Family, Finances, and Future). CIRRAS is the Marine Corps Force Preservation Council (FPC) enterprise-wide system to manage individual SM FP risk by providing a consistent approach and a standardized methodology to support protective factors and mitigate adverse outcomes. Current efforts are to deploy additional FP functionality to increase the ability to perform, inform, and record behavioral Service Member risk assessment within the Marine Corps with the development of Version 1.1. The enhanced CIRRAS Version 1.1 capabilities being developed will automate resiliency scores, send automated alerts to leadership of "at risk" personnel, and implement additional system interfaces that will provide further key FP indicator data to assist in prevention of SM suicide. CIRRAS Version 1.1 is slated to deploy in Q4 FY 2023. Development of CIRRAS Version 2.0 will begin in FY 2024 and provide enhanced capabilities including automating e-forms, implementing a greater number of interfaces, and incorporating machine learning data analytic tools to achieve cross-platform data mining and fluid reporting flexibility to support Marine Corps CIRRAS end user communities. Manpower Operations Systems (MOS), as a key component of the Human Resources Development Processes (HRDP), is an enterprise-wide human resource family of capabilities for the modernization of platforms and applications to support the future force and transform USMC human resources from inventory-based to talent-based management. The objective is to provide a device agnostic, data driven, and dynamic human resources IT solutions that meet the evolving needs of the Marine Corps' talent-based work force. These efforts are critical to delivering human resource solutions that manage and enable our exceptionally talented workforce to increase match fit, job satisfaction, and career longevity. Marine Corps service priorities include Talent Marketplace/Management, Retention & Recruiting, Manpower Management/Assignments, Modeling & Analytics and Performance Evaluation. The Marine Corps intends to take advantage of modern technology such as cloud native and mobile solutions, artificial intelligence and machine learning, automation, and modern cyber security and service delivery practices to provide the capability necessary to modernize and support the future force. Focus areas include modernized officer and enlisted personnel models to better balance retention and recruiting; application of data analytics across the recruiting and retention enterprise; improved assignment of enlisted recruits to military occupational specialties; leveraging lessons learned by the Army, Navy, and Air Force to implement a web-based talent marketplace to increase agency for Marines and Commands in the assignments process. The Marine Corps will streamline, digitize and automate human capital business processes to reduce administrative overhead and human errors thereby maximizing time for leaders and Marines to focus on warfighting. The Total Force Structure Management System (TFSMS) supports combat development activities associated with Expeditionary Force Development System (EFDS) and underpins the Total Force Structure process. TFSMS integrates manning, equipping, organizing and training lifecycle processes and delivers authoritative Marine Corps force structure data to comply with Global Force Management (GFM) Data Strategy. It enables collaborative decision making through its ability to model force structure changes in response to strategic planning needs and the delivery of approved force structure data changes through net centric-compliant web services. TFSMS delivers force structure data to over thirty Marine Corps and Joint data systems to support capabilities such as workforce management (e.g., manpower modeling, recruiting, training), principal end item requirements (e.g., procurement authorizations, transportation planning), installation planning (e.g., test range planning) and unit readiness reporting. Modernization of TFSMS is required to develop and institute modern data sharing standards, increase computing performance, and improve the modeling capability with machine learning.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2025
• Source ID: 2906_0605013M_5_1319_PB_2025

Tags

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
• Naval Personnel Management

Technology Areas

• AI & ML
• AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
• Cyber
• Microelectronics