2003 Assessment of the Office of Naval Research's Marine Corps Science and Technology Program (2004) / Chapter Skim
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1 Marine Corps S&T Program as a Whole
1 Marine Corps S&T Program as a Whole
Pages 14-27
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The next three chapters discuss each of the three parts of ONR Code 353's MCS&T program the LC-FNC, Core Thrusts, and Basic Research in order of program size beginning with the largest. Each chapter begins with a discussion of research areas followed by a detailed discussion of the projects assessed.
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Enabling Capability 3, MAGTF Maneuver in the Littorals Enabling Capability 4, Command and Control (C2) Core Thrusts Maneuver Firepower Mine Countermeasures Support the development of naval Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare (EMW)
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, as well as by the capabilities, optimism, and evident motivation of the presenters. 2These estimates are based on the FY03 budget and include business operation costs, congressionally directed projects, and mandated projects.
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is also Vice Chief of Naval Research, which allows high-level collaboration across Marine Corps development and research interests and Marine Corps influence and leveraging of broad ONR initiatives. In addition, Marine Corps officers are regularly assigned to the MCS&T program office and are consciously embedded throughout ONR.
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Operational synergy between the Marine Corps and the Navy appears to have grown since establishment of the Naval Operating Concept (see Box 1.1~. The Naval Operating Concept includes the critical naval concepts of Sea Basing, Sea Shield, Sea Strike, and FORCEnet and their integration with the Marine Corps capstone concept EMW and its constituent operational concepts, OMFTS and STOM, thus providing a vision toward which the two Services can plan to develop a coherent program, ranging from basic research through advanced technology development, in order to support the Navy/Marine Corps team.
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In addition, the LC-FNC investment strategy formulation process has resulted in a useful means for connecting Code 353 with the Marine Corps user community. To identify and prioritize current STOM capability shortfalls, Code 353 included a combination of expert panels (users, technologists, and so on)
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SOURCE: Thomas O'Leary, Director, Expeditionary Warfare Operations Technology Division, Office of Naval Research, "ONR's Marine Corps Science and Technology Program: The Context," slide 10, presentation to the committee on May 13, 2003. NOTE: Acronyms are defined in Appendix C
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Such people are often found among S&T workers who have undertaken management responsibilities that have brought them into intimate contact with the user community. To improve the planning process, it is recommended that following a review of capability gaps by the panel of technologists, ONR replace the BAA solicitations and TIG analysis with a team of users/ technologists who will consider user concerns, as expressed in the list of critical shortfalls identified at the front part of the process.
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· Avoid relying solely on Broad Agency Announcement solicitations and reorganization of the responses; instead, use a "translation" team of bilingual people skilled in understanding and interpreting the users' concerns and needs as the basis for identifying a series of specific projects representing a final S&T investment strategy. · Ensure that the final review of the resulting S&T investment strategy is done by another independent group of appropriately bilingual (user/technologist)
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Reliability, manufacturability, 13One example is the tactical unmanned ground vehicles project, which was briefed to the committee as part of Code 353's Core Thrusts yet is also listed on other ONR documents as a project supported through ONR's Autonomous Operations FNC. 14Thomas O'Leary, Director, Expeditionary Warfare Operations Technology Division, Office of Naval Research, "ONR's Marine Corps Science and Technology Program: The Context," slide 14, presentation to the committee on May 13, 2003.
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2002. Using the Technology Readiness Levels Scale to Support Technology Management in the DOD's ATD/STO Environments, Special Report, CMU/SEI-2002-SR-027, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa., September.
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the committee ~ , ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ is concerned that the Core Thrusts component continues to support transition-focused, short-timehorizon technology development projects. In the 2000 review, a number of high-level technical deficiencies in the overall MCS&T program were identified, including the following: · A "lack of quantitative systems analyses" and of a strong two-way relationship with MCCDC (p.
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