2003 Assessment of the Office of Naval Research's Marine Corps Science and Technology Program (2004) / Chapter Skim
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The committee' s recommendations for the more than 80 individual projects it reviewed are presented in Chapters 2, 3, and 4. 1 The other component of the Littoral Combat and Power Projection FNC is focused on expeditionary logistics and is administered by ONR's Industrial and Corporate Programs Department (Code 36~.
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Many of the individual projects in the MCS&T program pursue worthwhile objectives; however, their relationship to key Marine Corps warfighting concepts Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare (EMW) 5 and its components, Operational Maneuver From the Sea (OMFTS)
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By understanding the state of the art of the relevant technologies, such people are able to help identify a series of specific projects that support the needs expressed by users. 8Thomas O'Leary, Director, Expeditionary Warfare Operations Technology Division, Office of Naval Research, "ONR's Marine Corps Science and Technology Program: The Context," slide 11, presentation to the committee on May 13, 2003.
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To complicate matters further, Code 353 has planned to allocate approximately $15 million annually through FY07 to non-FNC 6.3 projects; this effort was a source of concern to the committee since it seems to be FNC-like in character and thus confounds the division of mission between the LC-FNC and the Core Thrusts elements of the MCS&T program. 10One example is the tactical unmanned ground vehicle 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.
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Recommendation. Code 353 should ensure that the MCS&T program's Core Thrusts and Basic Research components support the mission of discovery and invention, that is, exploration aimed at the long-term development of base-level technologies that could support future FNC and Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory program initiatives.
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Following the establishment of the LC-FNC, the Department of the Navy's Science and Technology Corporate Board,~7 which approves and prioritizes all FNCs, also established Expeditionary Logistics (ExLog) as a separate component of the Littoral Combat and Power Projection FNC to address critical logistical capability gaps, including deployment from and reconstitution of a sea base, for naval forces engaged in expeditionary operations.
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In addition, presenters rarely mentioned Marine Corps needs or capability shortfalls, and when they did, the links appeared ad hoc rather than the result of a planned process. The apparent lack of an overall S&T investment strategy for the Core Thrusts concerns the committee.
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expand the LC-FNC's mission to include Marine Corps capability needs for all of Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare and (2) provide a means for strongly coupling the integrated product teams for the Littoral Combat and the Expeditionary Logistics components of the Littoral Combat and Power Projection FNC.
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· Code 353 should collaborate with DARPA; the Army; Naval Sea Systems Command, PMS-210; Coastal Systems Station (CSS) Panama City; Naval Air Systems Command, PMA-263; and the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, the Organic Mine Countermeasures FNC, and the other ONR codes to address mine countermeasures at the Naval Enterprise level with a view beyond the 3-year horizon that seems to pervade current MCM efforts.
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Code 353 should also solicit the active participation of senior Marine Corps leadership in the S&T development process for training and education to ensure that innovative ideas and systems can be rapidly readied for testing by operational forces. Code 353 should continue to invest its research resources in C4ISR areas that are tightly coupled to the Marine Corps operational concepts of Ship-to-Objective Maneuver and Operational Maneuver From the Sea.
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Marine Corps personnel could assist in strategic planning for 6.1 work by helping to steer it not into projects, but rather into technology areas likely to support long-term combat needs. The current Basic Research focus areas communications, lightweight power sources, information efficiency, landmine detection, human sensory enhancement, enhanced lethality, laser eye protection, sensing, and corrosion prevention could be strengthened by reorganizing along the lines suggested by the committee in Table ES.3.
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Sensors for damage assessment (post-attack) Sensors that work in an urban environment Mine detection: fundamental physical mechanisms and phenomenology in surf and on land Unmanned surveillance/reconnaissance vehicles Non-communications use of ultrawideband radar Materials and structures Sensing materials Corrosion prevention Non-lethal weapons Psychological profiling to identify potential terrorists Human sensory enhancement Shallow-water oceanography: bottom structure in the surf zone, bottom interactions, and surf and current characteristics Effects on warfare of hostile or unusual climates (weather)
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Table ES.3 presents the committee's suggestions for reorganizing the focus areas in the Basic Research part of the MCS&T program and lists sample topics in each area. The committee's recommendations for the more than 80 individual projects it reviewed are presented in Chapters 2 through 4.
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