2000 Assessment of the Office of Naval Research's Marine Corps Science and Technology Program

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2000 Assessment of the Office of Naval Research's Marine Corps Science and Technology Program (2000)
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2000 Assessment of the Office of Naval Research’s Marine Corps Science and Technology Program

TABLE ES.2 Summary of Topics Recommended for New Investments

	Topic
Imperative for OMFTS
Maneuver	None, other than 6.1 research in mine detection phenomenology
Firepower	Concepts for weapons of controllable lethality
	New concepts for mortars, hand grenades, and rifle grenades
	Countersniper weapons
	Sensor systems to support counterbattery weapons
Logistics	Vulnerability of sea-based logistics train
	Shipment development/item location in shipboard environment
	Innovative approaches to water usage
Training and Education	General military training
	Proficiency training
	Team training
	Limitations of close-combat computer games
	A long-range research and technology plan for overall training and education that includes the rationale for selecting programs
Command and Control	Connectivity to joint and national sensors
	Mobile networking for Marine-specific problems
	Network security issues for MOUT and OMFTS
	Networking the AAAV
	Deception and other information operations
6.1	Investigation of other phenomena that could be incorporated into weapons of controllable lethality
	Other fundamental research that could lead to better devices and techniques for urban warfare
	Phenomena and devices for detecting mines, particularly remotely, and for mine countermeasures
	Techniques for gaining and disseminating situational awareness in a Marine Corps context to enable informed maneuver
	Materials that could reduce the logistics burden of OMFTS

dwarfs the Marine Corps program in funding level—will benefit the Corps. Enhancing awareness of requirements for fulfilling the Marine Corps mission can be accomplished through program-specific interactions and also by facilitation of interchanges between ONR program officers, ONR-supported researchers, and the Marine Corps customers for ONR’s technology. Code 353 also should reach out beyond the naval services to learn about other technology developers and to sensitize those developers to Marine Corps needs.

Overall, the shortcomings of the specific projects reviewed by the committee are not overly alarming, given the history of the program and the short time it has been managed by ONR. The committee hopes that ONR and Code 353 will treat the circumstances recounted at the beginning of this summary as an opportunity to formulate a new, technically exciting program that will help the Marine Corps achieve its goals for OMFTS.