2000 Assessment of the Office of Naval Research's Marine Corps Science and Technology Program (2000) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
1 Introduction
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of the National Research Council to review ONR's Science and Technology (S&T) program that supports the Marine Corps.
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, a variant of the missile used in the Navy Aegis air defense system, to provide long-range fire support to maneuvering Marine Corps elements, thereby reducing some of the logistics burden of bringing armor and artillery pieces ashore. However, completion of the transition to OMFTS will require meeting many other challenges, including the provision of the following: · Complete and accurate situational awareness to permit light Marine forces to avoid concentrated enemy forces and mined transit lanes, · In-stride clearance of mines and obstacles to avoid giving the enemy time to mass defensive forces.
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Figure 1.1, adapted from a slide presented to the committee by Code 353, traces this funding history. In 1999, the Commander of the MCWL was assigned additional duties as Vice Chief of Naval Research, and management of the remaining portion of the AWT program was transferred to ONR's Code 353, its Expeditionary Warfare Operations Technology Division.
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Both the committee and Code 353 recognize that some of the Reacquisition and acquisition support work initiated under the MARCORSYSCOM AWT program lacks the technological aggressiveness that characterizes ONR programs and indeed may not even meet the strict definition of S&T, so that some S&T funding is being spent for work that is not really S&T. However, to the extent that they are necessary components of acquisitions that meet Marine Corps needs, these programs cannot be summarily terminated and must be transitioned in an orderly fashion to more appropriate budget categories.
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3The spiral process, also called evolutionary development of requirements and systems, is an innovative method for fielding a system quickly by using commercial and government off-the-shelf equipment, with maximum user involvement throughout the process (Naval Studies Board, National Research Council.
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Naval Studies Board, National Research Council.
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The original "Ship-to-Objective Maneuver" Marine Corps concept paper is available online at |
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This situation, combined with the lack of quantitative system analysis as discussed above in "Lack of Quantitative System Analyses" (page 11) , the relative inexperience of some Code 353 personnel in the management of S&T, and the consequent delegation of technical oversight to the system command warfare centers that execute the program, may have led to a portfolio of projects within which priorities and goals were set by the performers on the basis of their capabilities and desires rather than Marine Corps needs.
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