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Executive Summary
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... . Given these changes, it is not surprising that some of the projects inherited recently by ONR, and assessed by the Committee for the Review of ONR's Marine Corps Science and Technology Program under the auspices of the Naval Studies Board of the National Research Council, differed from the customary ONR project and were more akin to preacquisition or acquisition support than to S&T.
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... The committee recommends that ONR management demonstrate its commitment to supporting this interaction by doing the following: · Providing additional staff to Code 353 so that program officers can interact effectively with their ONR peers and Code 353 can participate more forcefully in the management of the Marine Corps S&T program, and · Communicating clearly that support of the Marine Corps is the responsibility of the entire Office of Naval Research. The committee believes that Code 353 has other important work to do beyond formulating and managing the execution of the Marine Corps S&T program and the supporting 6.1 program.
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... Acquisition Reexamine funding category. Firepower ETAL Look beyond ETAL to targeting multiple mobile targets.
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... Because the Marine Corps has no organizational component responsible for establishing S&T requirements a function performed instead by a working group that meets periodically the committee recommends that Code 353 take an active role in: · Urging quantitative analysis of the OMFTS concept and providing, if necessary, some of the support and technology for such analyses; and · Creating technology roadmaps that predict the performance levels and availability dates of the systems that are based on technologies that Code 353 and others are exploring. Code 353 program officers should achieve more in their interactions with their peers than an exchange of ideas about how to direct the Marine Corps S&T program.
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... 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.
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  • future naval
  • include continuation
  • beyond etal
  • performed instead
  • meeting technology

  • projects inherited
  • future investments
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  • concept technology
  • alternative future

  • incorporate evaluation
  • supports investment
  • requirements accretion
  • reporting directly
  • warfare operations

  • special effort
  • periodically reevaluate
  • information allowing
  • discovery program
  • inherited recently


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