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the Office of Naval Research helping the
US Marines lightening the load when
unexpected threats arise worldwide it is
the united states marine corps that
prepares to confront them under the
direction of marine commandant general
james amos the Marine Corps will return
to its expeditionary amphibious roots
general Amos compared the Marines to a
middleweight boxer who can push his
weight up or down based on training and
need a middleweight fighter can fight
one weight class down or one-way class
up he trains usually one weight class up
in order to really stress his
capabilities but as a middleweight he
has the agility of the lighter weight
classes any punches with the power of
the heavier weight classes where I
haven't done one if it is training and I
think we need to start getting back to
that two were more well-rounded as a
Marine Corps and get back to our roots
we want to maintain the record level of
protection and personnel armor as well
as in vehicle armor we want to balance
it against the imperative of being able
to have the mobility and the maneuver
that we need carry too much weight
really affected our ability to be
effective in the fight for her out in
the field we always think about how can
we make this lighter so it's a good
feeling on that there actually is a
department that is working on trying to
make everything life for us along those
lines we have to recapture or offensive
mindset and the way to carry the day is
through high mobility high temple
operations in accordance with this
marine imperative O&R is developing
innovative science and technology
solutions that will enable the marine to
be smarter more agile and more capable
and they are today able to outmaneuver
out think and outperform any threat it's
really a matter of taking things away
and removing elements and allowing them
to operate independently operated
effectively and within their training
so if we want to be an expeditionary
force we look at a piece of gear or
practice or the way we train Marines and
say does this make us expeditionary does
this make us light on our feet doesn't
make us operate with a higher opt-in
both in our enemy the first of three key
elements of lightening the load is the
ability to out think the adversary out
think includes the ability to comprehend
the battlespace in greater detail and to
make decisions from operational to
tactical levels thus understanding the
implications of those decisions faster
than ever before
don't think the enemy means blocking out
all the stuff that doesn't matter at the
time and just focusing on your mission
and being able to tunnel vision on the
enemy here would decide what's important
and what's not a *** in order to
accomplish the mission massive amounts
of data and countless intelligence
reports bombard marine analysts data
conditioning programs sift through vast
quantities of information automatically
populating relevant reports and imagery
into a semantic wiki and alerting the
analyst the unit can focus its
information flow only on what is needed
for its area of operations
the end result is that commanders have
access to the information they need to
make operational decisions while
increasing tooth detail on is our asset
loss or the wide area augmentation
system continuously tracks people and
vehicles in our existing is our fees by
forming a visual imprint of each entity
the feed can be analyzed in a more
robust fashion than ever before
following a significant event enemy
fighters can be tracked with positive
identification
even if they travel under trees or
through crowds also predictive tools
offer the promise of a learning analysts
when seemingly innocent bystanders
display suspicious behavior such as
shadowing patrols or using indirect
routing Weiss with
worldwide integration prices early
warning system is a comprehensive system
that monitors blogs social networking
sites news articles and intelligence
reports and uses that data and advanced
behavior models to predict civil unrest
in a geographic area monitoring
available pertinent data from multiple
sources effectively alerts commanders to
potential incidents such as rioting or
violent demonstrations allowing marine
leaders to stay a step ahead response
planning the second key element of
lightening the load is the ability to
outmaneuver the adversary this means
extreme agility from the individual
marine to marine air-ground Task Force
mag calf gaining total maneuver
dominance of the battlespace being able
to outmaneuver somebody's being able to
get to Eastern Point faster the enemy
and getting the upper hand on the enemy
when i pick out new writing physical I
think of the physical ability to get to
place quick and airy vs fall behind
because you got a guy struggling
autonomy can serve as a significant
mobility enabler two Marines allowing
them to travel greater distances over
longer durations while improving economy
of force imagine the next generation of
logistic connectors able to autonomously
navigate day and night under all weather
conditions and in gps denied
environments developing this capability
requires investment in perception
intelligence enablers and architectures
human-machine collaboration and systems
engineering onr solutions provide a
positive cost-benefit analysis both on
the battlefield and to the taxpayer
modular scalable body armor is a
flexible system providing protection to
Marines that matches the level of threat
it uses cutting-edge biomechanical and
kinesthetic modeling and simulation to
produce a protection solution that is as
robust as legacy systems yet is
substantially lighter allowing for much
greater freedom of movement today's
fleet is faced with challenges related
to fuel consumption and bulk fuel
movement on the battlefield
in order to become more efficient in
lightening the load improvements and
fuel efficiency for military vehicles
are a must
fuel efficiencies enable platforms to
have extended range with a minimal
logistic tether cutting-edge
technologies under development include
auxiliary electrification electric turbo
compounding hybrids as well as engine
transmission and driveline optimization
the results of this effort will enhance
the fuel efficiency of marine corps
tactical vehicles fleet-wide the third
key element of lightening the load is
the ability to outperform the adversary
this means equipping Marines and systems
with the tools skills and abilities to
conduct the full range of military
operations in order to be able to
perform your enemy you have any
profession everything we can realize
this vision with some of the
cutting-edge research being conducted at
onr today today's commanders and mission
planners need flexibility and
adaptability in mission packaging from
the individual marine to the mag calf
our tactical footprint must be reduced
as opposed to developing and acquiring a
brand new system modular vehicle concept
offers the ability to plug a brand new
capability into an existing framework
dramatically reducing development time
and total ownership costs by
incorporating multiple capabilities on
to one platform the size and weight of
the mag tasks loadout is significantly
reduced the modular vehicle platform
could be tailored to meet small-unit
specific mission needs at the company
level operations center with minimal
logistic footprint future immersive
training environment fight demonstrates
the use of mixed reality and immersive
training technologies to prepare squads
in decision-making perspective-taking
and pattern recognition the small
decisions
there's a way that can help you make
those decisions better and know how
you're going to react of you
do the marine will experience the
simulated sights sounds and smells of
battle space and be better prepared if I
would not had to train and I had I would
have never been able to make the city
that split-second puma is a precision
targeting mortar round rather than
shooting multiple non guided mortar
rounds the marine will shoot once
hitting the target the first time
consequently the marine carries fewer
rounds while achieving first-round
effects the Marine Corps has always been
America's Expeditionary Force able to
move swiftly by land air and sea and new
technologies from the Office of Naval
Research such as lighten the load are
helping make that possible
lightening the load means more than just
shedding equipment and bringing less
things to fight it means a holistic
design approach that integrates
capabilities into single components one
of the best hedges I guess the risks of
globalism the risk of technological
surprised the risk of operational
surprise is science and technology when
you can't buy things you need the think
SNT enables you to really think to
experiment to try things out i think
it's very important for us to always be
ready to be an expeditionary force
because you can't always put your eggs
in one basket lightening the load is
absolutely imperative in order to
achieve our maneuvers goals as a service
for more information on Navy and Marine
Corps science and technology efforts
contact the Office of Naval Research