Marine Corps Ground Combat/Support System

Mission — Marine Corps Grnd Cmbt/Supt Sys source

This PE supports the demonstration and validation of Marine Corps Ground/Supporting Arms Systems for utilization in Marine Air-Ground Expeditionary Force amphibious operations. This program is funded under Demonstration and Validation because it develops and integrates hardware for experimental tests related to specific ground weapon systems.

Mission — Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle source

The Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV) program is designed to fill a pressing operational need with the Marine Corps portfolio of reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition systems. The ARV will be a purpose-built combat vehicle system, highly mobile on land and water, that can sense, communicate, and fight in the performance of reconnaissance and battlespace shaping activities. Equipped with modern command, control, communications, and surveillance systems the ARV will transform the ability of Fleet Marine Forces to sense and communicate within the littoral operating environment by providing a persistent and mobile systems of systems to augment and sustain effective sensor webs and kill chains. The base program will consist of the following mission role variants (MRV): ARV-30mm (ARV-30), ARV-Command, Control, Communications and Computers/Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C4UAS) and ARV-Logistics (LOG). The complete family of vehicle capability is planned to consist of 3 additional mission role variants: ARV-Recovery (R), ARV-Precision Fires (PF) and ARV-Counter Unmanned Arial System (CUAS).

Mission — SMAW Follow-On source

The Family of Anti-Armor Weapon Systems (FOAAWS) portfolio supports the Shoulder-launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon (SMAW) Follow-On solution. The solution is the Multi-purpose Anti-Armor Weapon System (MAAWS) M3A1, which is a portable, shoulder-fired, line-of-sight, reloadable, 84mm recoilless rifle. The MAAWS provides anti-armor, anti-personnel, anti-material, and assault capabilities to Marine Rifle Squads, Combat Engineers, and Reconnaissance Teams to effectively execute both offensive and defensive operations. Also contained in FOAAWS is the research, development, test, and evaluation for a suite of ammunition which supports a wide range of mission sets including obscuration, illumination, anti-personnel, armored penetration, bunker penetration, and soft target engagement. This line also supports the development of training aids and materiels to include reduced impacts of blast over pressure and impulse noise on the Fleet Marine Force (FMF).

Mission — Family of Expeditionary Fuel Systems (FEFS) source

Family of Expeditionary Fuel Systems (FEFS) is a line that contains highly versatile fuel systems in support of Fleet Marine Force (FMF) operations. The family contains individual Table of Allowance Material Control Numbers which support FMF and Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) operations and future operating concepts by providing all aspects of land and littoral-based fuel support to include receiving, test, additization, storage, sensors and metering, transfer and dispensing of fuel.

Mission — Multiple-Launch Rocket System Family of Munitions source

This line develops a Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) Family of Munitions (MFOM) Launcher Unit (MLU) to interface with the Remotely Operated Ground Unit for Expeditionary Fires (ROGUE-Fires) carrier. This development provides Medium-range Missile (MMSL) batteries the capability to utilize the ROGUE-Fires carrier for either Navy Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System (NMESIS) launchers with Naval Strike Missiles (NSM) or MLUs capable of firing the entire selection of MFOM similarly employed by High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS). This modular capability is an essential element of the Marine Corps artillery modernization strategy as it affords operational flexibility for the artillery regiments and Marine Littoral Regiments (MLR), as well as component commonality with other Department of Defense systems. The MLU will consist of a MLU sled (composed of the launch unit with a Fire Control System (FCS)) and a weapon control system termed Remote Gunner Station (RGS). The RGS, formerly termed as Weapon Control System (WCS), is a modular, scalable tablet that can be operated from a Mobile Command Vehicle as well as from a command post and is being adapted to control up to three MLUs per section. The MLU sled will be mounted upon a ground-based, tele-operated carrier (ROGUE-Fires) and will be capable of firing the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS), the Reduced Range Practice Rocket (RRPR), the pending Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) series, and other MFOM-related munitions that the HIMARS platform can accommodate. A ROGUE-Fires leader-follower kit will be capable of steering up to three systems. This effort includes design, development, integration, and test of the MLU and RGS for interface with the ROGUE-Fires carrier. The MLU makes extensive use of existing systems to increase operational flexibility and reduce procurement and product support. FY 2025 continued initial software development and testing for the one-to-one radio-controlled operations of the MLU and conducted an integrated flight test. FY 2026 completes the development of one-to-one radio-controlled operations, continues development for the one-to-three radio-controlled operations of the MLU, purchases test assets, and conducts developmental testing.

Mission — Combat Capability Development Transition source

Long Range Unmanned Surface Vessel (LRUSV) is a Marine Corps Force Design priority that has demonstrated, through extensive wargaming and simulations, significant operational impact in the Naval Expeditionary Force's surface warfare campaign against peer competitors in the maritime battlespace, particularly when operating within planned sensor and communication networks. LRUSV is a semi-autonomous platform capable of multi-domain sensor collections that enables the Marine Division / Marine Expeditionary Force to enhance Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) for the Naval Expeditionary Force and Coalition maritime operations centers. LRUSV will employ a suite of organic sensors (RADAR, EO/IR, and Electromagnetic Support) to accomplish its primary mission of gaining and maintaining custody of surface contacts of interest in the littoral operating environment. LRUSV sensor capabilities will assist the Marine Division's Marine Reconnaissance Company in its mission to conduct seaward reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition in a peer-threat contested, littoral operating environment across the spectrum of competition, crisis, and conflict to enhance Joint and coalition maritime domain awareness and facilitate the application of Joint fires. In FY 2025, LRUSV continued autonomy software development and sensor integration activities and conducted testing of the manned/unmanned teaming concepts and sea-based command and control (C2). In FY 2026, LRUSV will implement sensor enhancements, complete small form factor testing, and begin facilities studies.

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