In the face of renewed great power competition, the U.S. Marine Corps is adapting to an evolving battlespace where adversaries aim to disrupt our supply chains and challenge American military capabilities across all domains—land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace—and in every theater of operations, from the Indo-Pacific to Europe to the Arctic. To counter these evolving threats, Marine Corps Systems Command’s Program Manager for Combat Support Systems (PM CSS)
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Marine Corps Systems Command recently reached Fully Operational Capability (FOC) for the MK 22 Mod 0 Advanced Sniper Rifle (ASR). This milestone marks a critical step forward in modernizing the Marine Corps’ sniper capabilities of Reconnaissance and Infantry units. "Fully Operational Capability is achieved when all the Infantry and Reconnaissance units, as well as MOS-producing schools, have been fielded to and new equipment training is completed," stated Maj Michael Billings, Weapons Team Lead, Marine Corps Systems Command.
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Since 2018, the National Defense Strategy (NDS) has emphasized the shift from counterinsurgency operations in the Middle East to preparing for large-scale conflicts against near-peer competitors across various regions and theaters of operations. In response to the shifting geopolitical reality, the Marine Corps launched Force Design, a strategic blueprint for modernization aimed at preparing the Corps for an era of renewed great power competition.
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The Marine Corps has begun fielding a replacement to a decades-old communication system.The Next Generation Troposcatter, or NGT, is a transportable, secure beyond-line-of-sight data transmission system capable of operation in a satellite communication (SATCOM)-denied or degraded environment. The NGT replaces the Tropospheric Scatter Microwave Radio Terminal, or AN/TRC-170, which has been in the field since the 1980s.
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