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Marine Corps Tested Equipment Provides Best Available Solution to the Individual Warfighter April 27, 2007 — Protecting the lives of all Marines, Soldiers and Sailors is the government’s highest priority, and the Marine Corps has outfitted its Marines with the best Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) available. Directed by the Commandant of the Marine Corps, on April 17, the Marine Corps issued Marine Administrative Message (MARADMIN) 262/07 regarding MORE

Marine Corps places additional order for life-saving vehicles April 23, 2007 — The Marine Corps Systems command (MCSC) has ordered 1,000 additional life-saving armored Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles. These vehicles have a proven capability to save lives by dramatically improving the current level of mine and improvised explosive device (IED) protection with a V-shaped hull and raised chassis. These MORE

Marine Corps Systems Command FFME Team Earns SECNAV Award March 2, 2007 — The Secretary of the Navy announced last month that Marine Corps Systems Command’s (MCSC) Family of Field Medical Equipment (FFME) team, part of the command’s Combat Equipment Support Systems (PG16) program, earned a Department of the Navy Competition and Procurement Award for fiscal year 2006. The award recognizes military and civilian MORE

Marine Corps Systems Command issues additional orders February 23, 2007 — Continuing to use an innovative and unprecedented business process, Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) issued additional orders today to produce and field more life-saving armored vehicles. The Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) orders, issued simultaneously to three manufacturers for 180 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles, have a MORE

Marine Corps Systems Command issues orders for life-saving armored vehicles February 14, 2007 — Using an innovative and unprecedented business process, defense contractors and Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) issued orders Wednesday, Feb. 14, to produce and field life-saving armored vehicles faster than most thought possible. MCSC simultaneously awarded Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) orders to two manufacturers for 215 Mine Resistant MORE

Marine Corps Announces Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle Contracts January 26, 2007 — Continuing to expeditiously provide the best available solution to save warfighters’ lives, Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) awarded nine Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts Jan. 26 and a first delivery order for the testing, production and sustainability of the initial 36 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles for MORE

Marine Corps Systems Command Team Earns Prestigious SPAWAR Lightning Bolt Award December 19, 2006 — The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) recently honored a Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) and Program Executive Office – Enterprise Information Systems (PEO-EIS) team with its prestigious “Lightening Bolt” award. This is the highest level of team recognition at SPAWAR. Rear Admiral Tim Flynn, Program Executive Officer for MORE

Marine Corps Systems Command Lance Corporal is MCCDC Marine of the Year December 8, 2006 — The Marine Corps Combat Development Command (MCCDC) selected a Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) lance corporal as its Marine of the Year in a Quantico, Va., ceremony Dec. 8. Even though Lance Cpl. Gerald Walker, an administrative clerk in the MCSC Staff Secretary’s Office, has only served in the military for 16 months, his dedication and hard MORE

Marine Corps Systems Command Displays Equipment Helping Warfighters Win November 10, 2006 — A Marine in full combat gear stands ready with weapon in hand. Not far away, the barrel of a Marine Corps Lightweight 155mm Howitzer aims skyward while the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) sits patiently nearby. Sounds like a battlefield in some far off locale, but instead, this scene unfolded in a static display tent at the MORE

Marine Corps Systems Command buys Helmet Pad Suspension Systems October 5, 2006 — Marine Corps Systems Command has purchased 89,000 sets of combat helmet suspension pads for immediate fielding. Previously, a sling suspension system had been fielded for Marine Corps combat helmets. Early results of testing between the pad suspension system and the sling suspension system for Marine Corps and Army helmets indicate pads offer more MORE

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