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Retiring PEO LS logistician reflects on generosity - Rod Montgomery, a logistician for Program Executive Officer Land Systems, addresses the crowd during his retirement ceremony, Dec. 16 aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia. Montgomery has assisted Marine Corps Systems Command and the greater community in various ways for decades. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Monique Randolph)

Jason Engstrom, center, a Utility Task Vehicle engineer with Program Executive Officer Land Systems, reviews several of the vehicles upgrades with Marines at the Transportation Demonstration Support Area aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, Dec. 4, 2019. PEO Land System’s Light Tactical Vehicle program office is currently implementing several upgrades—including an environmental protection cover, upgraded tires and clutch improvement kit—to UTVs across the fleet. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Ashley Calingo) - Jason Engstrom, center, a Utility Task Vehicle engineer with Program Executive Officer Land Systems, reviews several of the vehicles upgrades with Marines at the Transportation Demonstration Support Area aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, Dec. 4, 2019. PEO Land System’s Light Tactical Vehicle program office is currently implementing several upgrades—including an environmental protection cover, upgraded tires and clutch improvement kit—to UTVs across the fleet. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Ashley Calingo)

New ‘lifesaving’ biometric system reaches full-rate production - A Marine uses Identity Dominance System-Marine Corps Increment 2 to collect the fingerprints of exercise participants during user evaluation April 2019 in Muscatatuck, Indiana. IDS-MC Increment 2, a handheld device capable of capturing biometric data to identify suspects, reached full-rate production in fourth quarter 2019. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Keystella Mitchell)

EOD Marines receive new IED wire detector - Marines with 2nd Marine Logistics Group use compact metal detectors to clear a road during urban motor transportation operations lane training as part of integrated training exercise 5-19 on Marine Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Aug. 5, 2019. Fielded to EOD Marines in 2019, the Buried Command Wire Detector is a portable device that will replace Carbon Rod Detectors—a type of compact metal detector—within the Marine Corps. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Scott Jenkins)

Marines meet the makers of the Amphibious Combat Vehicle - Marines from the 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion—slated to receive the first of the Corps’ new Amphibious Combat Vehicles—sign the side of an unfinished ACV at a manufacturing facility in York, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 16, 2019. Marines from 3rd AA Bn. received the rare opportunity to visit the ACV’s main production facility and meet with the workforce building the vehicle. (Courtesy Photo)

Next-generation bomb suit lightens load for warfighter - U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Joseph Hamilton is assisted with donning an Explosive Ordnance Disposal-9 Advanced Bomb Suit—the legacy system—during an EOD lateral move screening at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Feb. 26, 2019. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Drake Nickels)

A Marine Corps squad leader with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment uses the Marine Air-Ground Task Force Common Handheld to communicate during the Island Marauder exercise aboard Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, on Sept. 24, 2019. Marines had the ability to use emerging command and control technologies, including an enhanced version of the MCH, during the exercise. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Ashley Calingo) - A Marine Corps squad leader with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment uses the Marine Air-Ground Task Force Common Handheld to communicate during the Island Marauder exercise aboard Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, on Sept. 24, 2019. Marines had the ability to use emerging command and control technologies, including an enhanced version of the MCH, during the exercise. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Ashley Calingo)

A SBIR success: smaller, lighter refrigerators to hit fleet in 2021 - HM1 Michael McNett discusses the medical refrigerator on display May 1 during a Limited Military User Assessment and Engineering Technical Review at the Gruntworks Squad Integration Facility aboard Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia. Marine Corps Systems Command expanded an existing contract with Rini Technologies, Inc. to procure lighter, more compact medical refrigeration units that will replace the legacy system. (U.S. Marine Corps photo)