Close Combat Lethality Task Force

Marines’ Summer Experimentation Agenda Includes Naval Maneuver, Urban Fighting

The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory executed a Manned and Unmanned Teaming Limited Operational Assessment (MUM-T LOA) at Muscatatuck Urban Training Center (MUTC), Indiana in late 2018. US Marine Corps Photo

The Marine Corps’ emphasis on experimentation will be in full swing this summer, with the kickoff of a new urban warfare experimentation series and a technology demonstration focused on naval maneuver.

Building on experimentation efforts that have taken place over the last few years – as...

https://news.usni.org/2019/06/03/marines-summer-experimentation-agenda-includes-naval-maneuver-urban-fighting

Marine Corps Pursuing Sea Control, Air Defense Through Focused Tech Investments

US Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Briar Purty, an infantryman with 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division tests Drone Killer Counter-UAS Technology during Urban Advanced Naval Technology Exercise 2018 (ANTX-18) at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif. on March 21, 2018. US Marine Corps Photo

MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO – The National Defense Strategy and the enemy’s evolving technological capability are forcing the Marine Corps to think more seriously about how to tackle sea control,...

https://news.usni.org/2018/10/02/marine-corps-pursuing-sea-control-air-defense-through-focused-tech-investments

Pentagon Task Force Looks to Revamp Close-Combat Infantry Training, Lethality

Marines in the Infantry Officer Course fire at an enemy trench during a live fire training exercise at Range 410A aboard the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., June 9, 2018. US Marine Corps

A Pentagon-directed group tasked with making close-combat infantry more lethal and effective has its sights on getting troops into more realistic, immersive training as soon as possible.

At the same time, the joint-service Close Combat Lethality Task Force identified the need to...

https://news.usni.org/2018/09/20/pentagon-task-force-looks-revamp-close-combat-infantry-training-lethality