The Marine Corps is beginning to field its new Joint Light Tactical Vehicle and, after improved training and some physical adjustments, the Corps believes JLTVs are “operationally suitable and effective,” the program’s manager said Feb. 27. That conclusion is quite…
Corps Asks Industry for Longer Range, Mobile Fires Technologies for LAR Battalions
ARLINGTON, Va. — The Marine Corps is asking industry to show which technologies could be ready shortly to give its armored scout units a long-range, precision, on-the-move fires capability that could include unmanned aerial sensors, loitering guided munitions and command-and-control…
General Dynamics Land Systems Receives Contract to Support Reset of U.S. Marine Corps Light Armored Vehicle Fleet
STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. — General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada has been awarded a 37.2 million contract to deliver 60 hardware kits for the U.S. Marine Corps’ Light Armored Vehicle (LAV) Reset Program. The hardware kit addresses key obsolescence and readiness issues…
Advanced 3-D Printing Allows Marines Quick Material Production in the Field
QUANTICO, Va. — From a small plastic clip that keeps a snowshoe fastened to a multi-ton concrete replacement bridge and a wide range of items in between, Marines are using advanced manufacturing, commonly called 3-D printing, to produce in the…
Marines to Leverage Unmanned Systems, More Capable Amphib Fleet to Fight Great Power Competition
WASHINGTON – The Marine Corps and the amphibious fleet will be critical to prevailing in the emerging great power competition in which U.S. forces will have to “fight to get to the fight” against China’s growing military capabilities, the Marine’s…
Marines 3D Print First Reinforced Concrete Bridge in Western Hemisphere
MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. — Marines from the 1st Marine Logistics Group (MLG) at Camp Pendleton, California, transformed their motto — “Victory through Logistics” — to action when they successfully 3D printed a concrete bridge in December, with the…
Marine Rifle Squads Get Upgraded Night Vision Devices
MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. — An updated helmet-mounted night vision system is beginning to make its way to infantry units. Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) accelerated the acquisition of about 1,300 Squad Binocular Night Vision Goggles (SNBVG) using existing…
Raytheon Selected for Marine Corps Hornet AESA Radar Upgrade
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — The U.S. Marine Corps has selected Raytheon’s APG-79(v)4 AESA [active electronically scanned array] radar to equip its F/A-18C/D Hornet fleet, the company said in a Jan. 15 release. Raytheon will begin delivering radars in 2020 and…
SPAWAR Awards First IWRP Contract
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) Systems Center (SSC) Atlantic awarded the first prototype project agreement (PPA) under the Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) for the Information Warfare Research Project (IWRP) on Jan. 8 for $1.3 million….
Effort Underway to Extend Service Life of Light Armored Vehicles
MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. — The fleet of Marine Corps Light Armored Vehicles (LAVs) will begin receiving a number of necessary upgrades under the terms of a $37.2 million contract awarded Jan. 4. General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada will perform…