Marine Corps Program Wide Supt

INFORMATION WAR ROOM DIVISION (IWR): The Information Environment (IE) is a global, interconnected, complex, continuously changing eco-system that is increasingly connected across our war fighting functions. Given the complexity and the speed of changes in the IE and to address the significant role information now plays in current and future conflicts, a unifying operational and technical strategy must be developed to outpace our adversaries. Analysis will inform the development and integration of Marine Corps Information Environment Enterprise (MCIEE) that are guided by the Commandant's Planning Guidance (CPG) and Marine Corps Force Design. Research and analysis efforts support: design and coordinated implementation of an Objective Network to fight on and through a contested environment; design structure to engage and collaborate with Joint and Coalition partners; and conduct analysis to inform the development and fielding of an integrated information capability. These efforts will be accomplished leveraging analytic support from government Labs and Industry to dynamically exploit our National Defense Strategy (NDS) priority operational problems related to the Information Environment through demonstration, limited user evaluations, and functional capability assessments with the Fleet Marine Forces. SERVICE DATA OFFICE (SDO): The Service Data Office (SDO) is the designated authority for executing the Marine Corps' transformation into a data-centric, AI-enabled force, a critical modernization effort mandated by senior defense leadership to maintain our competitive edge. This transformation is not merely a technological upgrade; it is a strategic imperative driven by the Secretary of War's directive to "treat data as a weapon system and manage, secure, and use data for operational effect" (DOW Data Strategy, 2020; DepSecWar Memo, "Creating Data Advantage," 2021). The SDO's mission directly implements the DOW's core data decrees, ensuring that all Marine Corps data is visible, accessible, understandable, linked, trustworthy, interoperable, and secure (VAULTIS), which is foundational to enabling Combined Joint All Domain Operations and decision advantage from the tactical edge to the enterprise level.

The Marine Corps Operational Test and Evaluation Activity (MCOTEA) supports the material acquisition process by managing the Marine Corps Operational Test (OT) programs for Acquisition Categories (ACAT) I through ACAT IV (less OT of manned aircraft) and performs other functions that may be directed by the Commandant of the Marine Corps. The primary purpose of Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) is to provide information to the Milestone Decision Authority (MDA) regarding the Operational Effectiveness (OE) and Operational Suitability (OS) of the system addressed at a decision point. MCOTEA must ensure that the Marines in the Operating Forces receive the very best possible equipment and support. MCOTEA must also ensure each system proposed for acquisition is tested adequately, evaluated objectively, and reported independently. Marine Corps Operational Test and Evaluation Activity (MCOTEA) is the only unit that provides the Marine Corps with required operational test and evaluation (OT&E) capability, ensuring the Marine Corps is compliant with laws and regulations, and ensuring that training and equipment are operationally effective, relevant, and suitable. Additionally, MCOTEA's early involvement, coordination, and oversight in developmental testing and evaluation of new combat and combat support systems ensures that our Marines are the best trained, and have the best equipment, with the lowest test costs for taxpayers. Finally, MCOTEA's support of rapid acquisitions ensures that Marines in the fight are supported with the newest and most advanced equipment and that the Marine Corps is compliant with regulations.

Marine Corps Requirements Oversight Council (MROC) established Operations Analysis Directorate (OAD), as the sole operations research, analytic support, and studies management program for the Marine Corps Study System (MCSS). MCSS analysis is achieving greater efficiency, productivity, and innovation through operations research methodologies such as: operational analysis, statistical analysis, multi-objective decision methods, optimization, cost analysis, and a wide range of computer-based models and combat simulations ensuring the optimization of resources now and in the future. Analyses span the spectrum of conflict in a Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental, and Multinational (JIIM) context to inform critical senior level decision makers of current and future national security issues and provides unique and distinct analytic capabilities that enable the collaboration and sharing of analyses that reduces the duplication of topics that are of broad interest. MCSS is an integral part of the Marine Corps and Joint Chiefs decision-making processes to organize, man, train, equip, sustain, and transform resources from the current to the future force.

The enhanced Wargaming Capability (WGC) facilitates Force Design by utilizing advanced modeling and simulation systems and analytic assessments of current Operation Plans, Concepts of Operations, future operational and functional concepts, and operational and technology-based approaches. These results will refine our Force Design through our campaign of learning and increase research capacity to maintain the USMC as a "force-in-readiness." The USMC WGC consists of Wargaming software, modeling, and simulation tools and systems, a Wargaming and Analysis Center (MILCON Project P-719), and the necessary personnel supporting the new capability. The WGC solution will provide an enhanced wargaming capability to inform decision support to capability development prioritization and resourcing. The program gained entry into the facility in the 1st quarter of FY 2024 and began the Information Technology (IT) and Audio-Visual (AV) infrastructure installation to support the accreditation process for certifying the complex technologies. The WGC program acquisition strategy transitioned from 10 U.S.C 2302 Middle Tier of Acquisition (MTA) to a Major Capability Acquisition (MCA) in October 2025. This shift in strategy came as the USMC suspended deployment of the existing wargaming software solution due to affordability. This appropriation will now support the delivery of an interim wargaming solution to meet the USMC's minimum requirements with planned incremental enhancements.

The Commandant of the Marine Corps' (CMC) Office of Net Assessment (ONA) was established in July 2022 as a result of a CMC tasking in the April 2021 Annual Force Design Update. ONA provides long-term comparative assessments of trends, key competitions, risks, opportunities, and future prospects of USMC roles and missions in order to support strategic decision making for the CMC and Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps (ACMC). Previously executed in Center for Naval Analysis PE: 0605154N RDTE PRJ: 0031