USMC Concepts & Programs 2013 - Defense Innovation Marketplace

chapter 3: programs
Small-unit training is receiving particular focus by
TECOM to prepare Marines for today’s and future operating
environments. The Squad Immersive Training
Environment (SITE) program will significantly enhance
collective training for the squad. SITE is envisioned as
a multifaceted “toolkit” of integrated live, virtual, and
constructive training capabilities that commanders can
leverage to train their small units at all points along the
training continuum. The SITE “toolkit” should include
current virtual and live training systems appropriate for
small units, and future capabilities that leverage emerging
technologies.
TECOM has participated in numerous joint initiatives
focused on immersive training at the squad and
platoon levels. In support of the Enhanced Company
Operations (ECO) concept, MTSD is examining the
networking and interoperability of selected staff training,
combined arms, combat convoy, combat vehicle,
and aviation simulation systems to enable better training
capabilities among critical MAGTF building blocks.
These efforts will be integrated within the emerging
Small unit Integrated Training Environment (SuITE)
program to provide the domain for ECO.
TECOM’s request to integrate the Marine Corps
MAGTF Tactical Warfare Simulation system into its
joint live, virtual, and constructive (JLVC) federation
was approved. This incorporation will provide higher
simulation fidelity of MAGTF and amphibious operations
in joint exercises and enable the Marine Corps to
better leverage the many JLVC tools to support Service
training and Combatant Commander regional engagement
exercises. TECOM is pursuing appropriate
linkages among existing Marine Corps simulations to
provide more robust capabilities and examining simulations
that address political, military, economic, social,
infrastructure, and information issues.
Finally, the MROC approved TECOM’s Live, Virtual,
and Constructive Training Environment (LVC-
TE) Initial Capabilities Document that outlined desired
LVC-TE capabilities. This analysis identified gaps in the
Marine Corps ability to network current capabilities
and delineated integration standards for future capabilities.
TECOM is further examining networking requirements
to link simulation systems with each other
and with live domain capabilities, and as well as provide
access to existing Marine Corps, joint, interagency, and
multinational partner training and modeling simulation
networks. Such a network would support distributed
training venues between MAGTF elements, enable
large-scale MAGTF exercises, and facilitate Marine
Corps participation in future joint and other exercises.
MISSION-CAPABLE TRAINING
RANGES
Marine Corps combat readiness depends on the
continued availability of Ranges and Training Areas
(RTAs) that provide opportunities for realistic, mission-oriented
training in multiple, complex environments.
To this end, the Marine Corps Training and
Education Command (TECOM) continues to execute
the comprehensive Mission-Capable Ranges Program.
The purpose of Mission-Capable Ranges is to plan,
program for, and execute the development, modernization
and sustainment of RTAs, and the delivery of
comprehensive range services and training support
to the warfighter. Mission-Capable Ranges is requirements-driven,
incorporating standards articulated in
Marine Corps Reference Publication (MCRP) 3-0C
Operational Training Ranges Required Capabilities, and
requirements-based assessments of the capabilities of
RTAs.
TECOM has established six cornerstone objectives
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