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USMC Concepts & Programs 2013
tional mobility with a balanced level of performance,
protection and payload. This balance makes the ACV
operationally relevant across the full range of military
operations. The vehicle will be well protected against
the entire range of known and emerging threats while
maintaining robust performance requirements in support
of the Marine Corps mission profile.
Program Status
The ACV is in the Material Solution Analysis Phase
of the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development
System process. An analysis of alternatives (AoA) has
been completed. The scope of the AoA included development
of life cycle cost estimates for each alternative
considering major cost drivers, acquisition and sustainment
strategies, and fully burdened cost of energy.
The AoA has now paved the way for requirements refinement
in an effort to transition the program to the
next phase of acquisition development.
Marine Personnel
Carrier (MPC)
Description
The MPC will be effective across the range of military
operations during sustained operations ashore
and reinforce the assault echelon during forcible-entry
operations. Both MPC and the new amphibious combat
vehicle will replace the legacy Amphibious Assault
Vehicles in the Assault Amphibian (AA) Battalions of
Marine divisions. An MPC Company is designed to
lift an infantry battalion in conjunction with the infantry’s
organic wheeled assets. MPC will field a base
vehicle (MPC-P) and two supporting mission role
variants (MPC-C (command) and MPC-R (recovery).
Two MPC-Ps can transport a reinforced rifle squad.
The MPC-C supports mobile battalion command echelon/fire-support
coordination center functions and
the MPC-R fulfills mobile recovery and maintenance
requirements.
Operational Impact
The MPC supports expeditionary maneuver warfare
and the requirements of the Ground Combat Element
maneuver task force by providing a platform
that possesses a balance of performance, protection,
and payload attributes. The vehicle will be well protected
against the full range of known and emerging
threats while maintaining robust performance requirements
in support of the Marine Corps mission profile
(30 percent on road / 70 percent off road). The MPC
is effective on land while maneuvering with other
wheeled and tracked combat and tactical vehicles,
possesses sufficient lethality to protect the vehicle and
support dismounted infantry in the attack, and retains
sufficient payload to carry the infantry’s combat
loads, mission-essential equipment, and days of supply.
The MPC will meet the many and varied demands
of MAGTF operations.
Additionally, the MPC will possess a viable tactical
water mobility capability. Although not intended to
achieve operational water mobility performance levels
(e.g., the over-the-horizon maneuver capability), the
MPC will use the sea in the littoral operating area as
maneuver space, breach inland water obstacles and
thereby increase the MAGTF commander’s maneuver,
options and the complexity of the threat faced by our
enemies.
Program Status
In June of 2008, the Marine Requirements Oversight
Council validated the MPC requirement and approved
the solution as an advanced-generation eightwheeled
armored personnel carrier to be integrated
into the AA Battalions. The initiative envisions a Materiel
Development Decision in FY 2013 or FY 2014, after
which the program would enter the acquisition life cycle
at Milestone B. The MPC program, once launched,
will rely on full and open competition throughout the
developmental cycle.
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