USMC Concepts & Programs 2013 - Defense Innovation Marketplace
USMC Concepts & Programs 2013 - Defense Innovation Marketplace
USMC Concepts & Programs 2013 - Defense Innovation Marketplace
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chapter 3: programs<br />
Figure 1. MCIENT Model<br />
critical data, information, and knowledge. To evolve the<br />
Corps into a knowledge-based force that achieves decision<br />
and execution superiority in traditional warfighting<br />
domains, cyberspace, and business mission areas,<br />
investments in core MCIENT components are crucial.<br />
Investments for the Marine Corps Enterprise Network<br />
(MCEN) and the Marine Corps Information<br />
Technology Environment (MCITE) will focus on ensuring<br />
their ability to more effectively deliver, display,<br />
and manage data, information, and knowledge across<br />
the enterprise.<br />
These investments will emphasize better ways for<br />
rapidly infusing emerging technologies that enhance<br />
command and control , extend the reach of forward-deployed<br />
forces, and improve organizational and tactical<br />
agility. Investments will be planned from the perspective<br />
of ensuring bandwidth-limited Marines and mission<br />
partners have improved access to mission-critical data,<br />
information, and knowledge, wherever and whenever<br />
needed, and in an understandable format. Enterprise investments<br />
will also focus on workforce education, training,<br />
and professionalization programs. Such initiatives<br />
will be designed to ensure Marines, Civilian Marines,<br />
and support contractors know how to use improved<br />
enterprise governance tools, policies, and technological<br />
capabilities to create advantage in a dynamic strategic<br />
landscape.<br />
Finally, the Marine Corps Information Enterprise<br />
will embody an institutional sense and practice for leveraging,<br />
protecting, and defending data, information,<br />
and knowledge as decisive strategic assets. To this end,<br />
the Marine Corps will infuse within its cyberspace capabilities<br />
an institutionalized Information Assurance (IA)<br />
practice for ensuring data, information, and knowledge<br />
yield decisive advantage to the Corps and the Nation,<br />
and not the enemy.<br />
Characteristics<br />
Focused on Deployed Forces: In the future, the<br />
location of MAGTF or other <strong>USMC</strong> forward-deployed<br />
forces will vary depending upon the operating context,<br />
mission, and the extent to which Marines interact<br />
with internal and external organizations and individual<br />
mission partners. The Marine Corps will leverage<br />
multi-capable MAGTFs with Marines who are trained<br />
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