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National Defense April 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Marines Take Unusual Steps to Reduce Fuel Demand In Afghanistan, marines are being challenged to unusual lengths. They must set up forward-operating bases, or FOBs, in areas with zero infrastructure.
National Defense December 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Gargantuan Thirst for Fuel Creates Logistical Nightmare for Marines The next step for the Marine Corps is to evaluate what products and technologies may be available in government, academia and the private sector to address these energy problems.
National Defense June 2013 Dan Parsons	Marines Hope to Preserve Advances in Renewable Energy Over the past 10 years, the Marines have made significant inroads to becoming self-sustaining in the field because saving energy and water translates directly to moving faster and killing more bad guys.
National Defense May 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Army, Marines Face Uphill Battle To Lighten Troops' Battery Load Troops deploy with more electronic gear than ever: Flashlights, radios, GPS receivers, computers, cameras, mp3 players, small robots, all of which have to be constantly charged.
National Defense May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Prolonged Wars Tax Military Capacity to Deploy Electricity The war in Afghanistan is testing the limits of "deployable energy."
National Defense May 2011 Fred C. Lash	Marines Take Steps to Avoid Costly Bottled Water Resupply The cost of delivering bottled water to the troops is rapidly becoming unsustainable. Bottles create large amounts of litter and are far more expensive than the water provided by military purification units.
National Defense February 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Tough to Free Troops From Oppressive Tyranny of Fuel The current wars have exposed a previously ignored military vulnerability: the huge dependence on fossil fuels.
National Defense May 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's Energy Battle Plan: Attack Fuel Demand The well-documented vulnerability of military supply convoys and greater awareness of the problem, however, have not yet diminished U.S. forces' enormous appetite for fuel.
National Defense April 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	How Much Does the Pentagon Pay for a Gallon of Gas? Two Defense Science Board studies have criticized the Pentagon for not having reliable methods of measuring what is known as the "fully burdened" cost of fuel (FBCF).
National Defense August 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	A New Mission for Military Trucks: Power Generation The new MRAP models come with double the power -- a 400-amp alternator, compared to 200 amps previously. Most of the older trucks have been upgraded to the larger alternator.
National Defense August 2009 Stew Magnuson	Ensuring No One Pays the 'Ultimate Price' for Fuel Becomes New Goal After three decades of using the same technology, a new family of generators, the advanced medium mobile power sources, are in the pipeline. They will be more fuel efficient and quieter and could save up to $800 million in fuel costs per year.
National Defense October 2013 Dan Parsons	Marines Create Power, Filter Water on the Go There are two schools of thought on how to mitigate the risk of running out of supplies in the field. One is to artificially increase a Marine or soldier's load-bearing capability. The less expensive, simpler avenue is to develop ways in which necessities can be foraged.
National Defense December 2012 Dan Parsons	Water, Water Everywhere ... That Troops Can't Drink Napoleon Bonaparte is credited with saying that an army marches on its stomach. But an even more important tactical necessity than food is the availability of clean drinking water.
National Defense April 2008 Breanne Wagner	Army Powers Up for Ambitious Fuel Saving Program As roadside attacks on fuel convoys continue to plague the U.S. military, the Army is pursuing a new power program that could cut petroleum use in half at bases in Iraq
National Defense March 2012 Eric Beidel	Soldier Energy Needs Outpacing Technology, Policy The military over the past decade has been grappling with the issue of power and its effects on everything from the mundane -- like microwaves and coffee pots -- to the sustainment of troops on foot patrols.
National Defense October 2010 Grace V. Jean	How Marines Will Storm Beaches in The 21st Century While many pundits contend that ship-to-shore fighting is fast becoming archaic, Marine Corps leadership insists that future conflicts may again require amphibious skills.
National Defense June 2010 Grace V. Jean	Marine Corps Prepares For Budget Cuts and Uncertain Future Marine officials say that the force in the coming decades will be just as busy, but it will have to do the job with fewer resources.
National Defense March 2006 Harold Kennedy	Leathernecks Sharpen Focus on Cultural Awareness The Marine Corps has launched an effort to improve the ability of its troops to cope with the complex cultural issues that they are encountering in anti-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations.
National Defense April 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Seeking $131M For Energy-Saving Projects The Pentagon has asked Congress for $131 million to develop energy-saving technologies during the next five years to fund a mix of fuel cells, generators and engine technologies.
National Defense January 2007 Grace Jean	Marine Corps' Vision for the Future Requires More Training, Technology Beginning this month, the Marine Corps will start testing a new war-fighting concept aimed at countering unconventional enemies. The technologies that would support it, however, are lagging, officials said.
National Defense January 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Weighed Down by Heavy Hardware, Marine Brigades Go on a Diet The idea that marine units are becoming so weighed down by equipment they are beginning to resemble the Army has been an irritant to Marine Corps' senior leaders for several years.
National Defense January 2016 Stew Magnuson	Marines Prepare to Fight at Sea, on the Ground, From the Air After more than a decade of slogging counterinsurgency warfare, the Marine Corps is preparing for the conflicts of the future.
National Defense December 2012 Thomas A. Benes	Navy, Marine Corps Rethink Expeditionary Warfare Expeditionary warfare is evolving to meet the demands of a future beyond the Iraq-Afghanistan conflicts. The Navy is rebalancing its forward deployment posture, and the Marine Corps is in transition from land-centric warfare.
National Defense March 2006 Harold Kennedy	Shift to Special Operations Will Not `Gut' the Marine Corps, General Says The Marine Special Operations Command (MARSOC) is the first major Marine Corps component ever to join the U.S. Special Operations Command.
National Defense May 2011 Grace V. Jean	Researchers Tackle Marines' Portable Power Challenges The Defense Department's research laboratories are spending millions of dollars to improve batteries and to develop new portable power technologies for dismounted troops.
National Defense April 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Marine Corps Not Yet Ready To Shake Its Persecution Complex Defense Secretary Robert Gates made it official: The Marine Corps is not going to turn into a "second Army," nor will it have to give up its distinctive role as the nation's 911 force. Regrowing its amphibious roots after a decade of landlocked war has become a cri de coeur for the Corps.
National Defense September 2007 Grace Jean	Marines Turn Attention to Traditional Skills Traditional Marine Corps missions -- such as launching attacks from the sea -- are being neglected as units prepare for urban combat, and officials worry that important skills are eroding.
National Defense September 2007 Erwin & Pearce	While Mired in Iraq, Marines Still See Their Future at Sea The Marine Corps for the past four years has committed its people and assets to the war in Iraq. But as the possibility of a force drawdown looms on the horizon, Marine strategists are grappling with fundamental questions about the future.
National Defense January 2014 Dan Parsons	Budgets Permitting, Marines Could Be Fighting Alongside Robots by 2020s Within five years, Marines could head into battle alongside autonomous robotic trucks carrying water, ammunition and other gear.
National Defense April 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Marines to Take Over Responsibilities For Training Foreign Forces The Marine Corps assumes a permanent role in the training of foreign troops. Previously, Marines had done this on an ad hoc basis.
National Defense July 2005 Harold Kennedy	Marines Seek Better Training, Gear for Urban Combat The U.S. Marine Corps is shifting its emphasis to preparing Marines to fight in urban areas, in addition to deserts, mountains and jungles.
National Defense August 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Energy: Market Holds Promise, and Plenty of Caveats The big daddy of military renewable energy projects is the Obama administration's directive for the U.S. military to deploy 3 gigawatts -- enough to power 2 to 3 million homes -- of renewable energy, including solar, wind, biomass and geothermal, by 2025.
National Defense June 2012 Dan Parsons	Effort to Reduce Battery Weight May Soon Hit Brick Wall Industry and military scientists continue the search for lighter and more efficient batteries, with a renewed focus on reducing loads carried by soldiers that affect their mobility and health.
National Defense July 2010	Marines Get Their Own Version of the iPod Touch Troops have used the Touch, among other things, as a translation device or as a means to display mission data or biometrics information.
National Defense October 2012 Dan Parsons	Marines Counting on Robots to Keep Them Out of Harm's Way Marine Corps researchers are on the constant lookout for technologies that can keep ground troops out of harm's way or make their tough jobs easier. Autonomous robots -- on land, sea and in the air -- are increasingly seen as an end to that means.
National Defense November 2011 Eric Beidel	New Generator Shrinks Power Footprint ITT Corp. unveiled its CRUX (an acronym that stands for create, regulate, utilize, eXport) generator in September at the Defense and Security Equipment International trade show in London.
National Defense March 2013 Dan Parsons	Marine Corps Struggles With Sea-Based Supply Lines Modern ship-to-shore invasions rely on smaller forces that wade ashore then draw supplies and ammunition from a ship. A large portion of the force, including leadership, has little experience with "ship-to-objective" scenarios where supplies and command and control remain at sea.
National Defense November 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Marines Seek to Recapture Their Lost Sea-Warfare Skills "Dawn Blitz 2011," was a simulation of what it could be like to deploy a Marine Expeditionary Brigade force of up to 17,000, entirely from ships.
National Defense September 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Energy: Small, Incremental Steps Do Better Than Sweeping Reforms The Air Force saved $700 million in its five-year fuel budget just by redirecting flights through shorter routes and choreographing more efficient itineraries for cargo deliveries.
National Defense April 2006 Harold Kennedy	Marines Struggle to Begin Rebuilding Force in `07 The Marine Corps is requesting a budget of $18.2 billion, but only a fraction of that will go to buy new equipment. The Corps will need nearly $10 billion in additional funds to help the service begin to recover from the Iraq war and reorganize for an extended campaign against terrorism.
National Defense November 2015 Stew Magnuson	Marine Corps R&D Focuses on Urban Scenarios That the Marine Corps would like to return to its expeditionary, sea-based roots after serving the past decade in Iraq and Afghanistan is well known.
National Defense April 2007 Breanne Wagner	Alternative Power Sources Sought for Remote Bases Mobile generators that produce renewable energy are about to be fielded by the Army's Rapid Equipping Force in Iraq and Afghanistan.
National Defense June 2009 Robert H. Williams	Hollywood Set Designers Develop New Marine Simulator A nearly 10-year effort involving Hollywood set designers and military virtual-reality experts has yielded a remarkably convincing simulator for familiarizing Marine Corps troops with their combat equipment.
National Defense October 2010 Grace V. Jean	Radios for Every Infantryman: Marine Company Tests Experimental Communications Gear A marine rifle company recently experienced something that few of its peers have - operating in a combat scenario with a radio in the hands of every member of the unit.
National Defense February 2006 Harold Kennedy	Marines Bring Iraq Lessons Into Street - Fighting Drills An urban-combat training center in California may be the largest such facility in the world. It can provide that "you never know what's around the corner" unexpected feeling -- just like in a real city.
National Defense January 2007 Harold Kennedy	Rebuilding Efforts Anticipate A Lengthy Fight The Marine Corps, as it struggles to rebuild, repair or replace its combat-battered equipment, is planning for a conflict that will continue for years to come.
National Defense February 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Marine Unit to Deploy Under SEAL Command An elite unit of about 85 Marines is scheduled to deploy in April as part of a Navy SEAL squadron. The detachment, for all intents and purposes, formalizes the Marine Corps' relationship with the U.S. Special Operations Command.
National Defense November 2014 Yasmin Tadjdeh	New Energy Technologies Could Provide Military With Inexhaustible Power Sources The Defense Department will need renewable energy sources that can juice up soldier equipment, sustain weapon systems and power bases, all while reducing the department's logistical tail and reliance on fossil fuels.
National Defense June 2006 Harold Kennedy	Marine Corps Procurement Forecast Clouded by Bleak Budget Projections Equipment buys in the near term will focus on technologies to defeat improvised explosive devices and on protective systems for troops and vehicles.
National Defense September 2007 Grace Jean	Small Unit Leaders Need Better Training Marine Corps planners have begun a series of combat experiments designed to sharpen the skills of dismounted troops.