Story by Maj. Thomas Kleiber | Marine Forces Reserve (MARFORRES) | 03.28.2025
AUSTIN, Texas - Behind the historic yellow brick façade of the Austin Community College Campus is a sleek modern workspace with massive computer monitors and floor-to-ceiling white boards, dotted with neon sticky notes and scribbled handwriting. Here, during a two-week “coding sprint” from 17 to 28 March, 2025, Marines from the Marine Innovation Unit and the Marine Corps Software Factory......
Story by Capt. Kevin Stapleton | Marine Forces Reserve (MARFORRES) | 11.30.2023
QUEENS, N.Y. – Col. Brooks D. Braden assumed command of the Marine Innovation Unit from Col. Matthew C. Swindle during a change of command ceremony and the unit’s first-ever Marine Corps Birthday Ball celebration hosted at Terrace On The Park here, November 5, 2023....
Story by Lance Cpl. Ashley Corbo | Marine Forces Reserve (MARFORRES) | 10.19.2023
CAMP ATTERBURY, Indiana – A Marine Innovation Unit (MIU) representative observed a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers demonstration of automated additive construction techniques at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, October 19, 2023....
Story by Lance Cpl. Ashley Corbo | Marine Forces Reserve (MARFORRES) | 05.26.2023
Reserve Marines with Defensive Cyberspace Operations-Internal Defensive Measures (DCO-IDM) Companies A and B, 6th Communication Battalion and Marine Innovation Unit (MIU) participated in Cyber Yankee at Camp Net, CT, May 14-28, 2023.Cyber Yankee is a force-on-force regional, joint-service exercise that simulates a nation launching a cyber-attack on public utilities. This exercise gave Reserve......
Story by 1st Lt. Kevin Stapleton | Marine Forces Reserve (MARFORRES) | 05.05.2023
NEWBURGH, N.Y. – In accordance with the 38th Commandant’s Planning Guidance and Force Design 2030, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Reserve formally activated the Marine Innovation Unit (MIU) during an activation ceremony at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, New York, on Friday, May 5, 2023....
Story by Lance Cpl. Sixto Castro | 2nd Marine Logistics Group | 07.01.2022
STEWART AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, N.Y. – U.S. Marines with II MEF Innovation Campus, staffed by service members with 2nd Marine Logistics Group, recently hosted a level one and two additive manufacturing basic course for Marines with Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron (MALS) 49, Marine Aircraft Group 49, 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, New York, June......
Story by Lance Cpl. Ashley Corbo | Marine Forces Reserve (MARFORRES) | 06.24.2022
(Camp Nett, Connecticut) -- Cyber warfare is defined as the use of computer technology to disrupt the activities of a state or organization, especially the deliberate attack or defense of information systems for strategic or military purposes. If a successful cyber-attack was directed at a power utility grid, it would have the ability to cut off electricity and running water. In response to......
