The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory (MCWL) marks its 30th anniversary in 2025, commemorating its establishment in 1995. The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory/Futures Directorate examines future operating environments to generate threat-informed operating concepts and capabilities and, through experimentation, provides analytically supported recommendations to inform future force design and development activities. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Kevin Ray J. Salvador)
Under the leadership of the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory the Joint First-Person View Working Group has succeeded in adding the Neros Archer FPV drone to the Blue UAS List marking the first time an FPV drone has achieved this status, a significant milestone not just for the Marine Corps but for the entire DoD.
The U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory/Futures Directorate (MCLW/FD) has signed an agreement with MD5, the National Security Technology Accelerator, to help advance readiness for future threats to forces of the United States.
The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory/Futures Directorate is tasked, by the Commandant, to identify future challenges and opportunities, develop warfighting concepts, and comprehensively explore options available to the warfighter, in order to inform the combat development process to meet the challenges of the future operating environment.
