The Marine Corps tested the Autonomous Low-Profile Vessel (ALPV) during exercise Resolute Dragon 2025 (RD25), in Okinawa, Japan and surrounding outlying islands, Sept., 2025. The ALPV is an autonomous logistics delivery system that can be configured to deliver multiple variations of supplies and equipment throughout the littorals.
RD25 is an annual bilateral exercise across Japan, including the Southwest Islands, that strengthens the command control and multi-domain maneuver capabilities of the U.S. Marine Corps and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's Western Army personnel with a focus on controlling and defending key maritime terrain.
(U.S. Marine Corps video by Connor Taggart)
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.
