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U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Ram Francis, a data systems administrator with Headquarters Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, from San Francisco, monitors network traffic and activity on Fort Pickett, Virginia, Feb. 6, 2022. Working as a data systems administrator provides Francis, a computer science student, with hands-on experience working with gear that he wouldn't have access to outside of the Marine Corps. - U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Ram Francis, a data systems administrator with Headquarters Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, from San Francisco, monitors network traffic and activity on Fort Pickett, Virginia, Feb. 6, 2022. Working as a data systems administrator provides Francis, a computer science student, with hands-on experience working with gear that he wouldn't have access to outside of the Marine Corps.

Preparing for future battlefields: MARCORSYSCOM drives Marine Corps Enterprise Network modernization efforts

Marine Corps Systems Command recently launched the Technical Management and Analysis Directorate – or TMAD – in a drive to modernize the Marine Corps Enterprise Network, or MCEN. The MCEN is an interconnected “network-of-networks” that links service personnel, architecture, processes, physical and logical topology, and cyber operations. In line with the Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. David H. Berger’s Planning Guidance – which underscores the need for enterprise IT engineering and the fundamental importance of meeting peer competitors on a complex future battlefield – the move further supports the commandant’s Force Design 2030 goals...

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The Marine Corps is improving its enterprise network to meet the commandant’s vision, address cybersecurity threats and prepare for the future fight. - The Marine Corps is improving its enterprise network to meet the commandant’s vision, address cybersecurity threats and prepare for the future fight.

MCSC launches Task Force to modernize IT network

The Marine Corps is improving its enterprise network to meet the commandant’s vision, address cybersecurity threats and prepare for the future fight. Marine Corps Systems Command recently activated Task Force Aquila—a team of technical experts tasked with modernizing the Marine Corps Enterprise Network. The MCEN is an interconnected network of networks comprising people, processes, logical and physical infrastructure, architecture, topology and cyberspace operations...

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U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Juliet Calvin, the commanding officer of 1st Network Battalion, Marine Corps Cyberspace Operations Group, conducts a walkthrough of the battalion workspaces at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, June 4, 2020. 1st Network Bn., the first of six new Marine Corps network units, was created to improve oversight, command, and control of the Marine Corps enterprise network while managing building and local area networks around base. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Donald Holbert) - U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Juliet Calvin, the commanding officer of 1st Network Battalion, Marine Corps Cyberspace Operations Group, conducts a walkthrough of the battalion workspaces at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, June 4, 2020. 1st Network Bn., the first of six new Marine Corps network units, was created to improve oversight, command, and control of the Marine Corps enterprise network while managing building and local area networks around base. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Donald Holbert)

Marine Corps Activates New Battalion to Fight in Cyberspace

An impactful change to Marine Corps cyberspace and information technology modernization occurred on June 4, 2020, aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, with the activation of 1st Network Battalion, which marked the beginning of the Marine Corps Enterprise Network Command and Control modernization implementation plan. During the ceremony, Lt. Col. Juliet H. Calvin took command of the Marine Corps’ newest battalion and made history as the first Marine to command a unit of this type, which will ensure a resilient network that enables mission execution in the face of persistent cyber threats...

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