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The Marines Have a New Nerve Center for Fighting With Cheap Drones
The Marine Corps created MCRIG and a counter-drone team to speed how battlefield drone lessons become training. Maj. Gen. Clingan said Marines struggled with drones in a field exercise.
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The Marine Corps is creating two new teams to speed up how battlefield drone lessons reach training for the force. The first, the Marine Corps Robotics Integration Group (MCRIG), will serve as the hub for turning lessons from drone and counter-drone operations into standardized training, according to a press release from Training and Education Command.
The second team, the Marine Corps Counter Drone Team, will test new counter-drone technologies and tactics. It is a defensive counterpart to the offensive drone team the service created last year.
Lt. Gen. Benjamin Watson, who oversees Training and Education Command, told Business Insider earlier this year that the Corps wanted to "pressurize the learning" in the counter-drone space as fast as it had in the drone operations space.
The goal is to move faster from experimentation – done within the two teams – to training across units before Marines deploy.