Marine Corps Warfighting Lab Archives

A U.S. Marine with III Marine Expeditionary Force familiarizes himself with maneuvering drones during the Marine Corps Attack Drone Competition on Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Japan, Dec. 7, 2025. During a two-week period, the Marine Corps Attack Drone Team trained and certified 3rd Marine Division Marines as attack drone operators, attack drone instructor, and payload specialist instructors, increasing the Division’s lethality and capacity of trained and certified attack drone operators and instructors. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Joaquin Dela Torre)

Marine Corps seeks troops with small drone and AI expertise for warfighting lab fellowship

The solicitation for nominations was released Friday via a MARADMIN message.

Feb 9, 2026 By Jon Harper

Marines to get new drone-killing microwave weapon designed for expeditionary ops

The Leonidas Expeditionary system is being developed for the Expeditionary Directed Energy Counter-Swarm (ExDECS) initiative.

Sep 23, 2024 By Jon Harper

A U.S. Marine with 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment, 3rd Marine Division uses an unmanned aircraft system during Marine Air-Ground Task Force Warfighting Exercise (MWX) 2-23 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, Feb. 23, 2023. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Ryan Kennelly)

Marine Corps Warfighting Lab experiments to ‘sense and make sense’ of littoral environments

Over the last 18 months, the lab has conducted a range of experiments with the 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment and other "stand-in forces" to refine operational concepts…

Jun 27, 2023 By Brandi Vincent