A sign is seen before a checkpoint at Quantico Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia on September 29, 2025. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
An instructor with Expeditionary Operations Training Group, I Marine Expeditionary Force, engages targets from a U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk assigned to Bravo Company, 1-140th Aviation Regiment, during Advanced Sniper Course 25-2 hosted by EOTG, I MEF, on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Sept. 19, 2025. ASC is designed to train personnel in the marksmanship skills necessary to provide sniper support to expeditionary operations. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Oliver Nisbet)
Hung Cao, nominee to serve as under secretary of the Navy, attends his Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing in Dirksen building on Thursday, June 26, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images)
A rendering of what someone using the new Project Overmatch capability known as Maven would look like. A unified tactical display that provides insight on vessels across the world, the Maven program overlays real-time ship readiness and sustainment data right at the user’s fingertips by utilizing artificial intelligence. It was created by Project Overmatch and Palantir in collaboration. (Image found on DVIDS as stock photo courtesy of Palantir)
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif., (August 20, 2025) U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Eric M. Smith, left, the 39th Commandant of the Marine Corps, speaks with Capt. Alexander Beal, assigned to Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity (MCTSSA) Commanding Officer, during a visit to the MCTSSA compound on Aug. 20, 2025. Gen. Smith was briefed on MCTSSA’s pivotal role in Project Dynamis, primarily focused on testing, experimentation, and prototyping of CJADC2 (Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control) capabilities. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Joseph R. Vincent, CTR/Released)
A woman walks under a sign of big data analytics US software company Palantir at their stand ahead of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on May 22, 2022. (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)
The technology will enhance intelligence, targeting and decision-making for joint fires integration, according to Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith.
Service members assigned to U.S. Marine Corps Expeditionary Warfare School, Marine Corps University, run during Leadership Decision Making Exercise I at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, Aug. 22, 2025. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Capt. Colton Martin)
U.S. Marine Corps Capt. David Whalen, assigned to the Marine Innovation Unit (MIU), Marine Forces Reserve, works on developing a “Flight Mode” software feature at the Marine Corps Software Factory (MCSWF) in Austin, Texas, 17 – 29 March, 2025. (U.S.Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Orion Stpierre)