The document discusses the future of air-ground integration and preparing the Marine Corps for the "high end fight". It emphasizes equipping Marines with 5th generation aircraft, long range tiltrotors, multi-mission platforms, and continual upgrades. It also stresses maneuvering air and sea bases, utilizing every platform as a sensor, shooter, sharer, and network node. The goal is to make the Marine Corps ready for the next conflict, not the last one, and to take advantage of disruptive technologies like tiltrotors that enable more flexible basing options.

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Next Generation Air-Surface
Integration-Ground Perspective
Lieutenant General Jon “Dog” Davis, USMC
Deputy Commandant for Aviation

2. “The true role of infantry is to maneuver with the maximum
possible protection of mechanical resources, in the form of
guns, machine guns, tanks, mortars and aircraft – to advance
with as little impediment as possible, to be relieved as far as
possible of the obligation to FIGHT their way forward”
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Air-Ground Integration

3. Preparing for the Future
• Prepare for the High End Fight
• Maneuvering air and sea bases
• Equip the Marine
Ø Build a 5th Generation Force
Ø Tilt-rotors…
Ø Multi-mission everything
Ø Spiral Upgrades
Ø Every Platform a Sensor, Shooter, Sharer (Connector), Node
• Educate, Train, Fly, Integrate…and plan to fight hurt
• Partner…no better friend
• Ensure that we are the worst enemy
• Make ourselves ready for the next fight, not the last one
• Ride the dragon of change – don’t get eaten by it

4. Prepare for the high end fight…

5. Maneuvering Sea Bases…

6. • STOVL provides combatant
commanders with more flexible basing
options:
Ø There are 10X as many 3,000 foot
runways available as 8,000 foot
runways worldwide
Ø 3,000 to 4,000 foot expeditionary
“STOVL-only” runways can be built in
a matter of days to replace damaged
facilities or create new ones
10000’ Runways 4000’ Runways8000’ Runways 3000’ Runways
Pacific
AfricaAfrica
Pacific
Kandahar AB,
Afghanistan 2006
Camp Bastion,
Afghanistan 2009
Iraq 2003
highway FARP
FARP Dwyer,
Afghanistan 2010
Maneuvering Bases Ashore…

7. The importance of Marine Aviation – sea and
land based -- to the naval and joint campaign
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Naval Cooperation
An Unsinkable Carrier Ashore

8. Equipping the Marine…
not manning the equipment

9. Disruptive Technologies
Equip the Man….

10. 3000 miles:
Spain to
South Sudan
2300 miles: Spain
to
Equatorial Guinea
MEU Digital Interoperability
CDL: Full Motion Video
Link-16: air/surface tracks
ANW2: PLI/Chat/Image
TTNT: High volume data
SATCOM Voice or HPW
WiFi tablets
RFID: Pax accountability
SPMAGTF-CR-AF Today:
SIPR on the Move
- KC-130J SATCOM:
SIPR w/text, images
Special Purpose MAGTF – Crisis Response
(SPMAGTF-CR) is becoming a high profile task force
for the Marine Corps. Our SPMAGTFs, and our MEUs,
are built around operational agility, and are highly
dependent upon aviation. As an example, the
SPMAGTF in Moron, Spain can reach across the
Mediterranean to the seven countries in the North
African littoral, and beyond…and they are staged and
ready to move entirely by Osprey and the KC-130J (or
joint tankers).
The impact and potential of
Tiltrotor Aircraft

11. Future…

12. Multi-mission everything
Harvest Hawk KC-130J

13. Multi-mission everything
MV-22B “Osprey”

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Making the Most of What You Have
Spiral Upgrades

15. Every platform a SENSOR, every platform a SHOOTER, every platform a SHARE/
CONNECTOR, and every platform an EW NODE

16. Way Ahead
• Equip the Marine
Ø 5th gen aircraft
Ø Long Range Tiltrotors
– Manned and unmanned
Ø Multi-mission everything
Ø Spiral upgrade
• Maneuvering air and sea-bases
• Every platform a sensor, shooter, sharer, network, node
• Make ourselves ready for the next fight – not the last one
Ø No better friend … no worse enemy
• Ride the dragon of change…never give up

17. Questions?

18. Distributed Electronic Warfare