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Commandant of the Marine Corps (CMC) Office of Net Assessment (ONA) provides long-term comparative assessments of trends, key competitions, risks, opportunities, and future prospects of United States Marine Corps roles and missions in order to support strategic decision making for the CMC and Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps (ACMC).
The CMC ONA originated from the April 2021 Force Design Annual Update and is directed by CMC signed Charter on 29 April 2022 to conduct long-range planning and comprehensive assessments to inform the Commandant’s strategic-level decisions about the future Marine Corps Enterprise. The office reached an initial operating capability on 18 July 2022.
CMC ONA is directed to conduct a “Blue and Red Net Assessment” against our pacing threat, and its relationship with our adversaries, 12-30 years in the future in order to define the evolving strategic problem set and assess Service-level strategies. The focus will be on supporting the Title-X decision making for CMC. The CMC ONA will: (1) consider the range of future strategic and operational environments, (2) test assumptions, (3) diagnose Blue and Red vulnerabilities and opportunities, (4) diagnose Joint Concepts and how the Marine Corps is nested, (5) inform CMC’s strategic guidance and concept developers.
Formal Net Assessment to incoming Commandants to inform Commandant’s Planning Guidance
Annual updates to Net Assessment
CMC directed briefings and reports
Situational awareness for CMC through robust liaison across the Services, DoD, and the Interagency
Assess Service-level strategies