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The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory/Futures Directorate examines future operating environments to generate threat-informed operating concepts and capabilities and, through experimentation, provides analytically supported recommendations to inform future force design and development activities.

Phone: (571) 254-7310/12

Phone: (571) 254-7312

Email: mcwl_pao2@usmc.mil

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