15 May 2025

Marine Corps releases AI implementation plan

Jon Harper

U.S. Marines with Maritime Raid Force, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, prepare to launch JaiaBot unmanned underwater vehicles during reconnaissance beach survey training as part of MEU Exercise at Kin Blue Beach Training Area, Okinawa, Japan, May 6, 2025. The Marines conducted the training to ensure dive proficiency and further enhance amphibious reconnaissance skills by utilizing drones to locate the optimal crossing point in the water enabling rapid and safe crossing. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Alora Finigan)

Marine Corps officials unveiled the service’s new artificial intelligence implementation plan, laying out timelines for achieving key objectives and milestones for digital transformation.

Lt. Gen. Melvin “Jerry” Carter, deputy commandant for information, approved the 57-page document April 23 and it was recently published. The plan was developed following last year’s release of the Corps’ AI strategy.

The service sees artificial intelligence capabilities as transformative technologies to “enhance decision advantage in the evolving landscape of modern warfare,” officials noted.

The AI implementation plan includes objectives and tasks related to five strategic goals.
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Tactical innovation is one of the main objectives related to achieving the goal of “mission alignment.”

No later than March 2026, the implementation plan directs the deputy commandant for information (DC I) in coordination with the deputy commandant for combat development and integration, to “develop a use case process that captures, assesses, and prioritizes concepts for the application of AI from across the warfighting functions, and at all echelons, to implement targeted actions” as well as “identify major roadblocks in policy, workforce, and infrastructure that have a large impact on innovation and acceleration of AI implementation to mitigate through change.”

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