Marine Corps aviation plan outlines a three-FYDP modernization strategy with shift in operational focus

By Nick Wilson / February 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The Marine Corps published a new Aviation Plan today, presenting a modernization roadmap dubbed "Project Eagle" which spans the next three future years defense programs -- 15 years in total -- and aims to improve readiness and field new technologies to support operational concepts tied to the service's broader force design pivot. The new plan prioritizes distributed aviation operations (DAO) and decision-centric aviation operations (DCAO), two concepts tailored to support stand-in forces conducting distributed maritime operations (DMO) and expeditionary advanced...

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