The Marine Corps’ 4 priorities in the information environment

Marine Corps Deputy Commandant for Information Lt. Gen. Lori Reynolds said modernizing the service’s network will be the first of her four priorities in 2020.

“Our first priority (...) is this whole idea of assured enterprise command and control — so all the work that we’re doing [is] to build and fight a modernized network,” Reynolds told reporters at a media availability Jan. 3.

That effort will include adopting artificial intelligence, incorporating a more mobile cloud and possibly bringing software developers into the Marine Corps.

“We’re doing a lot of work on getting ourselves organized for a modernized network. How do we think about maneuvering the network in a contested environment? So I think our [communications] community has a lot of work ahead of it to kind of just think differently about how we train, how we organize. I think we’ll see changes to our [communications] formations given force design,” Reynolds said. “There’s a lot of work that we have to do.”

Reynolds oversees operations in the information environment, including cyber, electronic warfare and signals intelligence. She held a media availability Jan. 3 to discuss the recently created Marine Expeditionary Force Information Groups (MIGs) and her goals for the coming year.