These Marine-generated tech ideas are becoming prototypes for actual field use

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"WASHINGTON ― Marines across the force are feeding “fix it” ideas to a Navy research office, which has produced items such as field-ready hydrogen fuel production and a “chatbot” that can filter relevant items in digital reams of chat data for information operations.

The Office of Naval Research shared these prototypes and others, generated from ideas sent directly from Marines in operating units on Tuesday at the 2022 Modern Day Marine exposition in Washington, D.C."...