MCO 4700.4A governs Marine Corps policy for integrating advanced manufacturing technologies across specified equipment, systems, and ammunition.
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MCO 4700.4A defines advanced manufacturing as including additive and subtractive manufacturing, welding, microfabrication, and digital engineering and manufacturing. It requires decentralized capabilities, technical data packages and license rights, documented business processes, and cataloging and requisitioning processes.
Applies to: This Order applies to all ground equipment, unmanned vehicles and systems (UxS), additive and expeditionary construction, and forms of ground-based ammunition.
The Marine Corps’ network of AdvM capabilities enables commanders to rapidly repair battle-damaged equipment and replace attritable systems in order to sustain offensive action and mitigate logistical constraints. (paragraph 1)
The Marine Corps’ network of AdvM capabilities serves as hubs of innovation, using rapid prototyping to develop and field solutions to defeat emergent threats or take advantage of a newly discovered critical vulnerability. (paragraph 2)
The use of limited rights or non-public commercial data to verify the technical data developed through reverse engineering is prohibited.
Provides the ability to trace AdvM manufactured parts back to the installed end item as data is connected to the service request and serial number of the item.