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Unit Level Ammunition Status (ULAS)

The Unit Level Ammunition Status (ULAS) tool was funded by the Department of the Navy (DoN) eBusiness Operations Office as a technology innovation initiative promoted by the Program Manager for Ammunition (PMAM), Marine Corps Systems Command (MARCORSYSCOM).

The DoN eBusiness Office is a self-described DoN venture capitalist, focused on short-term (less than 120 day) projects with significant potential for identifying or exploiting new or emerging technologies that can address DoN deficiencies. PMAM identified the ULAS capability as a candidate venture to address USMC and Joint Munitions reporting deficiencies identified during Operation Enduring Freedom.

ULAS was conceived, designed and executed specifically as a marriage of technologies that created conditions for each echelon of command to establish and maintain situational awareness of their respective ammunition status. Its primary role was to provide near real time asset visibility of ammunition that has been issued to operating force units from ammunition supply activities.

As a derivative capability the ULAS also collects and reports sufficient data that the senior Marine Commander can use to accurately produce the daily Munitions Status Report, or MUREP (when activated), that is required by the Unified Combatant Commander (formerly CINC).

The ULAS project, for a multitude of reasons, enjoyed progressively greater visibility as it matured towards the proof of concept. Briefings were presented to

  • DoD AIT Program Office
  • Joint Staff J-4 representatives
  • II MEF staff
  • CG I MEF (nominated as next CMC)
  • MARFORPAC Experimentation Center
  • MARFORPAC G-4 staff
  • DoN CIO
  • HQMC (I&L)
  • British Royal Marine Liaison to Marine Corps Warfighting Lab (MCWL)
  • MCWL Reps
  • PM-C4I for MARCORSYSCOM
  • DoD CIO

ULAS was published in the January 2003 edition of the Marine Corps Gazette.

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