Marine Corps Operational Test and Evaluation Activity (MCOTEA) is the independent Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) authority for the U.S. Marine Corps. MCOTEA plans, executes, and evaluates testing of material solutions against warfighter capabilities, under prescribed realistic conditions and doctrine, to determine Operational Effectiveness, Operational Suitability, and Operational Survivability (OE/OS/OSur) of all new equipment for the Corps in support of its acquisition process. MCOTEA is based at Marine Corps Base Quantico

Marine Corps Base Quantico

Marine Corps Base Quantico, sometimes abbreviated MCB Quantico, is a major United States Marine Corps training base located near Triangle, Virginia, covering nearly in southern Prince William County, northern Stafford County, and southeastern Fauquier County...

. Unlike most Marine Corps organizations MCOTEA has a Director instead of a Commander. The current Director, MCOTEA is Col Arthur J. Pasagian.

Organization

• Chief of Test
• Combat Support Systems Division
• Fiscal Section
• Expeditionary Division
• Ground Division
• Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF)
  Marine Air-Ground Task Force
  The Marine Air-Ground Task Force is a term used by the United States Marine Corps to describe the principal organization for all missions across the range of military operations. MAGTFs are a balanced air-ground, combined arms task organization of Marine Corps forces under a single commander that...
  
   Command & Control/Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C2/C4ISR)
• Office of the Scientific Advisor
• S-1 HR & Administration
• S-2 Science & Technology
• S-3 Operations
• S-4 Logistics
• S-5 Future Operations/Change Management

See also

• Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E)
  Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E)
  The Director, Operational Test and Evaluation is the principal staff assistant and adviser to the Secretary of Defense on operational and live fire test and evaluation activities involving U.S...
  
  
• Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC)
• Office of Naval Research (ONR)
  Office of Naval Research
  The Office of Naval Research , headquartered in Arlington, Virginia , is the office within the United States Department of the Navy that coordinates, executes, and promotes the science and technology programs of the U.S...
  
  
• U.S. Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center (AFOTEC)
  Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center
  Located at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center is a direct reporting unit of Headquarters, United States Air Force...
  
  
• U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (TECOM)
• Operational Test and Evaluation Force (OPTEVFOR) - U.S. Navy
• U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
  United States Naval Research Laboratory
  The United States Naval Research Laboratory is the corporate research laboratory for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps and conducts a program of scientific research and development. NRL opened in 1923 at the instigation of Thomas Edison...
  
  

MCOTEA publishes a magazine known as the MCOTEA Journal.

External links

• Official Web Site