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Marine Coders featured in Marine Corps Gazette

In Force Design 2030, Commandant Berger identifies an imperative requirement to modernize the force, Future Marines will possess ... the intellectual and technical skills required to innovate, adapt, and succeed in the rapidly changing 21st century operating environment.” In a technology-dominated operating environment, automation is essential to mission success. The Russian war with Ukraine produced software applications enabling decentralized targeting and automated alerting. Innovation through automation provides a leaner, increasingly efficient, and effective fighting force. The requisite technical infrastructure and software lifecycle process do not currently exist to enable Marines across the force to effectively automate solutions to current and future problems. What infrastructure and processes should be developed to enable the development of automation within the Marine Corps?

Check out Marine Coders featured in the August issue of the Marine Corps Gazette, article by Major David "Skip" McGee !

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MIU Marine Coders FY23 Part 2

Join MIU Marine Coders (reserve opportunity only) and contribute to critical missions as a software developer, data architect, or designer!

The application now consists of two parts:

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  1. Apply at the link above and select ILB- software and data for the "What is your preference for Branch / role in the unit?" drop down
  2. An email with supplemental documents (Note: the application is not complete and will not be considered without both parts)
Applications accepted through 21 May 2023 2359 PDT
  • MIU Talent Board: June 2023
  • Board Results Notification: 30 June 2023
  • If selected, you will be expected to join MIU NLT 31 July 2023 (*exceptions may be required)
  • If selected, there will be two opportunities for a virtual onboarding prior to attending August training session.
  • Attend in-person onboarding and training from 17-20 August 2023, including travel, at the MIU Home Training Center (HTC) in Newburgh, NY.

Marine Innovation Unit Activation

Marine Coders is honored to be a part of the amazing and talented team at the Marine Innovation Unit. The Marine Innovation Unit was formally activated on May 5, 2023 at the Stewart Air National Guard Base, in Newburgh, New York.

New Marine Coders Website

Marine Coders is happy to announce the second version of the Marine Coders website! We moved away from the Ruby and Jekyll site to Python and MkDocs for a better development experience. We hope that this new website with its integration, extensibility and style brings our community and developers a better experience.

MIU Marine Coders FY23 Recruiting - Reserves

Join MIU Marine Coders (reserve opportunity only) and contribute to critical missions as a software developer, data architect, or designer!

FY23 Applications are open through 11 November 2022

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Apply Now

The application now consists of two parts:
  1. Apply at the link above and select ILB-Software Data for the "What is your third preference for Branch / role in the unit?" drop down
  2. An email with supplemental documents (Note: the application is not complete and will not be considered without both parts)
Application window: 17 Oct 22 through 11 Nov 22 (2359ET)
  • MIU Talent Board: 17-20 Nov 22
  • Board Results Notification: no later than 2 Dec 22
  • If selected, they will be expected to join MIU NLT 15 January 2023,
  • Attend one virtual ½-day training session be ready for AT: 21 Jan 2023, 1000-1400ET (Saturday) or 24 Jan 2023, 1900-2300ET (Tuesday)
  • Attend annual training, likely in Quantico, VA, from 5-12 March 2023 (including travel)

MIU Partnership Rebranding

Marine Coders Rebrand

Marine Coders is excited to announce that it has officially partnered with Marine Innovation Unit (MIU) to form the MIU Marine Coders.

Uniformed Developer Phoenix Cast

Checkout the latest Phoenix Cast that highlights great work from uniformed developers and advocates for professionalizing capability development in the United States Marine Corps!

Marine Coder Innovation Challenge DVIDS Article

Marine Coder LCpl Crum with Gen Matos, CIO, USMC

Brig. Gen. Joseph Matos, Director, Information, Command, Control Communications and Computers (IC4) presents an award to members of the I MEF Coding Team as the victor of the inaugural Micro-Application Development Innovation Challenge at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., Aug. 27, 2021.

DVIDS just released an article highlighting the 20+ Active Duty Marine Coders that participated in the 2021 Micro-Application Innovation Challenge.

I Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) Coding Team's readiness application was selected the winner of the inaugural Micro-Application Development Innovation Challenge formally announced via MARADMIN number 600/21, Oct. 19, 2021.

Marine Coder Innovation Challenge Winner

We are excited to announce that I MEF and their GCCS Reconciliation Tool (GROOT) is the winner of the 2021 Marine Coder Innovation Challenge!

The competition was tough and picking a winner was a very difficult for the voting panel. II MEF's Command Data Visualization Tool and III MEF's Marine Logistics Planning Tool (MLPT) put up a great fight. Checkout MARADMIN 600/21 for more details. GROOT is live and can be accessed via CAC at https://groot.apps.stg.mach9.usmc.mil/

Marine Coder Innovation Challenge Voting Panel Day

Today marks the completion of the 2021 Marine Coder Innovation Challenge! The three MEF teams will brief the enterprise voting panel this morning, and a challenge winner will be selected!

A huge thank you to all that supported the challenge throughout the 4 months, to include but not limited to: * DC I C4 for their sponsorship of the initiative

Marine Coder Innovation Challenge Proposal Selection

Four projects were selected for further development in the Marine Corps Business Operations Support Services (MCBOSS) accredited DevSecOps environment!

The selected proposals are: * I MEF: GCCS Reconciliation Tool * II MEF: Command Data Visualization Tool * III MEF: REDONKULATOR Logistics Planning Tool * MARFORRES: Predictive Maintenance Operations

Each MEF team will begin a 90 day development evolution where they will learn how to: * Plan and execute agile software development methodology * Achieve an Authority to Operate (ATO) through the Risk Management Framework (RMF) methodology * Use Git Flow and Trunk Based Development to effectively build and collaborate on a product as a team * Leverage a Platform as a Service (PaaS) to build containerized apps using a DevSecOps pipeline * Build a web hosted static site! * And much more!

Marine Coders Association of Marine Corps Logisticians Brief

Check out Marine Coders presentation to the Association of Marine Corps Logisticians! This was a great opportunity to share the Marine Coders vision with the Association of Marine Corps Logisticians. Good overall discussion focusing on the importance of software and how to enable a "software engineering micro-capability" at commands to improve mission with software tools, training, DevSecOps environments, and data!

Naval Letter Hackathon

Marine Coders hosted its second hackathon to finalize the Naval Letter Format Generator Minimum Viable Product (MVP). A team of (4) active duty Marines and (1) U.S. Citizen accomplished the following:

Naval Letter Hackathon

Marine Coders hosted its first hackathon to produce a Naval Letter Format Generator Minimum Viable Product (MVP). A team of (5) active duty Marines developed the application in a day's work using Github, video teleconferencing, and Platform One's Mattermost Chat service to enable remote collaboration.