AXE is mindful of future threats through close collaboration with the Cunningham Group, ensuring that aviation expeditionary capabilities and systems evolve to meet future threats guaranteeing their relevancy to support the future force.  AXE provides the critical enablers that will allow Marine aviation to thrive at sea and in forward, isolated, austere locations while fully integrating into the Naval Expeditionary and Joint Networks.  AXE enablers will ensure the MAGTF can perform the six functions of Marine Aviation within the competition continuum against a peer adversary. To that end, AXE will provide life cycle management of the ACE’s critical aviation enabling assets by supporting the development of essential capabilities, training, organization and sustainment in order to support distributed Marine, Naval, and Joint Forces in bringing firepower to bear against the adversary.