ARMY AL&T


“The network is now the Army’s highest modernization priority. Having every Soldier plugged into the tactical network and giving them means to access and distribute information would give the Army a tremendous advantage [over our adversaries],” Chiarelli said.


In the past, the Army fielded network systems independently and on their own acquisition timelines, said COL John Morrison, Director, G-3/5/7 Land- WarNet. The Army’s new approach is to leverage mature technologies through integrated network “capability sets” aligned with Army Force Generation requirements, whereby equipment is delivered and synchronized to deploying forces, Morrison added.


The most important component of the strategy is to deploy network capability sets that will provide an integrated, seamless network capability, from a tactical operations center, to the commander on the move, to the dismounted Soldier, Morrison explained. Beginning in FY12, the Army will align resources to field these capability sets to as many deploying or available formations as possible.


Exercises and Evaluations With these goals in mind, the U.S. Army plans a series of network developmental exercises and evaluations this summer at Fort Bliss, TX, and White Sands Missile Range, to examine technologies and integrate multiple programs into a larger tactical network capable of transmitting voice, data, images, and video faster, farther, and more efficiently across the force in real


CW5 Leslie Cornwall (left) and MAJ Marcus Odom from the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command Capabilities Manager Networks and Services examine Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) equipment during the WIN-T Increment 2 Engineering Field Test at Fort Huachuca, AZ, in December 2008. (U.S. Army photo by Richard Mattox, Program Executive Office Command, Control, and Communications-Tactical.)


time, service officials said (See related article, Page 25).


This large-scale evaluation “gives us the line-of-sight challenges that we need to deal with, and the distance that we have to deal with,” said MG Keith C. Walker, Commanding General of the Brigade Modernization Command at the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command’s Army Capabilities Integration Center. “The priority for our testing is the network,” Walker said, speaking during a panel discus- sion Feb. 24 on “Network-Enabled Mission Command” at the Association of the United States Army Institute of


By integrating Programs of Record and


non-Programs of Record, the Army is striving to extend a robust network down to the dismounted Soldier, thus providing key situational awareness and mission command at the platoon and company levels.


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Land Warfare’s Winter Symposium and Exposition in Fort Lauderdale, FL.


By integrating Programs of Record and non-Programs of Record, the Army is striving to extend a robust network down to the dismounted Soldier, thus providing key situational awareness and mission command at the platoon and company levels. The idea is for a terrestrial tactical network using non- proprietary high-bandwidth waveforms such as Soldier Radio Waveform and Wideband Networking Waveform, a mobile satellite network such as Warfighter Information Network- Tactical, and various battle command applications to work seamlessly as part of a broader battlefield network, con- necting dismounted Soldiers, command posts, and vehicles on the move.


To help meet the challenge of depen- dent, synchronized network engineering and integration, the Army will conduct synchronized network test and evalu- ations, helping to align Programs of


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