ARMY AL&T
“This is a monumental undertaking, and it requires a new level of integra- tion and synchronization,” said COL John Wendel, Project Manager Infantry Brigade Combat Team, part of Program Executive Office (PEO) Integration. “The purpose is to seek efficiencies and synergies. The idea of combining events forces integration, so what we will do is synchronize the technologies into a singular network brigade formation.”
The first four weeks of the exercise, slated for this June with the 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division at Fort Bliss, TX, adjacent to White Sands, will include the concurrent LUTs.
“If you combine the events, you are going to get better answers that cut across programs, systems, and agencies. It will also make us more agile going forward,” Wendel said.
An Integrated Network The last two weeks of the INBE will include an exercise aimed at synchro- nizing the systems into an integrated combat network. The idea is to facili- tate a series of annual evaluations that will serve to expedite the developmental process and better inform the Army’s tactical network acquisition decisions.
“By beginning to conduct exercises that look at an integrated network, the Army intends to lessen the in-field integration burden on our operational units by providing relevant operational environments in which to evaluate new technologies and capabilities that make up capability packages and sets, prior to fielding the new systems to operational units. This will ensure that the important integration work is done upfront,” said Paul Mehney, PEO Integration spokesman.
Having the Army incrementally develop network technologies best suited to serve Soldiers in combat is designed to combine Army Programs of Record with commercial-off-the-shelf solutions
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If you combine the events, you are going to get better answers that cut across programs, systems, and agencies. It will also make us more agile going forward.
from industry. The desired result is an affordable, technologically mature tactical network that can move combat- relevant information across the force in real time, using high-bandwidth wave- forms such as Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW) and Wideband Networking Waveform (WNW), Wendel said.
“In the past, we have spent years build- ing requirements and products. Now we will conduct these evaluations every year, testing technologies from indus- try and Programs of Record to gain some economies of scale and make smarter acquisition decisions on a more frequent basis. The important part is
transitioning these objective waveforms to Programs of Record,” Wendel added.
The systems undergoing LUTs are:
• Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Ground Mobile Radio, a multi-channel, vehicle-mounted, software-programmable radio able to transmit voice, video, data, and images using high-bandwidth wave- forms such as SRW and WNW.
• JTRS Hand-held Manpack Small Form Fit, a multi-channel, Soldier- mounted, software-programmable radio with the same transmission capabilities as the Ground Mobile Radio.
A Tactical Communications Node vehicle (right) and a generator were among the assets used in the WIN-T Increment 2 Limited User Test at Fort Stewart, GA, in March 2009. (U.S. Army photo by Jason Bock, PEO C3T.)
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