WITH RESPECT TO MISSION COMMAND, OUR SHORT-TERM GOAL IS TO COMPLETE THE ARMY’S TRANSITION FROM STAND-ALONE MISSION COMMAND SYSTEMS TO AN INTEGRATED, WEB-BASED ENVIRONMENT THAT DELIVERS POWERFUL WARFIGHTING SYSTEMS AS USER-FRIENDLY “WIDGETS,” OR APPS, MERGED WITH THE COMMON OPERATING PICTURE OF THE BATTLEFIELD.
information Soldiers use the most, store it locally and automatically provide access to it without using additional bandwidth.
actively pursuing such capabilities for the Army. Joint Battle Command – Platform, the successor to JCR that begins fielding later this year, takes several steps in the right direction with touch-to-zoom maps, a Google Earth-like interface, and drag- and-drop icons.
In the longer term, that is, the time frame for NaN, the human-machine interface will mature further to augment Siri-like technologies with JARVIS, a capability that acts like a “digital tactical butler” inside mission command systems. JAR- VIS will remember a system operator’s patterns and provide needed information, analyses and recommendations without the need for constant commands.
ON-DEMAND NETWORKING Unlike the mission command systems that various personnel use throughout a brigade, the transport side of the network can be largely invisible to all but a few sig- nal Soldiers. But the progress of Warfighter Information Network – Tactical (WIN- T), radio waveforms and other transport avenues is just as critical to successful modernization, to provide the Soldier the freedom to attach to whatever network is available to achieve his mission.
Te road map for advantaged services transport focuses on increasing capacity through solutions that provide alterna- tives to satellite communications, thus reducing network latency and cost. From
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A Soldier from the 2nd BCT, 101st Airborne Division uses a Nett Warrior device to communicate at the JRTC in November 2013. STARNet and the NaN will use standardized maps, messaging and icons to provide a unified, familiar experience, from smartphones to vehicles to command posts. (Photo courtesy of JRTC Operations Group Public Affairs)
“tropos,” tropospheric scatter technolo- gies that transmit and receive microwave signals through the lowest portion of the Earth’s atmosphere, to “pseudolites,” or pseudo-satellites, advantaged nodes that simulate satellite services, the Army is exploring all options for beyond-line-of- sight communications and connectivity in degraded environments. Another oper- ational imperative is to actually remove traffic from the network through intelli- gent caching mechanisms that record the
At lower echelons, the Army crossed a major threshold with CS 13 by deliver- ing software-defined radios that connect with smartphonelike handheld devices to transmit position location information, text messages, photos and other data. Te focus for the future is to “untether” the phone from the radio, using LTE (Long Term Evolution, commonly known as 4G) wireless technology, so that
troops
can communicate more seamlessly across echelons. Radios will continue to improve as we maintain a competitive marketplace for commercial hardware and consistently incorporate enhancements to government- owned waveforms—with the NaN goal of achieving a simple-to-operate family of radios that can adapt dynamically to any bandwidth and spectrum environment.
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