ACQUISITION AT SPEED
Te Integrated Tactical Network provides a simplified, independent, mobile network solution comprising a commercial solu- tions kit that can be rapidly inserted into the existing tactical network. Tese capabilities provide commanders with flexible, secure and resilient communica- tions across echelons and will be pivotal to 2nd Cavalry Regiment’s mounted, highly mobile missions as part of their arsenal within the European Command area of operations.
“Te biggest thing about ITN is that it is truly an integrated tactical network,” said Staff Sgt. John Mock, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Calvary Regiment network commu- nications officer-in-charge of network integration for the unit. “We aren’t using independent systems that are great on their own but ultimately don’t talk to one another.”
With the addition of CS23 Integrated Tactical Network capabilities, Soldiers are able to access cellular hotspots for their vehicles, which allow mounted Soldiers to connect to cloud-based resources with a secure VPN over host-nation cellular services as part of their primary, alternate, contingency and emergency plan.
CS23’s Integrated Tactical Network also provides new Wi-Fi and updated GPS vehicle routing capabilities, and multiple- input and multiple-output radios, which allow high-speed data exchanges in both static and mobile command posts.
Radios are the primary capability used for Integrated Tactical Network commu- nications across the echelons, and for this exercise, the 2nd Cavalry Regiment “Wolfpack” platoons used the PRC-163 Leader Radio for dismounted operations and the PRC-162 Manpack radio for both dismounts and inside the vehicles.
MIND MELD
Soldier touch points provided critical feedback for the Army’s test community. (Photo by Spc. Ryan Parr, Training Support Activity Europe)
“Te ITN is turning the corner on line-of- sight radios, going back to post-Vietnam, so that now we are able to transmit in and around terrain and armored vehicles,” said Sgt. Maj. Christian Bearden, who is in charge of all operations processes and establishing the main command post. “If the radio is the most casualty-producing weapon on the battlefield, we must have a radio that provides the capabilities that we need.”
Te radios are connected to the Nett Warrior—a handheld, cell-phone-like device—providing real-time, map-based position location information to Soldiers across all echelons.
“With the ITN, we gain more [position location information] and thus more survivability,” Bearden said. “Tat is a game changer for us.”
Te primary waveform used with the Integrated Tactical Network is the TSM
waveform, which is a commercial mesh waveform that requires line-of-sight and provides a multinode relay, where every radio is a repeater for all network traffic. Providing simultaneous voice, data and position location information, TSM oper- ates in the secure but unclassified network environment, which enables encrypted data to be transmitted over military or commercial networks, the internet, cellular networks or compatible but non- military waveforms.
Te 3rd Squadron, 2nd Calvary Regiment initially received CS21 Integrated Tacti- cal Network as a means for the unit to train on the radios and handheld devices, which they used during the multina- tional exercise Saber Strike 22 conducted in February.
“We conducted a 14,000-kilometer road march from Germany to Latvia,” Bearden said. “You’re not going to see that with any [continental United States] organization.
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