THE POWER OF SOLDIER FEEDBACK


operations. Leaders and developers are working with PEO GCS to incorporate these lessons learned, with the understanding that integrating modern equipment onto the unit’s legacy flat-bottom Strykers could result in power issues. Future capability-set field- ings planned with other units take this issue into account, and the Integrated Tactical Network will be integrated into more modern vehicles.


Te capability-set team will continue to work with the 2nd Cavalry Regiment to identify potential options using legacy vehicles.


TRAINING WITHOUT END Troughout the CS21 and CS23 fielding, the 3rd Squadron, 2nd Calvary Regiment has received new equipment training from PEO C3T. Because of this support, the unit has been able to conduct its own training and troubleshoot network equipment when needed.


“My Soldiers were in five months of solid classes and actively working with the equipment to learn it from the inside out,” Mock said. “We’ve gotten to the point where we’re less reliant and dependent on the field service representatives. We can handle the technical issues ourselves.”


CALLING ALL UNITS


The PRC-162 Manpack radio and PRC-163 Leader Radio for dismounted operations at work during the exercise. (Photo by Kathryn Bailey, PEO C3T Public Affairs)


Te leadership and development teams under PEO C3T have learned holistically that by applying those training lessons learned from CS21 into CS23, Army schoolhouses must be brought in to begin institutionalizing training across the force as more units continue to receive capability set fielding.


It provided a great perspective about how ITN communica- tions works and how we were able to communicate across long distances while making a large-scale movement.”


Unit leaders compared using CS21 versus CS23 in their recent live-fire exercise. “Between our initial CS21 Integrated Tacti- cal Network fielding and CS23 Ops Demo, the key points we brought up, whether large-scale problems or small, such as plac- ing a button in a certain place, have been implemented,” Mock said. “We see noticeable improvements between the two, that are benefiting us.”


One area identified for additional improvement during Ops Demo 1 was power requirements for the Strykers under certain operational conditions; specifically, the unit could not maintain power during the silent watch portion of the exercise where the Strykers shut off engines and run on batteries while doing night


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However, institutionalized training is not limited to the units receiving the full network kit. More than 300 additional units have or will have specific components, such as radios, that are referred to as capability-set-enabling equipment. Tese units still require the appropriate equipment training to enable communi- cations and information sharing across formations.


Soldier feedback is making a difference institutionally, not only with technology, maturity and operational relevance, but also with guidance on how Soldiers should receive initial and refresher training.


CONCLUSION Te capability-set process has turned the old way of technology development and fielding upside down. In the case of CS23, it is no longer acceptable to hand a kit over to a platform unit and tell them, “Tis is your network; make it fit in your vehicles.”


Army AL&T Magazine Fall 2022


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