SMARTPHONE APPLICATION


Dr. David Darkow, with the Natick Soldier Research, Development, and Engineering Center, demonstrates Nett Warrior software on an Android smartphone operating system. (U.S. Army photo courtesy of PEO Soldier.)


platform that will be used as the foun- dation to address SA and command and control for the tactical small unit.


At the demonstration in April, PM GS detailed the constraints associated with pursuing commercial network, hardware, and software solutions and identified where waivers would be required and which agencies would need to provide waivers or allowances.


LTC Roland Gaddy, PM GS, kicked off the event.


“Technology is moving forward and changes are coming. We must continue to evolve; however, technology is not the issue,” Gaddy said, referring to the availability of commercial hardware and software that can be used right now on the battlefield. “Statutes, policies, and processes are the challenge to providing game-changing technology.”


Obtaining clearance or authorization to integrate these technologies into future NW initiatives will require relief from


various categories of constraints at the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Army, and DOD levels, Gaddy said.


CUTTING-EDGE TECHNOLOGY The technologies demonstrated included network solutions designed for vari- ous Soldier operating environments, to include man-portable ad hoc networks, encrypted commercial wireless networks, one-way and two-way Position Location Information Isolators, and Android oper- ating system applications running the NW software on mobile devices.


“We are evaluating high-speed, cutting- edge technologies and stressing fight- ability,” said Jason Regnier, Deputy PM NW. “Today’s battlefield mandates extremely reliable technology to combat an agile and adaptive enemy. Just stay- ing ahead isn’t enough anymore; we are providing game-changing technologies to win the fight.”


The demonstration also addressed mate- riel solutions for data transfer between unclassified and secret networks at the


tactical level. Tactical demonstrations outside the Fort Belvoir [VA] Officers’ Club allowed the participants to send and receive mission-essential data via their mobile devices and NW, to display screens visible inside the building.


The event is the first in a series of tech- nology demonstrations planned by PEO Soldier to evaluate emerging technologies with warfighter applications that comple- ment the NW program. The next event, the Joint User Interoperability Commu- nications Exercise, was held at Fort Bliss, TX, in June. At the event, PM GS worked with the Signal Center of Excellence to demonstrate interoperability with tactical cellular capabilities.


MAJ DOUGLAS W. COPELAND is the Assistant PM GS. He holds a B.S. from Texas Christian University and an M.B.A. from the Naval Postgraduate School. Cope- land is certified Level III in program management and Level I in information technology. He is a U.S. Army Acquisition Corps member.


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