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NETWORK ‘A revolutionary new approach’
ARMY BUILDING THE by Kris Osborn
The U.S. Army has vigorously undertaken an ambitious, far-reaching Network Integration Evaluation (NIE) at Fort Bliss, TX, and White Sands Missile Range, NM, designed to simultaneously test programs of record and assess a host of emerging network technologies, Army senior leaders said.
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he NIE, which began the first week of June and includes formal limited user tests (LUTs) of six programs of
record and evaluation of a host of emerg- ing or developmental technologies, is a key part of the Army’s network strategy. The NIE is structured to assess the scope and readiness of emerging technologies and, where appropriate, integrate new capability before sending it downrange to Soldiers in combat.
A key aim of the NIE is to help the Army field current technology faster, to ensure that Soldiers maintain the technological edge over our adversaries. At the heart
NETWORKED FIREPOWER
Soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division practice a fire mission during Week 2 of the Army’s NIE at White Sands Missile Range. (U.S. Army photo by Claire Heininger Schwerin, Program Executive Office Command, Control, and Communications-Tactical (PEO C3T).)
of the exercise is an overarching effort to develop a single battlefield network able to connect dismounted Soldiers to other units in real time, linking them to com- mand posts, vehicles on the move, and higher headquarters. The Army wants to use the best available technologies to move more information, voice, video, data, and images faster, farther, and more efficiently across the force.
“The network will literally redefine how we fight,” said GEN Peter W. Chiarelli, Vice Chief of Staff of the Army. “Ultimately, the network will connect leaders and Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines at all levels, at every echelon of command,
in any formation, and across the entire team, with the right information quickly and seamlessly. And in doing so, I am confident it will make our various forma- tions more lethal, faster, and survivable in today’s battlefield.”
TARGET TECHNOLOGIES Central to the NIE is the continued eval- uation of nonproprietary high-bandwidth waveforms such as Soldier Radio Wave- form (SRW) and Wideband Networking Waveform (WNW), which use a larger portion of the available spectrum than legacy waveforms to move voice, video, images, and data in real time across mul- tiple nodes in the force.
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