“It’s pretty phenomenal, the way the platoons and below have been using equipment given to them,” said SGM Joe Singerhouse, also of 4-10’s 2nd Bat- talion, 30th Infantry Regiment. “Tey’re dealing with iPhones and Androids and PlayStations and computers every day. Te beauty of this system: Tese Soldiers, once they’ve figured out the architecture and what makes it go, now they know,
‘Hey I can take this capability, move it over here and be responsive to what the commander wants for mission com- mand on the battlefield.’ ”
Te Boar Battle Wagon was one example of the junior Soldiers’ ingenuity. Boyer explained to them what he needed— voice, email and blue force tracking capability, with connectivity
beyond
line-of-sight—and the limitations imposed by the terrain he would face. PFC Jonathan Bole and his buddies did the rest.
COMMUNICATIONS ON THE MOVE
A Soldier from the 3-10 drives an MRAP equipped with WIN-T Increment 2 during training at Fort Drum in April. CS 13 allows Soldiers and leaders to exchange real-time information across echelons and to execute mission command using mobile communications technologies, rather than having to remain in a fixed location to access the network. The equipment is scalable and tailorable to different missions and environments.
“Te challenge,” he continued, “has really been to get my leaders—people more attuned to the way that I was raised to fight—to embrace the technology and to power down to the younger Soldiers, and really let them experiment with the sys- tems and find out what their capabilities truly are.”
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MS. CLAIRE HEININGER is a staff writer for Symbolic Systems Inc., supporting the U.S. Army Program Executive Office Command, Control and Communications – Tactical. Heininger holds a B.A. in American studies from the University of Notre Dame and has covered Army network technologies, policies and events extensively.
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“Te colonel just wanted something he could load up on a Chinook and have basic communications with his troops, and keep an eye on them,” Bole said. “It
Te generator was borrowed from the handheld devices, and the satellite antenna from the back
of
gives us one of
the MRAPs equipped with WIN-T Increment 2. Te other components came from a CS 13 company command post training set kit, originally meant for use in a tactical operations center (TOC) to boost communications for company commanders. To further enhance the capability of
the system, the Soldiers
added a One System Remote Video Terminal (OSRVT) to remotely pull down surveillance images.
After securing the gear, Bole and a few other Soldiers configured it on the Gator, making sure the systems and antennas were properly placed. Ten they let it fly.
Atop a ridge at the sprawling Louisiana training center, the helicopter offloaded the Boar Battle Wagon with rotors turn- ing. Within a few minutes, Soldiers powered up its systems and sent messages more than 30 miles back to the battalion TOC, which received and replied to the missives. Tey made voice calls over satel- lite, pulled feeds from the OSRVT and viewed blue icons showing the locations of other friendly forces.
After validating the solution during the JRTC rotation, Boyer’s battalion is plan- ning to take it to theater.
Tese smart young Soldiers, who have grown up with technology and have a native understanding of it, “have a frame of reference for how technology works and were able to say, ‘Yeah, I think I can make this work to meet the commander’s intent for operations,’ ” Boyer said.
the opportunity to get some- where faster than a truck.”
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