on their WIN-T Inc 2-equipped vehicles a firsthand look at how they operate within the network.
Te capstone training is evolving into a collective-level training event
involving
individual Soldiers, unit leaders from company through brigade levels, and operations and signal officers.
TRAINING, EQUIPMENT GO HAND-IN-HAND Soldier feedback from CS 13 training and operations indicated that the Army might better resolve problems by fixing software or hardware rather than just adjusting training.
For instance, Soldiers initially reported difficulty in employing the WIN-T Inc 2 Combat Net Radio Gateway, which uses the vehicle’s on-the-move satellite communication systems to help extend lower tactical Internet radio networks. Instead of modifying training to alleviate the problems, the Army developed system improvements to decrease complexity and increase ease of use.
Tese changes were part of an overall WIN-T Inc 2 simplification across all network-equipped vehicles,
LEARNING CS 14
A Soldier from the 1-101 trains on a WIN-T Inc 2 TCN system at Fort Campbell, KY, in March. The 1-101 is the first unit to receive the complete CS 14 tactical network. It benefited from the CS 13 training experiences of the 3-101, which was the fourth unit to receive CS 13 and did not face the compressed deployment timeline that challenged the first three units. (U.S. Army photo by Claire Heininger, PEO C3T)
Leveraging that feedback, the acquisition community is working to make training more relevant and palatable for the unit.
drastically
reducing startup and shutdown times, and providing a new, easy-to-use graphical interface and improved troubleshooting tools—all of which simultaneously reduced the training burden.
CONCLUSION Properly training capability sets is vital to a unit’s success. As the Army continues to field incremental network improvements, it will have to improve and streamline the training process to incorporate needed changes. Processes are in place to obtain feedback from Soldiers and apply it for follow-on NET events and sustainment training as well as in the schoolhouse.
A network is only as good as the Soldiers running it, and the Army is aiming to provide the best capability efficiently with the best-trained force possible.
For more information, go to the PEO C3T website at
http://peoc3t.army.mil/c3t/ and the PM WIN-T website at http://
peoc3t.army.mil/wint/; or contact the PEO C3T Public Affairs Office at 443- 395-6489 or
usarmy.APG.peo-c3t.mbx.
pao-peoc3t@mail.mil. DOD employees can find more information, including the DOD encyclopedia entry on PM WIN-T, in milWiki at
http://go.usa.gov/4Qvk (CAC login required).
MAJ JONATHAN SWAN, an assis- tant product manager for WIN-T
Inc 2, recently redeployed from Operation Enduring Freedom, where he
supported
CS 13 units. He holds a B.S. in mechani- cal engineering from Virginia Tech and is Level II certified in program management.
CPT KEITH JORDAN is the trail boss for synchronized fielding for SoSE&I, Aber- deen Proving Ground, MD. He holds an MBA from the Naval Postgraduate School and a B.B.A. in finance from Texas State University.
MR. LARRY SPENCE is the training manager for WIN-T Inc 2. An employee of Scientific Research Corp., he has man- aged all of the WIN-T Inc 2 unit training since the program began fielding. He is retired from the Navy, where he worked as an information systems technician. He holds an associate degree from Brookdale Community College in New Jersey and is pursuing a degree in cybersecurity from the University of Maryland.
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