ARMY AL&T
A U.S. Army Evaluation Task Force (AETF) Soldier waits for exercises to begin during the limited user test (LUT) Media Day Sept. 1, 2009, at WSMR, NM. In September 2010, Soldiers of the AETF completed a full-scale military exercise to test and evaluate Increment 1 during the Force Development Test and Experimentation and the LUT. (U.S. Army photo.)
increased bandwidth while on-the-move. An aerial tier will be fielded in WIN-T Increment 3, bringing a network back- bone that can maintain connectivity at all times, regardless of whether a plat- form is moving or stationary.
Cozby noted that acquisition Programs of Record (PORs) exist to build the various waveforms and the associ- ated radios, but that there is no POR designed to integrate them with one another. This will be accomplished by the Army’s new PEO Integration, which was created in connection with an acquisition decision memorandum in December 2009 laying out the networks for 2011 and 2017. In con- junction with that memorandum, GEN Peter Chiarelli, Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, required a demonstration of the Army network.
“These emerging technologies will provide vital capability to our deployed forces and ensure that we keep our Soldiers equipped with the best kit available,” said BG N. Lee S. Price, Program Executive Officer C3T.
Although the future WIN-T network will use either commercial KU-Band or military Wideband Global Satellite Communications satellites, only com- mercial satellites were used in the exercise, DeGroodt said.
Connecting the Company with the World
As units in Afghanistan and Iraq maneuver in a dispersed fashion, the exercise at WSMR demonstrated that the Army will be able to connect higher echelons to the rifleman and vice versa. Doing so will empower the company commander, McNulty said.
“Providing the company commander with situational awareness and real- time actionable intelligence is critical to allowing the rifleman to conduct the mission,” he said.
This marked the first time that the waveform technologies of SRW, WNW, and NCW operated together, said Robert Wilson, Director of Tactical Radios for PEO C3T. It also was the first of many exercises that will build
upon the established network thread, so that this solution can be incorpor- ated in the future. The network thread means taking separate communications capabilities and networking them together as one to establish communications among separate units or echelons.
McNulty cited the example of how a battle captain at APG was able to use WIN-T Increment 2 to send an opera- tions order of nearly six megabytes to a company commander at WSMR. This company commander was able to share information with adjacent companies and their platoon leaders via WNW and SRW. This capability will increase the speed of operations and prevent casualties, McNulty explained, noting that a Soldier today might have to drive 50 miles to deliver this information.
In the triple-canopy jungle of Vietnam, Ruane used a method known as triangu- lation to achieve what Global Positioning System technology does today. Ruane began by firing an artillery round at a 200-meter height-of-burst at different grid locations. Then, he would use
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