ARMY AL&T


A CLEARER NETWORK PICTURE


New prototype sof tware unifies and simplifies network management ahead of coalition exercises.


by Maj. Nicholas Milano T


he Army will put its new unified network management prototype tool suite through its paces during several modernization events this year, including the Joint Warfighting Assessment 20 and the follow-on Defender 20 multi- national exercises in Europe in April and May, as part of a rapid acquisition


and development effort.


“I want to be proactive, not reactive, about giving commanders the best quality network possible,” said Col. Brian North, commander of the 11th Teater Tactical Signal Brigade, which will use the prototype during the multinational exercises. “With these new network management tools, we are trying to fuse information together as much as possible to speed decision-making—so we can take action to counter a problem, before a user is ever affected.”


Te current problem is that signal Soldiers have many different legacy stovepiped tools, loaded on 23 different laptops, which each provide a piece of the network picture, such as bandwidth use, latency and node status, North said. Soldiers have to look at all of the separate slices of information and try to quickly piece them together to identify any issues that may arise, such as loss of signals, network congestion, or if a node is down and why.


Te new prototype software, known as the Network Operations Management System, will integrate all of this information into one place, providing a broad network picture


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