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a live network with more than 60 nodes and a network operations center, so the team can integrate, test and demonstrate new capa- bility enhancements resulting from the constant Soldier feedback. Soldiers can come to the facility and evaluate the newest soft- ware iterations before the software goes back to the pilot units, enabling the engineers to tweak the evolving capability yet again.
Te PM and the signal community are also exercising the proto- type software as part of several larger pilot programs being conducted to gain Soldier feedback to inform design, functional- ity and fielding decisions for other Army network modernization efforts. Tese include an ongoing pilot being supported by the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division to inform capa- bility decisions on the eventual equipment refresh of the Army’s legacy Tactical Network Transport at-the-Halt system. Te new network management software prototype will also be integrated into the Tactical Network Transport on-the-Move technical inser- tions that PM TN will deliver this summer.
“We want to give signal Soldiers the best tools to manage their network as quick as we can,” said Lt. Col. Sung In, product manager for Tactical Cyber and Network Operations within PM TN. “It is impossible to design a tool that is going to make every- one happy 100 percent of the time, but the DevOps process is enabling us to get an 80 percent solution into the hands of Soldiers, and we can continue to enhance that solution as we move forward.”
SIDE BY SIDE AT DEFENDER 20 In preparation for the Joint Warfighting Assessment 20 and Defender 20 exercises, PM TN, industry and supporting units are working together to ensure a strong foundation for success,
including weekly synchronization meetings to iron out issues before deployment to Europe. During the actual exercises, the project office and vendor engineers will be on site alongside the units, so they can provide solutions immediately to any problems or capability requests that arise, enabling Soldiers to evaluate them on site.
“In the past, there has been a disconnect among the Army’s writ- ten requirements, what the project manager fulfilled and what the operator really needs,” North said. “Now, by having the PM and industry sitting there next to us in Defender, the PM is going to be able to walk out of the exercise, go back and make a 10-times better tool from that one opportunity to test-run it, from seeing how Soldiers are going to break it, or use it in ways not intended, and then developing a product that meets Soldiers’ needs far better and faster than it was able to before.”
For more information, go to the PEO C3T website at http://
peoc3t.army.mil/c3t/ or contact the PEO C3T Public Affairs Office at 443-395-6489 or
usarmy.APG.peo-c3t.mbx.pao-peoc3t@
mail.mil.
MAJ. NICHOLAS MILANO, a basic branch engineer officer, serves as the assistant product manager for the Product Manager for Tactical Cyber and Network Operations and the project lead for the Network Operations Management System. He has an M.A. in management from American Military University and a B.A. in computer studies from the University of Maryland. He has been in the acquisition workforce for two years, is a member of the Army Acquisition Corps and is Level II certified in program management.
We will need a good network operations tool to manage that entire series of exercises—from the jump to the crossings— and all of the tactical nodes and the strategic connectivity required to tie it all together.
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