ARMY AL&T


EQUIPMENT CHECK


Sgt. Matthew Rainwater, a Soldier in the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) Signal and Intelligence Support Company, configures equipment and devices for use on the network while establishing communications inside a bunker on Mihail Kogalniceanu air base in Romania. (Photo by Pfc. Matthew Wantroba, 101st Airborne Division)


number of different satellite terminals and corresponding baseband equipment used to transmit data in the field.


PM TN will ensure that the Family of Terminals is continually updated as new commercial solutions become available and that units don’t have technology that is over 5 years old. As technology advances, the Army would have the flexibility to modernize current systems through tech- nical insertions at any point in time. Every two years, as part of capability set reviews, industry would be able to compete to become one the newest members of the Family of Terminals, replacing outdated capability.


BREAKING UP THE BASEBAND Following the adoption of the Family of Terminals approach, the Army is also looking to introduce a Family of Baseband equipment. As in the Family of Terminals approach, the service would normalize requirements to reduce the amount of baseband equipment, while delivering enough capability to ensure network resil- iency and network transport diversity to support congested and contested environ- ments. Te biggest differences in baseband will be in how many users each system can support, including constraints such as port density. Like Lego blocks, termi- nals and baseband can be scaled up or


down as needed to meet different mission requirements.


To keep up with baseband technology advancements as they evolve, the contin- ued virtualization of hardware—which turns hardware into software—will provide needed network capacity and make it easier for the Army to insert new capabilities, while reducing size, weight and power-cost. When systems are virtu- alized, simple modernization and security software upgrades can be rapidly imple- mented across the fleet, versus potentially having to add more hardware, as the service would have done in the past.


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