CCDC’S ROAD MAP TO MODERNIZING THE ARMY: THE NETWORK
The network is the connective tissue that provides Soldiers with the ability to see and hear as they execute the basics of move, shoot and communicate.
ensure that the commander and staff have a seamless, intuitive common operating picture across these computing environments. Te Army plans to field an initial version of the Common Oper- ating Environment in FY19, leveraging commercial software solutions adapted for military use.
IMPROVING JOINT-FORCE INTEROPERABILITY Since the Army does not fight alone, interoperability with coali- tion partners is one of its top priorities. Having a common operating picture across allied forces and sharing and exchang- ing data are critical to supporting future conflicts.
We are working to enhance the Mission Partner Environment, which includes information-sharing policies, potential partner capabilities and compatibility with Army communications and information technology (IT) systems. Te environment will ensure that Army forces can more effectively interact, techni- cally and operationally—a priority for combatant commanders who rely on joint and multinational interoperability. Some of the critical information that commanders will be able to lever- age and share includes logistics, terrain, fires and friendly and enemy position data.
ENSURING COMMAND POST SURVIVABILITY As the main hub where commanders control operations, command posts include equipment, information systems and networks that, today, may take many hours to set up or tear down and many hours to ensure connectivity. Additionally, because they tend to have large electromagnetic, visual and noise signatures, they are often easily detected by adversaries.
Today’s military formations need to be agile and survivable on the modern battlefield, so we are working on solutions that enable seamless, connected command collaboration across mobile command post vehicles. Additionally, we are developing new ways to reduce adversaries’ ability to detect our command posts. Te CCDC C5ISR Center has worked with many units over the past few years to experiment with a variety of command post
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prototypes in the field around the world, and has fed the results and lessons learned from those events back into the acquisition process, leading to better solutions for commanders and Soldiers in the future.
READY, SET, FIELD As part of the Army’s decision to alter the way it develops require- ments and evaluates and procures technology, it pivoted to a two-year incremental capability-set fielding approach, starting in FY21. Capability sets will build off each other and close critical capability gaps by fielding network systems that are infused with commercial solutions and informed by Soldier-led experimenta- tion. Tese experiments will focus beyond today’s current network baseline and look toward enhanced capabilities that align with the four network modernization lines of effort. Tis will speed up requirements development and approval, and provide an open architecture and standards for industry innovation.
Inserting technology in two-year capability sets provides flexibil- ity to augment and integrate information technology capability as it emerges from industry. We are adapting our S&T efforts to support this approach.
TELL US HOW IT WORKS To achieve creative solutions, we must foster an environment that allows everyone to understand the problem space and exper- iment with new ideas and concepts to advance each successive capability set.
Experimentation using prototypes enables us to learn early lessons about how the equipment performs in a realistic environment, how Soldiers will use the equipment, and what capabilities should be included in the final product. Lessons learned from experi- mentation and demonstrations inform the Futures and Concepts Team and the Network Cross-Functional Team as they write requirements and develop the operational concepts for next-gener- ation capabilities.
Te Army Network Modernization Experiment 2019 (NetMod X), which was conducted from May through June, was a field-based
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