ARMY AL&T
MODERNIZING THE NETWORK
A departing network PM discusses challenges and must -haves as the Army moves toward its one network vision.
by Amy Walker Col. Greg Coile C
ol. Greg Coile has been serving as the project manager (PM) for Tacti- cal Network, assigned to the Program Office for Command, Control and Communications – Tactical (PEO C3T), for the last four years. His program office provides the Army’s tactical network, supporting commanders’ on-the-
move mission command requirements from battalion to corps and their forward units on the battlefield. Tis line-of-sight and beyond-line-of-sight tactical network transport equipment enables global mission command and the exchange of data, voice and video from any location. In this Q&A, conducted before his change of charter in July 2019, Coile provides lessons learned in data sharing, network acquisition and the future of the Army’s tactical network.
Amy Walker: Te first month you took office, in July 2015, you set out to implement a “One Network” mission and vision. Can you tell us more about the significance of that?
Coile: In the past, individual Army programs were singularly focused on their specific requirements, and due to a high operations tempo, network integration fell behind. Te Army was delivering capability as quickly as possible to support evolving counterinsur- gency operations during the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it was forced to complete total network integration later in the process. Now that we face a potential threat by a peer and near-peer adversary, network modernization efforts demand unification.
We can’t afford to look at the tactical network as my radio or your satellite terminal; we have to look at it as “our one network.” Tis one-network vision calls for organizations and stakeholders within PM Tactical Network, PEO C3T and the Army to view network modernization efforts through the same lens. It calls for them to work seamlessly and cohesively, blurring the lines of organizational boundaries to deliver innovative inte- grated capabilities more efficiently and effectively. No matter what organization you are assigned to, we are all working toward a common goal—a single, unified network that
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