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level and below and provide signifi- cant cost savings to the Army.
“We have a million-person Army, which means we need to make sure we have the right mix and quantities of radios at echelon,” Daiyaan said. “Some of those radios have differ- ent use cases, but we’re asking ourselves, ‘Is that correct for the next fight?’ Many of those were built for a fight that may have passed.”
RADIO JUNGLE
A Soldier with the 25th ID conducts low-cost, secure but unclassified-encrypted radio experimentation during a jungle situational training exercise in support of Operation Tiger Balm, held in Hawaii as part of Operation Pathways. The Army is considering radio options that are sufficient for platoon and below and is collecting Soldier feedback on several candidate radios to complete market research. (Photo courtesy of the Singapore Army)
Experiments for the culminat- ing Operations Pathway biennial exercise Talisman Sabre, held in Australia this summer, will further refine the experiments conducted in the exercises leading up to it. The entire Operation Pathways exercise will help inform the first fielding for the ITN at the division level, begin- ning with the 82nd Airborne Division, followed by the 101st Airborne Divi- sion (Air Assault).
In addition to division as unit of action experimentation, Operation Pathways is helping the Army inform its fiscal year 2025 network designs. One of the most exciting experi- ments during the exercise featured a high frequency (HF) ground radio, which in March achieved the longest waveform “shot” achieved to-date across the Pacific.
“The 25th ID successfully completed an approximately 8,000 kilometer HF shot by employing the PRC-160 HF Manpack radio with the LDD [Last Ditch Data] waveform to communicate from Fort Magsaysay, Philippines to the division main at Schofield Barracks,” Daiyaan said. “That’s well beyond any HF shot with this radio that we are aware of.”
Given the success of this wave- form shot, the PM TR team plans to attempt further shots from the U.S. to the Philippines.
The Tiger Balm portion of Operation Pathways, held in Hawaii, provided another perfect scenario for the Army to exercise critical radio tech- nologies by preparing tactical units to execute small unit tactics in a controlled environment. During their jungle situational training exer- cise, Soldiers with the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th ID exercised low-cost, single-channel radios that operate over SBU-E. The radios are part of a current market research effort to identify options for radios that facilitate command-and- control operations at the platoon
Preparing to conduct operations across a noncontiguous archipelagic operating environment in a multina- tional exercise will require secure and robust communications up and down echelons.
“Soldier feedback will continue to drive everything we are doing to meet division as unit of action requirements,” Daiyaan said. “Lever- aging all of the data we’re collecting on the SBU-E network, our cross- domain solutions, radios and various resilient waveforms is keep- ing the momentum strong to meet any challenges we may face as we drive towards the Army of 2030.”
—KATHRYN BAILEY
https://asc.ar my.mil
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