ARMY AL&T
"By leveraging already planned global training exercises, we have access to field testing environments on a much larger scale with greater frequency than would traditionally be available."
One way the Army is enhancing network resiliency is through automated diversity in transport agnostic communications, significantly increasing the number and variety of network communication path- ways available to units. Te more pathway options that can be leveraged for data to travel through, the more resilient the network becomes.
PM TN has been working with 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) in Europe to demonstrate a new software capabil- ity known as “Seeker,” a signal pathway diversity solution that provides the unit with an auto-PACE capability for satellite, terrestrial and line-of-sight communica- tions. During the unit’s exercises, Soldiers did not know they had periodically lost their primary and alternate signal paths until after the event had ended because of the seamless transition between commu- nications (transport options) that Seeker provided during the exercises. Addition- ally, the Project Manager Tactical Network recently completed real-world testing in Hawaii of a next-generation tropo- spheric scatter transmission capability that provides a high-throughput, non-satellite communications beyond-line-of-sight
capability to units in geographically dispersed locations, which is exceedingly relevant in the Indo-Pacific environment.
In layman’s terms discuss the Army’s efforts to enable distributed command and control and tactical edge cloud access.
Day: Te Army is enhancing the network to support cloud access experimentation and pilot efforts, which will inform future enhancements of cloud-based mission command and data sharing from distrib- uted locations. PM TN is supporting a pilot called Agnostic Zone Transport Enabling Cloud Access, which extends the regional hub node and Global Agile Integrated Transport infrastructure into the cloud. By extending the network secu- rity boundary into a cloud environment, this enables units to securely access their home station resources at the tactical edge using existing transport options, with fewer signal hops, less bottlenecks and ultimately quicker access, without sacri- ficing security or capability. Tis effort is currently supporting I Corps initiatives to operationalize distributing command and control in the Indo-Pacific environment.
Aderton: The Army’s distributed command and control and tactical cloud access enables commanders to make deci- sions at the speed of need. Access to data is no longer limited to just on prem- ises or locally deployed tactical systems. With robust tactical networks and cloud enabled services, units are postured to access persistent data with fewer tactical systems deployed and managed to support mission at distant locations.
How does a tactical data fabric enable access to the right data for the right users?
Aderton: Tactical data fabric enables access to various data beyond just a partic- ular warfighting mission area; it “stitches” together a variety of information sources and unique data formats. Let’s take logis- tics data for example. Trough the data fabric—or the Product Manager Tactical Mission Command-developed Command Post Computing Environment (CPCE) Tactical Data Fabric (CTDF)—we can ingest data sets necessary to execute logis- tics status reporting and to provision the logistics status and sustainment running estimate tools with the tactical and enter- prise data sets required to achieve the required sustainment functions and features in CPCE. CTDF enables the ingress, curation, normalization and storage of sustainment data sets provid- ing commanders with real time combat power status.
Discuss the partnership between Army units, PEO C3T, the science and tech- nology (S&T) community and industry, and the significance of that. How is Soldier feedback specifically shaping capability development?
Day: Close partnerships between Army units, PEO C3T, the Army Futures Command’s Network Cross-Functional
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