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them when transitioning to dismounted operations.
Program office developers took this feed- back and provided the ability for the tablet to connect to any network point of presence in the formation, such as tacti- cal radios, Wi-Fi and the upper tactical internet, giving dismounted troops the same common operating picture and chat function.
Soldier-driven feedback and the quick response from program developers for resolution provided the catalyst for the Office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation to deem the system effec- tive, suitable and survivable. As a result, the system will be approved for full field- ing in October 2024.
For the hardware, Mounted Mission Command – Transport (MMC-T) will replace the current legacy receiver to provide multitransport capabilities, such as low Earth orbit, geosynchronous Earth orbit and line-of-sight waveforms, which are critical to large-scale combat operations in contested and congested environments. Te 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment at Fort Irwin, California, validated critical anti-jam and multipath diversity capa- bilities within the MMC-T during a Soldier touch point in January 2024. Te MMC-T is moving into low-rate produc- tion in 2025.
Te 2nd Brigade Combat Team relied on these lessons to incorporate the ITN and MMC-S into its brigade combat team maneuver experimentation, including
Operation Lethal Eagle, enhancing on-the-move communications and helping to reduce the team’s footprint and elec- tronic signature.
A MORE FLEXIBLE FIRES APPLICATION Te Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System (AFATDS) software, fielded by the Army in 1995, was the first system to fully automate support for planning, coordinating, controlling and executing fires and effects. Fast forward nearly 30 years to Project Convergence Capstone 4, held at Fort Irwin in February and March 2023. Tere, the Army conducted a demonstration of the Artillery Execu- tion Suite (AXS) software, a modernized version of AFATDS, to replace the mono- lithic Fires C2 software with a TAK-based system. Tis new version is now undergo- ing Soldier experimentation at the division level with several units within the Army.
“While consistently effective throughout the years, AFATDS was not designed to be easily upgradable,” said Lt. Col. Timo- thy Godwin, product support manager for AFATDS.
Te demonstration at Project Convergence showed that AFATDS and AXS could pass fires chain traffic back and forth, and both systems displayed the same common oper- ating picture.
“AXS will be the flexible fires support soft- ware of the future and will be data-centric, hardware-agnostic and able to reside in the cloud,” Godwin said.
ROGER THAT
Soldiers with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division complete an overnight assault mission during the Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center at Schofield Barracks in November 2023. They provided feedback on the Army’s Division Warfighting at Echelon effort, which pushes network complexity up to division. (Photo by Samuel Brooks, PEO C3T Public Affairs)
AIR ASSAULT COMMUNICATIONS Te ability of pilots and commanders to communicate with ground forces during air assaults provides an asymmetrical advantage to Soldiers in the fight. Te 101st Airborne, which specializes in air
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