UNDERSTANDING ARMY ACQUISITION


papers on the National Spectrum Consor- tium site and FedBizOpps, where we solicited novel ideas from industry on how to automate PACE plans using commer- cial waveforms. We received a total of 30 white papers and selected the three we felt were most promising for PACE plans. In less than a month we solidified agreements, and then requested prototype equipment deliveries followed by Soldier experi- mentation.


It is also important to note that the Network Cross-Functional Team coordi- nates with FORSCOM [U.S. Army Forces Command] to source all maneuver unit experimentation.


Bailey: What did some of the initial experiments entail?


Hasan: We conducted three field-based risk reduction events, using one vendor capability at each event, in three sepa- rate states from the spring through the early fall of 2019. Te first event took place in New York City, where we tested a new commercial waveform designed to act as a mobile ad hoc network for situa- tions where Soldiers’ missions take place in environments not conducive to signal transmission. What better place than New York, where we could test the waveforms on the subway, the Midtown Tunnel and among the skyscrapers?


We also traveled to Burneyville, Okla- homa, to assess network connectivity in dense foliage and then to Southern Cali- fornia, where we obtained an ad hoc network using a commercial waveform to stream video and voice from the 15th floor of an L.A. [Los Angeles] building to its underground garage. We used the same waveform to travel across many kilome- ters of vegetation throughout areas of the Santa Monica Mountains.


UNDERGROUND TESTING


Engineers with PEO C3T and the Network Cross-Functional Team travel underground to the New York City subway in May to test the range and PACE plan of a commercial waveform in a GPS-denied environment. The exercise was part of a field-based risk reduction effort and designed to help usher technologies from prototype to fielding in a year or less.


HEADSETS ON


Members of the 1/504 PIR, part of the 82nd Airborne Division, receive training on a mobile ad hoc network radio on Aug. 28 at their home station at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The 1/504 is the participating unit for the PEO C3T and Network Cross- Functional Team Rapid Integration Fund effort, designed to identify commercial waveform technologies that will operate in contested and congested environments.


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