UNDERSTANDING ARMY ACQUISITION


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PEO C3T engineers work on software-defined radios during the Integrated Tactical Network (ITN) verification and validation event at the PEO C3T ITN facility in September at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The team prepared the expeditionary ITN equipment set for an upcoming pilot that will be supported by the 82nd Airborne Division. (U.S. Army photo by Amy Walker, PM Tactical Network, PEO C3T Public Affairs)


functioned in new ways. Te vendors did not need to change their internal business processes to provide their technologies to us, enabling them to enter into an arena once monopolized by larger, more traditional defense contractors.


USE OPEN FRAMEWORKS AND STANDARDS Adopting an open framework and standards was a key component that enabled us to use nontraditional vendors. It also provided common network planning, configuration, management and monitoring capabilities. Troughout the process of developing the radio network operations software tool suite, we purposely laid a foundation for an open framework and open standards, including open application programming interfaces that enable applications to “talk” to each other. Tis open architecture ensures that future DOD software and system development will most effectively share information between systems and more easily and rapidly integrate future systems to improve functionality and capability.


Te open construct will be critical to future network moderniza- tion endeavors. DOD continues to develop integrated capability, such as its Integrated Tactical Network, which includes multi- ple vendors, hardware, software, configurations and systems that overarch multiple programs. Te Integrated Tactical Network design enables commanders to leverage military and commer- cially available networks for communication and more easily share information with their coalition mission partners. Te commer- cial off-the-shelf equipment package includes new expeditionary satellite terminals, high-capacity line-of-sight capability, mobile broadband kits, radio waveforms, a 2-Channel Leader Radio, single-channel radios, smartphone devices, network gateways, unified network operations tools and data products.


IMPLEMENT DEVELOPMENTAL OPERATIONS To get the new prototype software tool suite to the field faster and to continue to improve capability, we are conducting ongoing experiments and using a developmental operations


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