RAPID NETWORKING
We looked for innovative ways to enhance one another’s separate capabilities, which eventually led to enhancement of the radio management tool suite as a whole.
construct that puts developers alongside Soldiers and commanders in operational units. Te Soldiers put the capabilities through their paces in training and field exercises, and we incorporate their feed- back to continually inform requirements. Tis incremental development process enables our team to evaluate new tech- nology concepts and potential solutions earlier and more frequently, collect feed- back in real time, and rapidly generate new requirements as needed.
Under the developmental operations construct, our engineers implemented Agile release train principles used in the software industry that are designed to bring the team of teams together to deliver regular planned upgrades. Continuous exploration and integration fed quar- terly software releases that were part of quarterly Soldier touch points with vari- ous units, including 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division; 1st Battal- ion, 508th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division; and the 10th Mountain Division.
Trough these Soldier touch points, we are gaining continuous feedback on the prototype software design, which is immediately fed back into the software development sprint cycles, to be refined again as part of the next quarterly release cycle. Using this common cadence, each of the three PEO C3T program offices has dedicated resources to continuously define, build, test and deliver the best possible
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capability to the Army before fielding it across the force.
CONCLUSION Te Army’s new rapid acquisition processes have empowered our PEO C3T team with new ways to use commercial technologies and synchronize existing resources to effec- tively meet the Army’s evolving network operations needs. By fueling open relation- ships with our industry partners; creating open standards and architectures that enable nontraditional vendors to compete; and leveraging prototypes, experimenta- tion and Soldier feedback to continually inform requirements and enhancements, we can arm our Soldiers with the most innovative and relevant network capability possible. To keep ahead of our near-peer adversaries, we have to remain ahead in the technology race.
For more information, go to the PEO C3T webs i te at ht tp: //
peoc3t.army.mil/c3t/ or contact the PEO C3T Public Affairs Office at 443-395-6489 or
usarmy.APG.peo-c3t.mbx.pao-
peoc3t@mail.mil.
MAJ. NICHOLAS MILANO, a basic branch engineer officer, serves as the assistant product manager for the Product Manager for Tactical Cyber and Network Operations (PM TCNO) and the project lead for the Network Manager and Codex efforts. He has an M.A. in management from American Military
University
and a B.A. in computer studies from the University of Maryland. He has been in the acquisition workforce for two years, is a member of the Army Acquisition Corps (AAC) and is Level II certified in program management.
KEITH WHITTAKER serves as the prod- uct lead for network planning in PM TCNO. Over the last five years, he has supported PEO C3T in various capacities, serving as an expert in network operations and soft- ware engineering for Army and joint service programs of record. He holds a B.S. in infor- mation systems management from Columbia Southern University, and is a member of the AAC. He is Level III certified in information technology and Level II certified in program management.
GEORGE SENGER is a computer scientist serving as the software and services assistant product manager for the Product Manager for Waveforms, and the lead engineer for Project Black Sails. Over the past few years, he has supported PEO C3T and the Project Manager for Tactical Radios as a tacti- cal radio and software engineering expert. He has an M.S. in computer science from Montclair State University and a B.A. in communications from William Patterson College. He is a member of the AAC and is Level III certified in systems engineering.
AMY WALKER has been the public affairs lead at the Project Manager for Tactical Network for the last nine years, and was the public affairs lead at PEO C3T for the previous two. She has covered a majority of the Army’s major tactical network transport modernization effort, including Army, joint and coalition fielding and training events worldwide. She holds a B.A. in psychology, with emphasis in marketing and English, from the College of New Jersey. She is a frequent contributor to Army AL&T.
Army AL&T Magazine Winter 2020
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