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PIVOT TO SMALLER, FASTER


Newly modernized ESB-E network equipment set enables warfighter formations to meet the rapid pace of a near-peer fight.


by John W. Gillette, Maj. Mathew Miller and Amy Walker I


t began with a pivot.


In 2018, the Army made a calculated move away from large, static forward command- post operations, such as those seen in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to smaller, more deployable and dispersed command posts, which better suit a fight


against sophisticated potential adversaries in Europe and the Pacific. Tis pivot spurred the Army to modernize its expeditionary signal battalions to make them, and the units and command posts they support, more mobile, survivable and lethal.


Te newly modernized Expeditionary Signal Battalions ‒ Enhanced formations (ESB-E), provide or augment global network connectivity for other units that don’t have such robust, easy-to-deploy network communications equipment organically in their formations. By the end of fiscal year 2022, the Project Manager (PM) for Tactical Network, assigned to the Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications ‒ Tactical (PEO C3T), completed fielding six of these critical new signal units.


Te fielding of the Delaware Army National Guard 198th ESB-E at New Castle, Dela- ware, in August, marked the first Guard unit to be converted to an ESB-E. On the current timeline, the Army plans to convert three more units in fiscal year 2023 and will continue fielding several ESB-E packages per fiscal year until all of the expeditionary signal battal- ions have been upgraded to the baseline capability.


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