ARMY AL&T
As technology advances, the Army will continue to make the ESB-E kit even more intuitive and easier to use, decreasing training requirements, expense and unit burden.
SOLDIER FEEDBACK LOOP Te key to the success of the Army’s signal battalion modernization effort continues to be the ongoing feedback the service receives from each unit. Tis feedback is used to inform decisions to modify elements such as Soldier-centric design changes to the equipment, basis of issue and training and fielding improvements. Unit input is also critical to modern- ization efforts that integrate emerging technologies into the network, such as high-throughput, low-latency multi-orbit satellite communication capabilities.
Direct observations from operational units enable the Army to assess and modify maturing technologies before final field- ing efforts, creating efficiencies in time and cost, while getting new capabilities into the hands of Soldiers faster to retain over- match against tech-savvy threats.
The agile ESB-E acquisition and fielding approach aligns with the Army’s two-year iterative network modernization capability-set design and fielding process, enabling the service to enhance the ESB-E baseline capability in future capability sets if Soldier feedback warrants it, or when emerging commercial technologies become mature enough to be procured.
In line with the Army’s capability-set development, the service leverages a DevSecOps process—including early and often industry collaboration, informed experimentation in operational and laboratory environments, and ongoing Soldier
input from training, f ield
exercises, and real-world unit support— to inform decisions on continual ESB-E modernization, design, unit formation, and tactics, techniques and procedures.
CONTINUOUS LOOP In support of these efforts, PEO C3T continues to work as a holistic team with industry partners, the operational units, the Army’s Network Cross-Functional Team and the C5ISR Center, both assigned to the Army Futures Command. Since the conclusion of the first ESB-E pilot in 2019, this team-of-teams continues to leverage an ongoing Soldier feedback loop, listening intently to Soldier input, and then reaching out to the science and technology community and industry for solutions based on common faults, and implementing those solutions and adjustments.
Following the first ESB-E equipped in 2020—the 50th ESB-E at Fort Bragg, North Carolina—the PM Tactical
LINE OF SIGHT
Soldiers set up a Terrestrial Transmission Line of Sight Radio on Oct. 3 in Baumholder, Germany. (Photo by 44th ESB-E)
Network never stopped putting unit obser- vations to work to address operational challenges.
One of the biggest changes the team made based on ESB-E feedback concerned new equipment training and fielding. In the past, Soldiers were narrowly focused on certain military occupational specialties, and each Soldier was trained according to their specific specialty, such as a satel- lite terminal or baseband operator and
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