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"Do we need to a have a radio in every vehicle?" Col. Shermoan Daiyaan said. "Do we need to have one radio per team? Or is it one radio per squad?”

"It's very, very tempting to continue to spend money on technologies that are 10 years old because we've gotten comfortable with them," Army CIO Raj Iyer said. "That's not what's going to help us fight and win...for the Army of 2030."

"...[W]hen you have a living and breathing threat, you need to think about the things such as a contested and congested environment,” Maj. Gen. Rob Collins, the service’s program executive officer for command, control, communications-tactical (PEO C3T) said.

All the shelters in the new system come pre-wired for workstations, which helps eliminate much of the setup time. Anyone who has ever been to a command post for the last 15 years knows how much electrical cabling runs around the tents. And, the use of pop-up shelters instead of tents makes quite a difference as well.

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on June 02, 2021 at 3:27 PM A paratrooper puts together a radio. WASHINGTON: Despite cuts to Army modernization writ large, funding to upgrade battlefield networks is up 25 percent in the service’s 2022 budget request, rising $537 million to a total of $2.7 billion. That’s more money than requested for any of the Army’s other modernization priorities, said the Army’s acting assistant secretary for acquisition, Doug Bush, in remarks to industry this mornin...

The Army’s faster way to field tactical network gear gets its first big test Mark Pomerleau keyboard_arrow_down The Army is looking for critical feedback before it begins fielding its modernized network equipment to new units in 2021. (Sgt. 1st Class Zach VanDyke/U.S. Army) FORT POLK, La. — Paratroopers testing the Army’s latest communications equipment jumped into a sprawling field surrounded by dense woods and moved north upon landing in an effort to secure the area. Significant equi...