Page 3 - Capability Set News Today

The Army's capability set venture kicked off in 2021, with special attention paid to infantry. Additional batches of gear are expected every two years.

/PRNewswire/ -- Silvus Technologies, Inc. ("Silvus") today announced the award of a $2.4 million order from the U.S. Army to provide StreamCaster mobile ad hoc...

New intelligence and electronic-warfare tools aim to help commanders get data faster.

“So what this does is allow us now to move and be more mobile on the battlefield and get out of the way [of] adversaries capabilities to take out our command post," Brig. Gen. Jeth Rey said. "So this is really going to enhance what we’re doing, making this lighter, mobile, less detected.” 

The cuts suggested by the committee will set back progress made by the Army on its network and radio modernization efforts, a service official told Breaking Defense.

"NetModX is a great testbed for us to kind of understand how our investments are working out as they graduate from a lab setting and make adjustments as needed to be able to get the most value out of those investment areas that we have," Joseph Welch, director of the C5ISR Center, said.

Army Continues Build Up of Integrated Tactical Network

The Future Combat System’s concept of an interconnected or “networked” force continues to inform and inspire current notions of warzone networking.

A software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) can establish a data fabric capable of dealing with any tactical edge scenario where reliable WAN is needed.

"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."