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Soldiers assigned to the “Spartan Brigade,” 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, completed new equipment training for the Army’s Armored Formation On-The-Move Network pilot on Jan. 21 and then commenced on Jan. 24 at Fort Stewart.

The Afghanistan withdrawal and the consolidation of all in-country military networks to one base at Hamid Karzai International Airport illustrated unique challenges with direct applicability to Joint All Domain Command and Control and future Project Convergences.

"The future network must be high-speed, it must be high-capacity, it must be multi-path, and ubiquitous to the user," said Brig. Gen. Jeth Rey, director of the Army's Network Cross-Functional Team.

"If there's one thing DoD and industry have done, it's try a whole bunch of different tools over the last 10 to 12 years. What we have to do now is string them all together to show which ones work best for the capabilities the Army needs today and divest the ones that they don't need," Peraton VP Jennifer Napper said.

Army Readies New Tech for Communications Modernization BATTLEFIELD COMMUNICATIONS 7/6/2021 Army photo by Justin Eimers The Army is gearing up for Project Convergence 2021 where it will field a number of new modernized tactical communications technologies. Network modernization is one of the top priorities being spearheaded by Army Futures Command. The new capabilities are intended to improve the capacity and resiliency of the service in order to compete in h...

Army Network CFT Appoints New Director Brig. Gen. Jeth Rey has been appointed the new director of the U.S. Army’s Network Modernization Cross-Functional Team (CFT), succeeding former director Maj. Gen. Peter Gallagher, who retired from the Army in May. The N-CFT is a part of the Army Futures Command – the newest four-star led command –stood up to focus on emerging tech and future battlefield weapons. Under the leadership of Gallagher, the first director of the N-CFT, the Army rolled out c...

Army Tests Network Capabilities at Joint Readiness Training Center BATTLEFIELD COMMUNICATIONS 6/30/2021 Defense Dept. photo Soldiers are testing new tactical gear in support of the Army’s efforts to modernize its network capabilities. The service has been embarking on a series of capability sets as it works to advance its connectivity through Army Futures Command’s network cross-functional team. Technology developed under Capability Set 21 was recently pu...

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...

Army Light Infantry, Stryker and Armored Forces Are Getting This Advanced Comms Gear A forward observer with the 82nd Airborne uses AN/PRC 148 2-channel Leader radio to transmit position location information obtained from the Android Tactical Assault Kit (ATAK) during a live fires exercise at Camp Atterbury, Indiana in January 2019 (U.S. Army/Justin Eimers) 7 May 2021 U.S. Army modernization officials are pushing forward with a plan to outfit light infantry, Stryker and armored combat brigades ...

How commercial satellite constellations fit into the Army’s future tactical network designs 4 hours ago U.S. Army Paratroopers assigned to 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, assemble a satellite antenna in 2019 in Slovenia. The Army is looking for smaller satellite terminals for low-Earth and medium-Earth orbit capabilities. (Paolo Bovo/U.S. Army) JOINT BASE MYER‐HENDERSON HALL, Va. — The U.S. Army will begin implementing advanced satellite communications...