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ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Maryland — To provide cyber and electronic warfare environment visualization tools to maneuver forces, the Army recently provided the III Armored Corps, headquartered at Fort Hood, with

"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.

"What you’re going to see is a greater level of detail and maturity for not just leveraging commercial cloud computing, but really how that starts to extend into our on-premise locations, how this starts to extend into our tactical locations," Paul Puckett, director of the Army's Enterprise Cloud Management Office said.

Various commands are trying out the service's cArmy infrastructure for common operating pictures, training, and more.

How the service plans to use cloud computing — from boardrooms to the battlefield

The US Army is moving closer to providing soldiers inside Stryker formations with the ability to operate over its Integrated Tactical Network (ITN), both inside vehicles and on foot, and recently completed a technical test with its Capabilit...

The Army and the Defense Information Systems Agency are expanding the use of hybrid cloud setups in new environments.

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.

Army CIO Raj Iyer said the service is moving away from “traditional ways” of pulling data as it looks to build "a Command Post Computing Environment of the future."

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.