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 high-end fights against near-peer adversaries.
To achieve its network goals, the Army is pursuing a series of two-year capability sets. Each set has a number of design objectives including: unified network; common operating environment; joint interoperability/coalition accessible; and command post mobility/survivability, according to the service.
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 technology to increase network resiliency as part of its next iteration of tactical network tools. Adding low-Earth orbit and medium-Earth orbit capabilities commercial satellite constellations into the service’s tactical network repertoire is part of the service’s effort to shift to dispersed battlefields, instead of the fixed fiber communications and forward operating bases that defined the last two decades of war in the Middle East.
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 20, 2021 at 6:01 AM
Technicians work with a robot’s control system during last fall’s Project Convergence wargames.
WASHINGTON: Hundreds of scientists, engineers, and support staff at nine locations worked feverishly earlier this month testing dozens of technologies ahead of this fall’s joint Project Convergence wargames. The hub for the event, Communications Exercise (COMEX) 2, was a new facility at the Army’s Aberdeen, Md. C5ISR Center, the Joint Systems Integration Laboratory.
Gen. James McConville
The JSIL was touted by no less a figure than Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville – normally not one to get into the technical weeds – in a recent Brookings webcast:
The Army’s faster way to field tactical network gear gets its first big test Mark Pomerleau
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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 equipment improvements allowed the 1st Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division to communicate clearly across greater distances than in the past up to about 28 miles, said Lt. Col. Andy Harris, commander of the brigade’s 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment.
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