Army fortified radio capabilities in 2020 to withstand electronic warfare December 22, 2020 Soldiers embedded within the C5ISR Center test the Squad Area Network capability during the Network Modernization Experiment at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., Sept. 10, 2020. The Network Modernization Experiment is held annually and serves as an opportunity to take technologies that are still maturing out of the lab as early as possible and into a fail-safe environment for assessment. (Jasmyne Douglas/U.S. Army) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army made critical advancements this year to strengthen the radios it plans to use for multidomain operations in contested and congested environments in the future.