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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 high-end fights against near-peer adversaries. To achieve its network goals, the Army is pursuing a s...