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 with advanced radios and communications kits designed to speed decision-making even under sophisticated enemy jamming attacks. We want to give them radios and systems that allow the data to flow in a contested environment, Maj. Gen. Peter Gallagher, director of the Army Network Cross-Functional Team, told defense reporters Tuesday at a tactical network demonstration at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia.
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.
Getting away from ‘anything goes’: Military leaders set data standards for joint war fighting January 27 U.S. Army Col. Matt Eberhart, the Commanders Initiatives Group (CIG) director with North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) NORTHCOM, speaks in 2020 about the Advanced Battle Management System Onramp 2, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. ABMS is the Air Force s contribution to Joint All-Domain Command and Control. (Senior Airman Daniel Hernandez/U.S. Air Force) ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. Top military leaders signified a new level of cooperation on joint war fighting in an all-day meeting Jan. 26 to hash out data standards to connect the services’ largely disparate projects to work together to compete against Russia and China.
Congress allots about half the money requested for Army command post modernization program December 23, 2020 The Army wants to make its command posts more mobile and better able to survive. (Richard Bumgardner/Army) WASHINGTON Congress granted partial funding for an Army tactical network program to modernize command posts after the effort hit delays. In the earlier House version the fiscal 2021 budget bill, lawmakers proposed eliminating funds for the program, called Command Post Integrated Infrastructure (CPI2), citing the request as “ahead of need.” In the final compromise, which President Donald Trump still has to sign, lawmakers opted to give the program $23 million of about $50 million requested by the Army Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications-Tactical (PEO C3T), the modernization team’s acquisition arm.