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PEO C3T, the Army\u2019s Network Cross-Functional Team and its research partner the C5ISR Center, which makes up the core of the service\u2019s tactical network modernization located at APG, are now working to modify tactical network tools to fit into Stryker vehicles and set a common baseline for future capability sets. That way, the tactical network team doesn\u2019t have to \u201credesign the whole thing\u201d for each new capability set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The group is working with the 2nd Cavalry Regiment in Vilseck, Germany, to integrate Capability Set \u201921 tools onto Strykers and help improve the network design of Capability Set \u201923, which undergoes critical design review in April next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The service is integrating several new hardware tools onto Strykers, including tactical servers and Wi-Fi capabilities, to improve soldiers\u2019 situational awareness. The Army wants Stryker vehicles to connect to each other and dismounted soldiers both on-the-move and at-the-halt. The service plans out outfit 64 vehicles in the 2nd Cavalry Regiment with the CS21 gear and is running a communications exercise before the Stryker brigade goes to Saber Junction, a major United States Army Europe and Africa exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Perhaps most importantly, company commanders\u2019 vehicles will have a tool that integrates unclassified and classified data into a single common operating picture \u2014 a small box called a cross-domain solution, a critical new capability for commanders. Winterle said that commanders usually have a secret and unclassified common operating picture, but they have never been integrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c[By] actually putting the cross-domain solution on platform, you\u2019re getting that integration right there on the platform for the first time so that the vehicle commander … can now see everything. Vehicle icons, he can see his dismounts,\u201d Winterle said. \u201cHe\u2019s got full visibility of where things are so if he has to call for fire or he has to make key decisions on maneuver, or link up to reload his dismounts, he can do that on one screen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Network modernization is a priority for the Army as it prepares for future conflicts against advanced adversaries including China and Russia, and it requested a $537 million increase over fiscal 2021 in its 2022 budget request. For FY21, the PEO C3T received $1.76 billion for modernization efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Back inside the Stryker, the dismounted soldiers raiding the fake depot appeared as blue dots that moved in coordination with their location on the Joint Battle Command Platform, a command and control tool inside the vehicle. Those soldiers on the ground could mark enemies\u2019 positions and their weapons cache on their devices, which transferred that information to the JBCP inside the Stryker. While soldiers are inside the Stryker, their own chest devices sync up and receive communications through a Wi-Fi bubble on board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWith this you can tell where you\u2019re at on the road, it\u2019s directional,\u201d said Sgt. Zach Sheets, one of the demonstrators. \u201cIt\u2019s got everything you need to tell what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s all part of the Army\u2019s goal of providing its soldiers and commanders with the most up-to-date information on the battlefield to quicken the decision-making process, a critical capability as the Pentagon talks about Joint All-Domain Command and Control, in which commanders and soldiers have the latest information on the battlefield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When soldiers dismount, they switch their end user devices to transmit through their tactical radios so they remain connected to the tactical network to send out data. Sgt. Shane Smolskis, who participated in the demonstration, said that flipping between the radio connectivity and Stryker Wi-Fi is \u201cpretty simple,\u201d positive feedback for the Army network team focused on making tools easy for soldiers to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another participant, Sgt. Breanna Bowie, added to that: \u201cThe newest private in the Army can pretty much use the system.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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