{"id":16473,"date":"2019-09-26T15:50:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T15:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2019\/09\/26\/heres-how-the-army-is-making-last-minute-network-fixes\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:57:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:57:48","slug":"heres-how-the-army-is-making-last-minute-network-fixes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/battlefield-tech\/2019\/09\/26\/heres-how-the-army-is-making-last-minute-network-fixes\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s how the Army is making last-minute network fixes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A new, more realistic verification process will help the Army work out software bugs and hitches in networking equipment it fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the past, such verification and validation processes, as they\u2019re called, would be executed mostly in a lab with virtualized equipment. Now, however, the Army is taking the extra step of bringing all the gear out of the lab and actually testing it live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEssentially, we take the actual set of equipment that we\u2019re going to give to the unit and we stand up the network. Nothing is virtualized, it\u2019s not server stacks \u2014 we have everything radiating, everything turned on just like the unit would have it with their actual equipment,\u201d Capt. Jonathon Dodge, assistant product manager in program manager tactical radios within Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications-Tactical, told C4ISRNET during a September trip to Fort Bragg, North Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time, the Army was testing equipment to be delivered to the 1st Infantry Brigade Combat Team\/82nd Airborne Division, located at Fort Bragg, which will be the first full brigade to test the integrated tactical network, or ITN, that the Army intends to field in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\t