One trend within the military industrial base is to squeeze every ounce of use from sensors and systems deployed as a way to limit redundancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Such is the case for the Army\u2019s newly established advise-and-assist brigade in which small combat advisory teams will accompany Afghan National Army units on missions to austere locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One way the Army is looking to outfit this brigade, called the 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade, or SFAB, from a communications perspective is by taking lessons from the special operations community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve looked at some of the way the [special operations forces] community has operated. Even though we\u2019re conventional, and our leaders are conventional, we do have some leaders with experience in the unconventional realm,\u201d Maj. Tony Nocchi, the brigade\u2019s communications officer told C4ISRNET during a recent visit to the unit\u2019s training at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, LA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhat are other ways we can employ [this technology] to be able to support the commander and the commander\u2019s ability to made decisions better,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By looking at how special operations forces have employed systems in the past, \u201cit kind of opens the aperture of \u2018we can do this,\u2019\u201d Nocchi said,. He added that for the SFAB, it might be a melding of special operations and conventional uses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As an example, he said typically the Nett Warrior, a dismounted handheld system that provides the location of friendly forces and other mapping data, was fielded with 154A Rifleman radios. Now the Army is exploring radios that provide additional capabilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat\u2019s kind of a one trick radio,\u201d he said, \u201cWe were looking at what is something else that can do that – and can do more – so we went after other radios.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
While multi-function systems are the future for the military, they are especially critical for small teams that will be deploying to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":69489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":138,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[106,138,29,32,26],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3268],"class_list":["post-22978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-brief","category-network-proficiency","category-home","category-newsletters","category-special-reports"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"OLK6OBCFSJAQXNJYZR2I6JFC7Y","arc_canonical_url":"\/special-reports\/special-reports\/network-proficiency\/2018\/02\/02\/what-a-new-army-brigade-can-learn-from-the-special-ops-community\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n