{"id":27682,"date":"2020-09-29T20:30:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T20:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2020\/09\/29\/how-new-network-tools-can-help-find-paratroopers-faster-and-improve-situational-awareness\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:27:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:27:52","slug":"how-new-network-tools-can-help-find-paratroopers-faster-and-improve-situational-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/battlefield-tech\/it-networks-battlefield-tech\/2020\/09\/29\/how-new-network-tools-can-help-find-paratroopers-faster-and-improve-situational-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"How new network tools can help find paratroopers faster and improve situational awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FORT BRAGG, N.C. \u2014 When paratroopers with the 82nd Airborne Division\u2019s First Brigade Combat Team landed in the drop zone during a night jump last week, it took leaders 45 minutes after hitting the ground to locate about 90 percent of their formation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For contrast, at an exercise early last year, the commander of that brigade didn\u2019t achieve 75 percent accountability of formation until the second day of the exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s one of the major improvements that\u2019s coming to three more Army brigades as part of Capability Set \u201921, a new set of network tools that will be fully fielded to the First Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exercise at Ft. Bragg provided a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/yahoo-syndication\/2020\/07\/30\/from-the-lab-to-the-battlefield-soldiers-put-new-network-tools-to-the-test\/\" target=_blank>soldier touch point opportunity<\/a> for the Army\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/it-networks\/2019\/03\/27\/understanding-the-armys-new-approach-to-its-tactical-network\/\" target=_blank>integrated tactical network (ITN) team<\/a>, made up of Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications-Tactical and the Network Cross-Functional Team, to hear what soldiers thought about Capability Set \u201921.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And leaders from the Army\u2019s tactical network modernization team received some important feedback: the technology works, but the training needs improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt does what we thought it would do, which is increase situational awareness up and down,\u201d Col. Andrew Saslav, commander of the 82nd Airborne\u2019s First Brigade Combat Team, said in an interview with C4ISRNET. \u201cThat\u2019s the critical thing \u2026 we don\u2019t know where people are on the battlefield unless we can talk with them. Now, I can see them and that just speeds up processing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s good news for the Army as it\u2019s set to deploy Capability Set \u201921 to three more infantry brigades in fiscal 2021. The exercise, originally scheduled for January, was delayed after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/it-networks\/2020\/01\/22\/what-a-deployment-to-the-middle-east-means-for-testing-a-new-army-network\/\" target=_blank>deployment of the brigade to Kuwait in January<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/it-networks\/2020\/07\/28\/how-covid-19-affected-the-armys-plan-for-testing-new-network-tools\/\" target=_blank>the COVID-19 pandemic<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army\u2019s tactical network modernization effort is working to provide a resilient tactical network to enable faster communications and data transfer to enable multi-domain operations (MDO) or Joint All-Domain Command and Control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur obligation is very simple: we have to make this work,\u201d said Maj. Gen. Chris Donahue, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, said at a meeting Sept. 24. \u201cAnd if it doesn\u2019t, MDO, all-domain and everything else, is a pipe dream.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Lessons learned<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2020\/09\/25\/the-army-just-conducted-a-massive-test-of-its-battlefield-artificial-intelligence-in-the-desert\/\" target=_blank>high-profile Army experiment in the Yuma, Ariz<\/a>. desert tested various future networking capabilities, this lesser known event in North Carolina found that the network tools fielded to brigades significantly improve communications, but that soldiers need improved training with the batteries and additional cables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A major difference maker is Capability Set \u201921\u2032s End User Device, a Samsung Galaxy smartphone that works in tandem with the soldier\u2019s radio to broadcast their location to all other users across the formation, as well as provides mapping capabilities. On average, the new \u201crevolutionary\u201d capability allows Saslav to see his formation 45 minutes to two hours, he said, a far cry from last year and a \u201cgame changer\u201d when it comes to fighting battles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy job is to resource those companies, troops and batteries in the fight and I do that mainly through fires, whether that\u2019s Army indirect fires, or its joint aircraft. If I can\u2019t see them, if I don\u2019t have a real-time data on where they are, then I can\u2019t support them. And so now I can support them faster more quickly, I can bring everything in closer to get that into the fight,\u201d Saslav told C4ISRNET.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The devices also allow soldiers to mark enemy positions and broadcast that information back through the rest of the formation. Shared understanding and increased situational awareness across the formation will save lives, and the EUDs increase both by an \u201cuntold variable,\u201d Saslav said, because the capability eliminates the game of \u201ctelephone\u201d played between the brigade commander and soldiers spread throughout the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another Capability Set \u201921 technology, known as the Variable Height Antenna, a tethered drone flying a TSM radio, successfully extended communications by several kilometers further than a standard, ground-based antenna would reach, the exercise found. These capabilities are a critical component of the Army\u2019s work evolving its network into a mesh network that gets away from line-of-sight communications and uses individual radios as nodes that extend the range of the network to allow soldiers to talk to each other beyond line-of-sight, across the battlespace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI can always talk to the lowest radio to the highest radio because we have this mesh network and in ITN terms, that\u2019s game changing for us,\u201d Saslav said. \u201cIt is moving us beyond line of sight, so for the first time, and that beyond line of sight is movable and fixable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the devices provide greater situational awareness, Saslav said during the exercise the location data wasn\u2019t coming in with specific identifiers for what dots representing locations meant. But, in a way that highlighted the DevOps approach that the Army is taking to the modernization of its tactical network, the software was updated during the exercise because the vendor was in the field, Saslav said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, the Army discovered some linkage challenges between the radio and device, finding that the radio and device would lose the link between them if they were switched off. Leaders in the field want the devices to connect automatically so soldiers don\u2019t have to connect them together themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>A new approach to training<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But one major challenge Army tactical network officials learned from talking to soldiers using the equipment on the ground was that the training process for teaching soldiers how to use the equipment needed to improve. The radio and EUD are connected together to broadcast location information, but soldiers were trained to use the devices separately. But since the devices need to be used as a system, leaders learned that the soldiers needed to be trained on how the system works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat needs to happen is soldiers need to be trained with the equipment as they are worn and functions as an overall network because everything affects everything else,\u201d said Capt. Brian Delgado, S6 of the 82nd Airborne Division\u2019s first Brigade Combat Team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that network can be affected differently depending on the terrain. So while classroom training on the devices is important for the soldiers to learn the technology, they also need to learn how to use the technology in the field and how the terrain can affect it. Capt. Matthew Kane, S6 of the first brigade\u2019s 3rd Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, told C4ISRNET that his big takeaway was adjustments to training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt needs to be as hands on as possible,\u201d Kane said. \u201cYou need to get in the terrain and actually test the radio. The classroom won\u2019t cut it just because it\u2019s no longer programming the radio and walking away.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These new capabilities also mean soldiers must carry more batteries and more cables with them. Col. Garth Winterle, project manager for tactical radios at PEO C3T, said that the team identified a couple issues with battery life, one that requires training soldiers different configurations to optimize battery life. The other battery life problem was addressed through a firmware update by the vendor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several Army personnel in the field also noted that soldiers needed to be taught best practices for cable management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Soldiers \u201cweren\u2019t experts on how it\u2019s powered or how to manage cables and that\u2019s not a fault of the paratroopers,\u201d Delgado said. \u201cThat\u2019s a fault with the way that we were addressing training.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the Army perfects Capability Set \u201921 and moves forward with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/c2-comms\/2020\/05\/07\/where-the-next-iteration-of-the-armys-network-capabilities-is-heading\/\" target=_blank>Capability Set \u201923, its next iteration of network tools<\/a>, it will continue to rely on the feedback of soldiers to ensure that technology works, while being simple and intuitive enough for the user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe beauty of it is that feedback we\u2019re going to get because [which] soldier right now has a really good idea that\u2019s going to make this better? 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