McLEAN, Va. \u2014 A U.S. Army office tasked with improving battlefield connectivity is now tinkering with a combination of armored vehicles and advanced communications gear, as the service prepares for larger, more-dispersed fights with heftier formations and ordnance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Program Executive Office for Command, Control and Communications-Tactical, or PEO C3T, has in recent months increasingly focused on what is known as Capability Set 25, an expected assemblage of commercial, off-the-shelf technologies<\/a> and specialized military equipment, all with the Army division, a footprint of 15,000 soldiers and firepower, in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe day of the Army building its own capabilities only, and deploying them, are gone. It will always be a mix of commercial and military-unique capabilities, and that\u2019s what\u2019s going to make us effective,\u201d Lt. Gen. John Morrison, the service\u2019s top uniformed information-technology official, said last month at the Army IT Day conference, hosted by the Northern Virginia chapter of the communications- and electronics-focused group AFCEA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAnd all of us must be in,\u201d he added<\/a>, \u201cbecause, quite frankly, our adversaries are all-in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t