{"id":32415,"date":"2023-05-17T12:35:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T12:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2023\/05\/17\/for-command-post-survival-us-army-wants-more-mobility-and-concealment\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:37:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:37:55","slug":"for-command-post-survival-us-army-wants-more-mobility-and-concealment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/battlefield-tech\/2023\/05\/17\/for-command-post-survival-us-army-wants-more-mobility-and-concealment\/","title":{"rendered":"For command post survival, US Army wants more mobility and concealment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Army wants to make its command posts nimbler and more easily concealable to survive intense, widespread fights of the future, and it\u2019s pulling lessons from the invasion of Ukraine to inform the effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Command posts of the past were relatively stationary, cumbersome to set up and break down, and often identifiable by the heat, noise and electronic artifacts they give off. Such easy targets will not cut it in a fight against China or Russia, world powers with mature sensing and targeting capabilities<\/a>, according to Army officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the service is investing in several projects to make the battlefield hubs hardier, including what are known as Command Post Integrated Infrastructure and the less-mature Mobile and Survivable Command Post. The former combines trucks with communication nodes and off-the-shelf commercial technologies for intuitive use. The latter could feature remote antenna systems, enhanced camouflage techniques and self-sufficient power generation and banking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFive years ago, two years ago, we spent a day setting up a command post and then we spend a day tearing it down, so the command post was never able to really fight,\u201d Ward Roberts, the assistant program executive officer for command, control and communications-tactical, or PEO C3T, said at a virtual C4ISRNET event<\/a> May 16. \u201cNow, the idea is that commander needs to be maneuvering the command post as well as maneuvering his elements.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBetween the ability to move the command post around and the efforts to reduce the ability to detect the command post \u2014 two lines of effort really driving at solving that problem of \u2018how do we make the command post survivable,\u2019\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A conflict with either China or Russia would mean defending against an array of eager eyes and ears: drones overhead<\/a>, signals intelligence capabilities that can cue in on communications, and other long-range sensors. Commanders need to understand their footprint, Ward said, as well as how to manipulate the hardware they have in hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\t