{"id":31835,"date":"2020-01-22T03:10:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T03:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2020\/01\/22\/what-a-deployment-to-the-middle-east-means-for-testing-a-new-army-network\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:24:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:24:43","slug":"what-a-deployment-to-the-middle-east-means-for-testing-a-new-army-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2020\/01\/22\/what-a-deployment-to-the-middle-east-means-for-testing-a-new-army-network\/","title":{"rendered":"What a deployment to the Middle East means for testing a new Army network"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After a U.S. drone strike killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Pentagon leaders sent a brigade from the 82nd Airborne Division <\/a>to Kuwait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that brigade had been slated to serve as the test unit for the first part of the Army\u2019s new Integrated Tactical Network, known as capability set 2021, and which is made up of a mix of existing programs of record and commercial off-the-shelf capabilities and is expected to improve communications and situational awareness from command post to the tactical edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, Army officials said Jan. 21 they plan on using a series of events to validate the first full delivery of its modernized tactical network to four brigades in 2021 rather than a single test event.<\/p>\n\n\n\t