{"id":49623,"date":"2020-07-31T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2020\/07\/31\/soldiers-tout-new-network-tool-as-a-game-changer\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:31:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:31:26","slug":"soldiers-tout-new-network-tool-as-a-game-changer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2020\/07\/31\/soldiers-tout-new-network-tool-as-a-game-changer\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldiers tout new network tool as a \u2018game changer\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army\u2019s first iteration of new network tools, known as Capability Set \u201921, was heavily influenced by existing network gaps identified by the 82nd Airborne on more than a year\u2019s worth of deployments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Capt. Brian Delgado, S6 of the 82nd Airborne Division\u2019s 1st Brigade Combat Team, the \u201cbiggest game changer\u201d for soldiers in the field provided in the integrated tactical network kit of Capability Set \u201921 was the secure but unclassified environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The SBU environment allows soldiers to more easily share and receive information. In the current network, information that flows through the network is classified, and many lower-level users don\u2019t have proper clearances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cArmy operational construct requires battalion formations to conduct combined arms missions, but today\u2019s network does not support the battalion\u2019s organic capacity to deconflict an air picture, nor an ability to combine dismounted, mounted, fires, intelligence and air pictures into a combined operating picture (COP),\u201d Delgado said. \u201cPart of this challenge is due to the fact that dismounted and most mounted COP tools like Nett Warrior (NW) and Joint Battle Command-Platform resided on the Secret enclave. The vast majority of users at the tactical level do not possess Secret clearances, which makes sharing and receiving key information difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Capability Set \u201921 lets soldiers securely share controlled unclassified information across the network, allowing war fighters on the ground to receive important information regardless of their security clearance. With the new tools, the Army moved from a 100 percent classified network to a 75 percent SBU network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis means we now were able to use software applications at the Unclassified level in a tactical environment. SBU allowed the utilization of tactical software like the Tactical Assault Kit (TAK) to provide a [combined operating picture] down to the lowest level of leaders,\u201d Delgado said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Col. Garth Winterle, project manager for tactical radios at Army Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications-Tactical, said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/c2-comms\/2020\/05\/13\/the-army-network-plan-to-compete-everything\/\" target=_blank>in a May interview with C4ISRNET that<\/a> the SBU architecture \u201dopens the door for a lot of different things,\u201d including improved information sharing with coalition partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The integrated tactical network kit also unifies the disparate operating picture into a single digital operating picture. The combined operating picture \u201cdirectly reduces risk in the clearance of fires, combat air support and maneuvering in widely dispersed formations,\u201d Delgado said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt allowed battalion commanders to fight teams in a dispersed manner that would have been impossible with legacy systems, and therefore greatly reduced the risk to the battalion combat power that enemy indirect fires commonly present,\u201d Delgado added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Capability Set \u201921 was focused on solving immediate network capability gaps with current technology, while also making network hardware far more expeditionary and while improving network transport capabilities. The capability set includes new radios as well as smaller and lighter servers and satellite terminals. It was designed through collaboration between Army PEO C3T and the Army Network Cross-Functional Team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army completed critical design review of Capability Set \u201921 earlier this year and started procuring new tools this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right now, the \u201cmajority\u201d of the Army\u2019s command-and-control systems sit on large vehicles that aren\u2019t useful on expeditionary operations, Delgado said. With the new technology, the integrated tactical network \u201cseparated these systems from vehicles, allowing for more network access during early expeditionary operations that we performed,\u201d reducing the reliance on vehicles and allowing soldiers to dismount systems based on needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Delgado said the new integrated tactical network, or ITN, hardware is \u201corders of magnitude\u201d smaller than existing tools, providing more flexibility in how units choose command-and-control equipment for operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe were able to load a battalion tactical operations center worth of equipment onto a nonstandard small tactical vehicle, and then move it in a matter of hours onto a UH-60 [Black Hawk helicopter] to function as a true command aircraft,\u201d Delgado said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Capability Set \u201921 ITN kit also includes radio waveforms that are more resilient, and it allows for data transmission. The 82nd Airborne has previously been reliant on the Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System as well as the Soldier Radio Waveform for tactical radio communications, but Delgado said that both had \u201climitations regarding their effectiveness and survivability for distributed formations,\u201d and that they didn\u2019t allow for SBU transmissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army is investing several new radios with more resilient waveforms as part of its modernization initiative, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/c2-comms\/2018\/09\/21\/army-makes-strides-toward-network-modernization-with-much-anticipated-radio-award\/\" target=_blank>the two-channel leader radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe ITN presents a significant increase in radio resiliency while operating in a contested environment. 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