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TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Special operations communicators receive so much information<\/a> that they\u2019re beginning to experience what one expert calls \u201calert fatigue,\u201d putting them in danger of making fatal mistakes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response, U.S. Special Operations Command is asking industry for more capabilities <\/a>that involve less gear and simpler user interfaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cyber, computing and communications experts spoke May 19 at the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Florida, echoing concerns over the flood of information coming at special forces and calling for solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In some ways, the \u201calert fatigue\u201d is a byproduct of technological development and mass data gathering techniques, said Mark Taylor, who serves as the command\u2019s chief technical officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there\u2019s a cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe cannot put these people in jeopardy of alert fatigue in which case they now get one of another 100 blips that might have been the one that tells them they need to hit this house and not that one,\u201d Taylor said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That means less gear, fewer processes, more automation and a simpler user interface, experts agreed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think as technology grows, our communicators get more and more inundated with more technology,\u201d said Army Sgt. Maj. Matthew Jacobs, the senior enlisted adviser to SOCOM J6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He and others noted that automating some of the many tasks of a special ops communicator could reduce that mental burden, and that less gear would reduce the physical burden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think weight is a huge issue,\u201d he said. \u201cIt all goes on somebody\u2019s back.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a separate panel, Art Coon, deputy program executive officer for SOCOM\u2019s command, control, communications and computers office, provided an example of that physical burden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under their tactical communications portfolio alone, just taking into account radio technology, operators carry the legacy hand-held, man-packable radio, another hand-held radio device for specific frequency work, and the next-generation high-frequency hand-held, man-packable radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Air Force Special Tactics operators with the 24th Special Operations Wing discuss airfield operations during Emerald Warrior 22.1 at Eglin Range, Florida, May 3, 2022. (Staff Sgt. Ridge Shan\/Air Force)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But there\u2019s been progress, Coon noted: A capability once provided by a 78-pound radio system and carried by the AH-63 Apache helicopter is now available via a tactical hand-held device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To ease the cognitive load, operators need a way to effectively use multiple waveforms and data systems. A radio integration system allows for one tactical operations center to merge line-of-sight and beyond-line-of-sight devices, talk to all systems, and push data over a single network using broadband satellite communications, Coon said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s supported by satellite-deployable nodes, or broadband satellite communication terminals that can connect with the tactical local area network, connecting commanders at a major installation or in the United States directly to an operational network in the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And for contested environments, Coon said, a system called SCAMPI serves as \u201cour version of an [internet service provider].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SOCOM has those devices \u201cscattered globally\u201d to move data to forward-deployed troops, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Operators must also have the ability to quickly grab and go with their hardware and data, Coon said. \u201cI should be able to pick up my laptop or my workstation in the garrison environment, jump on a plane, fly to wherever, get off that plane, and have the connectivity on the services I need wherever I\u2019m at.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A soldier navigates through the augmented reality lab at the Center for Applied Brain and Cognitive Sciences, a cooperative research initiative between Tufts University School of Engineering and CCDC\u2019s Soldier Center. (David Kamm\/Army)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But the secret and unclassified systems don\u2019t work as well together as they should. SOCOM\u2019s chief information officer, Joe Tragakis, said that\u2019s because there are too many machines to do a basic task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019s currently looking for a way to allow an analyst to simultaneously search for data on both the classified and unclassified networks on a single machine, \u201cas opposed to the current practice of getting four, five or six different machines to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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