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Army delivers new tactical network to 10th Mountain Division
Soldiers will soon be able to cover greater distances, make quicker decisions and share more information using the Army’s new tactical communications network, according to leaders of the first unit to receive the equipment. Through mobile communications technology that connects all echelons of a brigade combat team down to the dismounted Soldier, the Capability Set [...]
Army Celebrates First Generation Network Fielding Completion
The Army’s current tactical communications wide area network backbone, Warfighter Information Network-Tactical, or WIN-T, Increment 1, hit a major milestone when it celebrated the final fielding of the last unit identified to receive the system. “Because of WIN-T Increment 1, we are a more capable and lethal force,” said Col. Ed Swanson, project manager, or [...]
Canada may bar China from telecoms project
Canada said Tuesday it had invoked a “national security exception” that could exclude China’s Huawei Technologies from a role in helping build its new super secure government network. Ottawa announced the move after the US House Intelligence Committee on Monday warned in Washington that equipment supplied by two Chinese firms, Huawei Technologies and ZTE Inc., [...]
BAE Launches New Family of Networking Radios
BAE Systems has launched the Phoenix family of networking radios to meet the 21st century communications needs of the U.S. military. Filling the gap between higher headquarters and the warfighter, Phoenix radios deliver secure, jam-resistant communications on the battlefield via modern networking waveforms. BAE Systems has responded to the U.S. Army’s request for a non-developmental [...]
Army successfully demonstrates tactical operations smart grid
The U.S. Army demonstrated a proof of concept for a smart grid that could support tactical operations, this summer at its integrated capabilities testbed at Fort Dix, N.J. The U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command’s communications-electronics RD& E Center, or CERDEC, powered portions of a Tactical Operations Center and used the event to gather [...]
Communication exercises in full swing as Army preps for its next large-scale network test
In preparation for the Army’s Network Integration Evaluation 13.1, the System of Systems Integration Directorate, with support from the Army Test and Evaluation Command, the Brigade Modernization Command and the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, kicked off a four-week-long network validation exercise, last month. Designed to “load” the network throughout the brigade and [...]
Mobile Devices Offer Fast Decisions, Productivity, DoD Says
Mobile devices are becoming the way we communicate, and the Defense Department views that change as an opportunity, the department’s deputy chief information officer for command, control, communications and computers and information infrastructure said Sept. 28. Air Force Maj. Gen. Robert E. Wheeler told American Forces Press Service and the Pentagon Channel that National Cyber [...]
Army examines feasibility of integrating 4G LTE with tactical network
The U.S. Army employed a 4G cellular network this summer at its integrated capabilities testbed at Fort Dix, N.J.; this was done to address integration with current network designs and to enable actionable intelligence for dismounted squads. The U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command’s communications-electronics RD&E center, or CERDEC, enabled a mounted/hand-held computing environment [...]
Thales Awarded Second Contract for AN/PRC-154 Rifleman Radios
Thales Communications, Inc. announces that the U.S. Army has awarded the second Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) contract for AN/PRC-154 Rifleman Radios, part of the Joint Tactical Radio System Handheld, Manpack, and Small Form Fit (JTRS HMS) program. General Dynamics C4 Systems is the prime contractor for the JTRS HMS program, and Thales is responsible [...]
