August 25, 2015 COL James P. Ross, USA Military Deputy to the Armaments Research, Development and Engineering Center Project Manager Tactical Radios COL Michael J. Thurston, USA Project Manager Mission Command Key highlights include how developers have implemented Soldier feedback into improved operational network capability, fielding priorities for Army network Capability Set efforts, and discussion of needed technology to enhance these capabilities.

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TechNet Augusta 2015
Engagement Theater Session 3:
Expeditionary Network Communications
COL James Ross, Project Manager Tactical Radios
COL Michael Thurston, Project Manager Mission Command
Program Executive Office for Command, Control and Communications-Tactical
Augusta Marriott at the Convention Center
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Army Mission Command Network
Institutional
Capability Set
Other Installations/
Centers of
Excellence (CoE)
Cloud-based training environment
Unit Work & Training Areas
Mission
Training
Complex
Home Station
Mission Command
Ctrs, rear CPs
Deployed
Forces
Unit Tactical
Networks
Soldier self-
development
(BYOD)
Education Facilities
“Uninterrupted Mission Command”
Enroute
Common User Experience across Echelons, Formations, Phases
Home Station Deployed
Training & Readiness
Mobile, Protected Network
Distributed Command Posts
Source: ARCIC, “The Mission Command Network Vision and Narrative”, v2.0, dated 11 Dec 2014
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SATCOM network in Afghanistan for
Operation Resolute Support
WIN-T Inc 2 mobile network
“hotspots” support Soldiers during
Afghan elections
Tactical radios provide “digital
guardian angel” during advise-
and-assist missions
Deployable SATCOM terminals
support operational needs in Iraq
JCR/BFT enables mission
command on the move in Korea
National Guard fielded with new
capabilities for communications with
local first responders
Networking Soldiers, NGOs for
Ebola response
In FY14 PEO C3T successfully fielded software baseline upgrades to 75
Army and National Guard prioritized units around the world
Support fielding of European Activity Set
and provide C4ISR field support to units
engaged in Operation Atlantic Resolve
PEO C3T: Globally Responsive
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We Still Have Work To Do
• Reduce System Complexity
• Incorporate Interoperability of Systems
• Simplify the Network:Acting on Soldier feedback
– Reduced startup and shutdown times
– Intuitive user interfaces,tactical apps
– Agile command posts to enable expeditionary operations
– Streamlining UnitTask Reorganization and network initialization
• Field Support Realignment
– Units taking ownership of communications systems
– Army collecting trouble ticket data to continuously right-size support
– Increasing FSR/DSE system-of-systems knowledge
• System of Systems Training Approach
– Unit leadership emphasis is critical; key leader training encourages engagement
– Unit-developed“sustainmenttraining” keeps skills sharp during turnover
– Crew drills promote holistic understanding of Capability Set systems
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Near Term Network Enhancements
Converge & Protect
the Network
Enabling Expeditionary
Operations
Simplified Command Post
Operations
Rapid Unit Task
Reorganization
Mid-tier Networking Vehicular
Radios (MNVR),
Transport Convergence Ph 1,
Cyber Security
En-route Mission Command Capability
(EMC2)*,
Mobile User Objective System (MUOS),
Transportable Tactical Command
Communications (T2C2) Lite**
Common Operating Environment (COE) v2,
CP WiFi***,
Homestation Mission Command
OTA Management,
On-Demand Information
Networking (ODIN)
MNVR: Two-channel, vehicle-
integrated radio providing medium-
speed data connectivity that links
lower and higher echelon terrestrial
networks through a Mid-Tier network
using Wideband Networking
Waveform (WNW)
Transport Convergence: Phase 1
convergence of mission command
and intelligence networks onto a WIN-
T backbone network
Cyber Security: Enhanced Cyber
SA & patching, stronger tactical
authentication, and tactical Cyber
COP sharable with Enterprise
EMC2: Transport plane-integrated
communications package providing Mission
Command applications & infrastructure and
Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) satellite
connectivity for continuous, in-transit, mission
command synchronization from garrison to
theater
MUOS: Satellite voice and low-speed data
connectivity for disconnected users
T2C2 Lite: Small-form factor satellite
communications package providing voice and
medium speed data connectivity to small
company and team sized units in the early
phases of joint operations.
CP CE v2: Command Post Mission Command
Computing Environment that converges on
common server infrastructure, uses universal
clients, and delivers some mission command
services via web browser-based widgets
Command Post (CP) WiFi: Secure
commercial-based wireless local area network
devices to simplify Command Post setup and
operations
Homestation Mission Command:
Standardized Installation as a Docking Station
(IaaDS) capabilities, an initial, Net-Enabled
Integrated Training Environment (ITE) to the
tactical edge, and a CONUS-based Division
TOC enabling a deployed, mobile Division TAC
****
Software-based NetOps tools and
integrated design to enable over-the-
air (OTA) reconfiguration of tactical
radios and the warfighter to join radio
networks on demand (On Demand
Information Networking (ODIN))
enabled by implementation of the
Mounted Computing Environment
* - Fielding planned for units supporting the Global Response Force in this timeframe
** - Fielding planned for select BCTs in this timeframe
*** - Fielding planned for WIN-T Inc 1-equipped units in this timeframe
**** - Efforts underway to refine operational scope & materiel alternatives
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connects to
network
backbone
Delivering the Radio Marketplace
ground-level
connectivity
across echelons
bridges
Army
network
Next Gen Radios
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Manpack Radio
• Reduce weight
• Surface temperature
• SATCOM Integrated Waveform in
time for FRP
Meeting Tactical Radio needs
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Rifleman Radio
• Objective requirement for two channels
Mid-tier Networking Vehicular Radios (MNVR)
• Increase range

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Mounted Infrastructure
Command Post Infrastructure
MissionCommandModernization
Interoperable
via Control Points
Integrated
via Common Architecture,
Infrastructure Services,
Unified Data
Current COE V3 (Objective)
• Common Capabilities on all converged HW
• Unified Data
• Common Maps
• Common Services & SDKs
JCR JBCP + MFoCs
NOC
BCCS IFS
+
CP CE
+
Smart Clients & some Web Clients
CPOF AFATDS TMC DCGS-A Web
• Separate Systems
• Separate Data
• Separate Maps
• Separate Services
HSMCCs
MTS TIGR
Command Post & Mounted Mission
Command Modernization Strategy
Apps for Warfighting
Functions
CP
Mounted
Web Clients & some Smart Clients
ADOPTING COMMERCIAL APPROACH FOR RAPID APPS DEVELOPMENT
Enabling Mission Command Anywhere, Anytime, on Any Device, for Any Mission
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MVR FIRES INTEL LOG

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Your Questions
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