The deployment of 3D printers and other additive manufacturing tools will be needed in the INDOPACOM theater given the "tyranny of distance," said Gen. Ronald Clark, commanding general of Army Pacific.
After exercises, soldiers said they want to see better edge computing, mobile pLEO solutions and more.
The network transport architecture for NGC2 could be a hybrid approach that combines high assurance communications with 5G, WiFi, and multi-orbit satellites.
Ground platform situational awareness is critical as vehicle crew survivability depends upon it.
“Maybe it didn't work the way we wanted to, but we have the capability of giving feedback to the Army, to development, to industry to try and make it work a little bit better,” said Command Sgt. Maj. Shaun Curry.
"So instead of building something from the beginning, that's one big thing, and that our soldiers are just going to take winches to and take apart anyway, this allows us to build something that's a little bit more modular,” said Gen. Patrick Ellis, director of the C2 CFT.
Command posts that aren’t mobile are vulnerable to attack from electronic warfare and long-range drones.
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
Expeditionary forces jumping from island to island in the Indo-Pacific need a mobile way to command and control from vehicles, hotels, and homes.
ARLINGTON: “We needed to learn to speak infantry,” said Col. William Hartman, commander of the Army’s first offensive cyber operations brigade. That’s not easy. When one of Hartman’s teams joined a brigade of the 25th Infantry Division for an exercise this spring, the colonel recounted, the 25th’s commanding general told Hartman that his cyber operators […]