Army seeks hefty boost in network funding in Pentagon procurement proposal
The "tactical network communications” portfolio saw a jump of over $488 million compared to last year.
The "tactical network communications” portfolio saw a jump of over $488 million compared to last year.
In the years since the first version of the plan, "a confluence of emerging technologies and events has transformed the world into a multidomain, persistently contested information environment that demands a far more data-centric approach to harness the power of the Army Network to fight and win," the Army said.
A spokesperson for PEO C3N told Breaking Defense that Leidos is the main award winner of the contract, but there are a handful of subcontractors involved as well.
Last year, PEO C3T and PEO IEW&S absorbed several programs from the PEO Enterprise Information Systems (EIS), in hopes of better orienting the land forces for the fights of the future.
The name change comes nearly a year after the office underwent a revamp in which it absorbed several organizations from the Program Executive Office of Enterprise Information Systems.
Currently, the Army has nine various organizational networks and is on its way to creating one cohesive network.
The way the historic PEO organizations were initially set up was “for a reason,” but now the Army is modernizing, and the shift is needed to support its unified network, Young Bang said.
“You have to be able to operate with challenges to comms at times, whether it's jamming, lack of available fiber, geography impacting your line of sight, or host-nation spectrum restrictions.”
"If there's one thing DoD and industry have done, it's try a whole bunch of different tools over the last 10 to 12 years. What we have to do now is string them all together to show which ones work best for the capabilities the Army needs today and divest the ones that they don't need," Peraton VP Jennifer Napper said.
"I will offer you there will be no sanctuary in the next fight. We have to have a resilient network," Lt. Gen. John Morrison said.