The new battlespace will “hyperconnect” radios, 5G, troposcatter, and SATCOM
Enabling next-generation command and control with the same radio waveforms that were designed a decade-or-longer ago is a non-starter.
"It's all the communications that army needs, from the forward rifleman, who's walking around carrying his pack, who's really just talking on a radio right the way through to a big Joint Task Force headquarters with heaps of people in it, a field hospital with big logistics sort of node -- everything that's deployed," Darcy Rawlinson of Boeing Australia said.
The Army’s new Vice Chief of Staff Gen. James Mingus recently sat down with Breaking Defense to discuss a few of his priorities that include network changes to include transitioning from a ‘C2 Fix’ to ‘C2 Next.’
"In some cases, over at least the past decade, we've been developing that software from the US, modifying it locally for Australian Defence Force needs, and, actually, some other regional customers in Asia-Pacific," said Sonny Foster of Collins Aerospace.
Breaking Defense Europe will launch May 4 with Tim Martin and Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo as co-editors.