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Army Will Rent Base Networks, But Never Battlefield

The Army will effectively rent back-office IT "as a service" from contractors, allowing it to focus on modernizing the front-line network.

Army Takes Its Radio Network Commercial

It's all part of a wider effort to rebuild the Army's command, control, and communications (C3) networks for war against a high-tech great power.

Can’t Stop The Signal: Army Strips Down Network To Survive Major War

Unlike the Taliban, Russia and China can shoot down our drones, jam our transmissions, and hack our computers. So to prepare to fight them, we need a very different communications network — one the US Army is now studying how to build.

Army Patches Its Network For Near Term

The long-term solution may take "big, leap-ahead technology," said Maj. Gen. Pete Gallagher, head of the Cross Functional Team leading the network overhaul. But short-term solutions can be as simple as replacing bulky metal antennas with inflatable ones or loading new software on an off-the-shelf Android phone.

Army Needs 2 Years To Reboot Network, Seeks COTS Stopgaps

WASHINGTON: The Army needs at least two years to figure out a new, war-ready communications network to replace its current, fragile systems, the acting secretary said this week. There’s no a quick fix: The service is effectively starting over on what it’s long described as its No. 1 priority for modernization. A recently created task […]

Army Pledges To Fix Networks; Skeptics Abound

AUSA: Faced with a grave threat from Russian advances in electronic warfare over the last five years, the US Army really will develop a useful, effective and adaptable tactical network after a decade of missteps and failures. Really. [Click here to download our free ebook on the Army’s network travails] “The urgency of now is […]

The Army Overhauls Its Networks For Future War (eBook)

Breaking Defense Coverage of Developing a Multi-Domain Strategy For Digital Warfare.

Army Plans To Halt WIN-T Buy; Shuffle Network $$

WASHINGTON: After almost a decade of reporting on the Army’s crucial networks, I’d thought they’d started to get things right. Boy, was I wrong. At a hearing this afternoon of the House Armed Services air and land subcommittee, the Army left lawmakers shaking their heads when they announced they plan to shut down the controversial […]

Army Must Sell Network Strategy To Congress: Speer

ARLINGTON: The Army’s no-holds-barred study of its network shortfalls should produce a comprehensive strategy to solve them — a strategy that can withstand the scrutiny of a skeptical Congress. That’s the goal Acting Army Secretary Robert Speer laid out for me and a fellow reporter after an Association of the US Army event this week. […]

Army Chief Milley Turns To Industry For Network Overhaul

ARLINGTON: Want to sell information technology to the US Army? Then you need to write this down: [email protected]. That’s the email of the general seeking industry’s input — historically something of a struggle for the service — as the Army reviews and overhauls its networks. The Army’s long-term goal: a single unified network connecting everything from the […]

Army Reviews ALL Networks — Way Beyond WIN-T: Milley & Speer

CAPITOL HILL: The Army is conducting a wide-ranging review of “a whole series of vulnerabilities” in its communications systems that extends far beyond the troubled WIN-T program, the Chief of Staff and acting secretary told reporters today. The review will make recommendations on streamlining IT acquisition in general, not just on specific technologies, Gen. Mark […]

DoD Acquisition Starting To Turn Corner? F-35 Costs Down 2%

  UPDATED: JSF JPO Details Each Variant Costs; Provides Other Details PENTAGON: The simple lead for this story would be: F-35 costs dropped almost 2 percent over the last year. But the real lead should be: after decades of botched programs, bloated budgets, technical screwups and long delays we may be seeing what Winston Churchill might […]

‘Goodness’ From Falling Space Budget; Outsource WGS C2 Next Year?

CAPITOL HILL:  The space community harbors many incredibly bright people, including a very few who are willing to say what they really think in public. A full house at the Capitol Hill Club was treated last week to a bravura performance of straight talk by Dave Madden, executive director of the Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center. […]

Shyu On GCV, Upgrades, Sequestration; US ‘Overmatch’ At Stake

AUSA: The Honorable Shyu, as everyone in the military calls the head of Army acquisition, is often bright, humorous and insightful. Today, she got passionate in public, clearly frustrated at the painful limits that the automatic budget cuts known as sequestration have forced her to adopt. American military power has traditionally rested on technological overmatch. We […]