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Army Futures Command
The United States Army Futures Command (AFC) is a United States Army command, designed as a public-private initiative, that runs modernization projects for the Army. It is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and was first commanded by General John M ...
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The US Army's Integrated Tactical Network (ITN) "is not a new or separate network but rather a concept"—PEO C3T.
[PEO C3]
(2018) Integrated Tactical Network
"is not a new or separate network but rather a concept" Avoid overspecifying the requirements for Integrated Tactical Network Information Systems Initial Capabilities Document. Instead, meet operational needs, such as interoperability with other networks, and release ITN capabilities incrementally.
*Up through 2028, every two years the Army will insert new capability sets for ITN (Capability sets
'21,
'23,
'25, etc.). and take feedback from Soldier-led experiment & evaluation. However, the Army's commitment to a 'campaign of learning' showed more paths:
**
Firestorm
A firestorm is a conflagration which attains such intensity that it creates and sustains its own wind system. It is most commonly a natural phenomenon, created during some of the largest bushfires and wildfires. Although the term has been used ...
was made possible by a
mesh network
A mesh network is a local area network topology in which the infrastructure nodes (i.e. bridges, switches, and other infrastructure devices) connect directly, dynamically and non-hierarchically to as many other nodes as possible and cooperate wit ...
—improvising an MEO, and then a GEO satellite link between JBLM to YPG. There are plans to have a Project Convergence 2021. The Army fielded a
data fabric
The Internet of Military Things (IoMT) is a class of Internet of things for combat operations and warfare. It is a complex network of interconnected entities, or "things", in the military domain that continually communicate with each other to coord ...
at Project Convergence 2020;
[ this will eventually be part of JADC2.
**Five Rapid Innovation Fund (RIF) awards were granted to five vendors via the Network CFT and PEO C3T's request for white papers. That request, for a roll-on/roll-off kit that integrates all functions of mission command on the Army Network, was posted at the '' National Spectrum Consortium'' and FedBizOpps, and yielded awards within eight months.][Kathryn Bailey, PEO C3T Public Affair]
(17 October 2018) New players bring novel approaches to the Army's network modernization goals
/ref>[ Sydney J. Freedberg Jr]
Army Applications Lab(23 October 2018) Army Futures Command Wants YOU (To Innovate)
*—Adam Jay Harrison's list for types of Funding Authority
**The Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO)'s Emerging Technologies Office structured a competition to find superior AI/Machine Learning algorithms for electronic warfare, from a field of 150 contestants, over a three-month period.[Nancy Jones-Bonbrest, Army Rapid Capabilities Offic]
(8 November 2018) Cutting through the noise: Army, industry work together to speed up signal detection
/ref>[Sydney J. FREEDBERG JR]
(19 November 2018) Can Army Afford The Electronic Warfare Force It Wants?
/ref>[Anthony Small ]
*Capability Set '21 fields ITN to selected infantry brigades to prepare for IVAS Integrated vision goggles. Expeditionary signal brigades get enhanced satellite communications.
**1/82nd Airborne, 173rd Airborne, 3/25th ID, and 3/82nd Airborne infantry brigades will all have fielded the Integrated Tactical Network Capability Set '21 by year-end 2021.[Sydney J. Freedberg Jr]
(20 May 2021) Paratroopers Pioneer New Army Network, Tactics
HMS Manpack and Leader radios, ITN CS '21, can use variable height antenna drones, MUOS constellation: for tactical satellite communications â
Andrew Eversden (24 Sep 2021) Army Drops Nearly $350M For New Radios After Two Years of Testing
/ref>[ 2nd Cavalry Regiment is getting Capability Set '21 on Strykers,][Kathryn Bailey, PEO C3T Public Affairs (25 January 202]
Army's integrated network rolls on with Stryker vehicles
/ref>
*Integrated Tactical Network (ITN) Capability Set '23 is prototyping JADC2 communications and the data fabric, to LEO (Low earth orbit) and to MEO (Medium earth orbit) satellites, as continued in Project Convergence 2021 in Yuma Proving Ground. Capability Set '23 has passed its Critical design review (CDR).[Colin Demares]
(28 Apr 2022) US Army wraps review of 'future battlespace' network tools
/ref>
*Integrated Tactical Network (ITN) Capability Set '25 will implement JADC2, according to the acting head of the Network CFT.
*Integrated Tactical Network (ITN) Capability Set '27 design goals are being laid out.[
*G-6 John Morrison is seeking to unify the battlefield networks of ITN, and IEN (Enterprise Network), as of September 2021.][Andrew Eversde]
(23 Sep 2021) Top Army General: Network Modernization 'Never Going To Stop'
/ref>[CIO and G-]
(8 Oct 2021) The Army Unified Network Plan: ENABLING MULTI-DOMAIN OPERATIONS
/ref>
**An Army leader dashboard from PEO Enterprise Information Systems is underway.[Ellen Summey, PEO EI]
(1 July 2019) Army Leader Dashboard, creating insight-driven decisions
/ref>[Lizette Chapma]
(13 December 2019) Palantir Wins New Pentagon Deal With $111 Million From the Army
HR, supply chain, et al. The dashboard is renamed ''Vantage''.[Billy Mitchel]
(DEC 26, 2019) Inside Palantir's support of the Army's massive data problem
/ref> The dashboard has streamlined and connected data updates for deployments.[Capt. Matthew Visse]
(30 Jul 2022) Reinventing Modern Deployment: Soldiers leverage Army Vantage to make data-driven decisions
Cloud-service-provider agnostic abstraction layer
In computing, an abstraction layer or abstraction level is a way of hiding the working details of a subsystem. Examples of software models that use layers of abstraction include the OSI model for network protocols, OpenGL, and other graphics libra ...
s are in use, which allows merging the staff work in G-3/5/7 for cyber/EW (electronic warfare), mission command, and space. The "seamless, real-time flow of data" across multiple domains (land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace) is an objective for G-6, as well as the sensor-to-shooter work at Futures command.[.S. Army Public Affair]
U(3 June 2020) Two Army Installations selected for 5G testing and experimentation
/ref>
**The Multi-domain task forces ( MDTFs) will be used to expose any capability gaps in the Unified network plan.[Andrew Eversde]
(15 Dec 2021) Tactical cloud coming to Army's Multi-Domain Task Forces in 2022
/ref>[Jaspreet Gil]
(2 Nov 2022) DISA moves forward with $1.5B network transport contract after protest
"The contract was awarded in August, but the government froze work until a protest by Verizon was resolved, a Defense Department official told Breaking Defense".
Notes and References
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Military radio systems of the United States