Posted on Jun 3, 2021
Army wants $537 million boost for tactical network, driven by radio needs
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The U.S. Army tactical network acquisition team requested a substantial $537 million increase for fiscal 2022 in an overall budget request with sizable cuts to other service programs.
The $2.3 billion budget for the Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications-Tactical signals the Army’s commitment to modernizing its force as it prepares for Joint All-Domain Command and Control, which is how the Pentagon envisions the battlefield of 2030 and beyond, with data passing quickly and uninterrupted to soldiers on the ground and in planes in the air. The added money, part of the Army’s proposed $2.6 billion for network modernization, would accommodate the service’s plan to field radios and other advanced communications upgrades to soldiers.
The $2.3 billion budget for the Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications-Tactical signals the Army’s commitment to modernizing its force as it prepares for Joint All-Domain Command and Control, which is how the Pentagon envisions the battlefield of 2030 and beyond, with data passing quickly and uninterrupted to soldiers on the ground and in planes in the air. The added money, part of the Army’s proposed $2.6 billion for network modernization, would accommodate the service’s plan to field radios and other advanced communications upgrades to soldiers.
Army wants $537 million boost for tactical network, driven by radio needs
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel As part of its massive modernization effort, the PEO C3T and the Network Cross-Functional Team are delivering new collections of network tools, known as capability sets, every two years. The Army is currently fielding Capability Set ‘21, and the $537 million increase would support the “continued procurement of tactical radios and other commercial communications gear to support the Capability Set 21 fielding,” said Paul Mehney, director of communications at PEO C3T, the N-CFT acquisition arm.
The bulk of the network modernization increase would be $228 million for the handheld, manpack and small form fit (HMS) radio program. That massive procurement program, totaling a $775 million total budget request, fields four categories of radios to the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Special Operations Command. With that money, the Army would purchase 5,440 leader radios in FY22 — up from 4,229 the year before — to support the continued fielding of Capability Set ‘21, Mehney said. The HMS program will include single-channel data radios that work with augmented reality through the Integrated Visual Augmentation System program. That radio programs has a baseline of about 104,000 radios, budget documents showed.
The bulk of the network modernization increase would be $228 million for the handheld, manpack and small form fit (HMS) radio program. That massive procurement program, totaling a $775 million total budget request, fields four categories of radios to the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Special Operations Command. With that money, the Army would purchase 5,440 leader radios in FY22 — up from 4,229 the year before — to support the continued fielding of Capability Set ‘21, Mehney said. The HMS program will include single-channel data radios that work with augmented reality through the Integrated Visual Augmentation System program. That radio programs has a baseline of about 104,000 radios, budget documents showed.
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LTC Stephen C.
SGT (Join to see), the Program Executive Officer for C3T from NOV09 to SEP13 was good friend, MG(ret) Lee Price. I’ve known her since 1976. She was the first woman to serve as an Army PEO of any type.
She wrote a book about her time in the service called, No Greater Honor. It’s an interesting read.
Here’s a photo of the book with her dog tag challenge coin displayed on the book.
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel CSM Charles Hayden SGT Mark Anderson
She wrote a book about her time in the service called, No Greater Honor. It’s an interesting read.
Here’s a photo of the book with her dog tag challenge coin displayed on the book.
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel CSM Charles Hayden SGT Mark Anderson
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SGT (Join to see)
LTC Stephen C. - Thank you for taking the time to share this information... I really appreciate it. On RP I continue to learn things I never heard of before... that makes it intersting to me.
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I want to say that KISS is still the priority. The more tech that person carries on that field and trains to depend on it, the more that goes wrong when comms are down, jammed or the equipment fails. What happens when you reach a complexity that involves every one in the squad, the squad leader manages the squad comms, then manages the platoon connection. That is two channels, grow that upward and your LT's are managing many channels..
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