The Army has set a spring 2018 deadline for fielding all updates to its Warfighter Information Network-Tactical Increment 1 (WIN-T1) system as its rolls out a series of modernization efforts for its command post operations.
Gary Martin, program executive officer for the Army’s Command, Control Communication-Tactical Office, offered several updates to network projects aimed at establishing a simpler architecture for operation environments.
“Today it’s a separate training for everyone of these mission command applications, so in the new command motion computing environment the look and feel will be identical,” Martin said at an Association of the United States Army conference Monday.
The enhanced communications system WIN-T1 has received updates over the last two years, but the Army aims to have all components upgraded by March 2018.
Army modernization efforts continue to be focused around establishing baseline mission command capabilities, with a goal in mind to reach this level by the end of 2022 moved back from 2026 or 2027, according to Martin.
The Army is also considering enhancements to the modems of its WIN-T capabilities to incorporate anti-jamming capabilities by utilizing all waveforms with new software updates by 2020
For its command posts, the Army is aiming to field common operating environments by 2019 as it continues to simplify requirements for incorporating modernized capabilities. Command posts are expected to migrate their applications onto a common infrastructure, with the goal of eliminating the Army’s four legacy mission capabilities.
“We are providing a common infrastructure that they’re going to reside on so they’re all going to use the same mapping, security, log-in, authentication. All that will be common to all of them, said Martin.”
The Army has also worked with the National Security Agency to start deploying secure commercial WiFi capabilities to its command posts meant to eliminate complexities and integrate a more intuitive graphical system that can be applied to current legacy systems.
“Certainly, there’s a lot more work to be done in terms of best practices that industry has. We’re certainly going to leverage the cross-functional teams to get after focusing what our experimentation and prototyping ought to get after,” said Martin.