2012 Annual Report to the Stakeholders - PEO C3T - U.S. Army

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ConneCting tomorrow’s warriors common opeRAting enviRonment [coe] It’s taken for granted in today’s marketplace that smartphones, computers and tablets are compatible. On the battlefield, while Soldiers are equipped with the most technologically advanced equipment available, the systems are not always interoperable. Soldiers often have to log on and off of each system, files are not easily shared, and systems require different security level clearances, making logistics difficult and time consuming. This inability for systems to communicate comes from 10 years of war where capabilities were brought to the battlefield to direct response to Soldiers’ needs, but not necessarily developed to be compatible. Now, the Army is redesigning that approach so compatibility is considered up front. Instead of encouraging developers to begin with a blank slate by designing a system or capability from beginning to end, the Army is advancing parameters for a more agile Common Operating Environment (COE) where government and industry partners can contribute applications to an existing standard framework. This new strategy embraces a commercially- based set of standards that enable secure and interoperable applications to be rapidly developed and executed across six Computing Environments, or CEs. PEO C3T is leading development of the Command Post Computing Environment and Mounted Computing Environment. Command Post Computing Environment (CP CE) is a common, scalable, integrated Mission Command architecture infrastructure including hardware, services and applications. The CP CE will enable the Army to develop and field applications or “apps” through a webbased marketplace for use by commanders. The initial CP CE investment will converge Operations and Intelligence (OPS/Intel) capabilities onto a single platform. Mounted Computing Environment (MCE) will be the standard for systems set inside tactical vehicles. Once established, Mounted CE will provide operating systems, common applications, software development kits (SDK) and standards to implement mission command. SAtcomms booSt the foRce With U.S. forces facing changing missions and an evolving global footprint, Project Manager Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (PM WIN-T) continues defining and delivering affordable, resilient satellite communications (SATCOM) to meet the ever-increasing demands of the force. Among its many contributions this fiscal year, PM WIN-T has innovatively repurposed existing satellite terminals, upgraded and tested terminals to take advantage of less expensive military satellites and provided capability to help monitor military satellites. SIPR/NIPR Access Point (SNAP) Tactical, Transportable, Tropo (3T) SNAP terminals are donning a new cloak, transforming from satellite terminals to tropospheric scatter terminals. Instead of shooting into a satellite for beyond-line-ofsight communications, the SNAP Tactical, Transportable, Tropo (3T) shoots a microwave shot up at the tropopause — a thin buffer zone located just above the lowest layer of the earth’s atmosphere (the troposphere). The microwave shot bounces off the tropopause where it is collected on the ground by a second SNAP 3T. This method allows for secure, high-speed communications, up and over terrestrial obstructions. PdM SATCOM has already fielded 28 SNAP 3Ts in several countries to augment the beyond-line-of-sight communications architecture without additional satellite resources. SNAP 3Ts are expected to decrease the Army’s reliance on military and commercial satellites, which can be expensive and have higher latency, and the capability has the potential for a wide variety of uses in multiple regions. The terminals also provide significant cost avoidance at very low risk by utilizing and repurposing current Army products that have already been proven successful. 18 // Program ExEcutivE officE command control communications-tactical
Following the Department of Defense’s decision to disband the Joint Program Executive Office for the Joint Tactical Radio System (JPEO JTRS) and transition oversight of radio hardware to the services, several programs have been transferred to PEO C3T. According to an Aug. 11, 2012, memo signed by heidi Shyu, Army Acquisition Executive, these programs will now be managed by PEO C3T: handheld, Manpack, Small Form Fit (hMS), effective Aug. 13; Airborne Maritime/Fixed Station (AMF), effective Sept. 30; and Mid-Tier Networking Vehicular Radio (MNVR), effective Sept. 30. MNVR is the replacement for the JTRS Ground Mobile Radio. This realignment comes at a transition point in the evolution of the JTRS programs, and as the Army – through Capability Set Management and the Network Integration Evaluations (NIEs) – has taken steps away from developing its own 2012 annual report to the stakeholders ARmy ReAlignS RAdio pRogRAmS to peo c3t network systems, in favor of identifying and procuring industry solutions to incrementally modernize the force. Through the NIEs and Agile Process for acquisition, the Army will seek to evaluate and purchase radio hardware at a quicker pace and lower cost than in the past. The non-proprietary JTRS software waveforms will be managed by the new Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology Joint Tactical Networking Center (JTNC), ensuring interoperability across the services and allowing the continued development of open standards that industry can compete to build the hardware/radios that work on that network. This change also brings the Army’s entire portfolio of lower tactical internet communications systems under the same program management and into the same PEO that includes the Project Manager for Warfighter Information Network- Tactical (PM WIN-T), the Army’s satellite communications backbone for the upper tactical internet. “This direct link between those who develop, field and support WIN-T and those who do the same for tactical radios will produce immediate operational benefits as the Army starts to field Capability Set 13 to brigade combat teams this fall,” said Maj. Gen. N. Lee S. Price, program executive officer for PEO C3T. As part of the JTRS transition, PEO C3T stood up a new Project Manager for Tactical Radios, to which Product Manager (PdM) hMS is assigned, along with PdM Network Systems, which manages current force and commercial, off-theshelf radios for PEO C3T. The MNVR and AMF programs will continue to be led by their respective project managers until their next assignment, at which time those programs will also become part of PM Tactical Radios. I use [Rifleman Radio] for overall command and control because it builds a network that allows me to talk to my subordinate elements. It’s the first time I’ve actually had radios down at the squad level. Capt. Ryan McNally, a company commander wtih 2/1 Brigade 1st Armed Division Program ExEcutivE officE command control communications-tactical // 19
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