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Expeditionary Signal Battalion structure organizational diagram Switches used by the ESB include the AN/TTC-56V3 Single Shelter Switch , the AN/TTC-59 Joint Network Node, and the OM- 87/T Command Post Node. As depicted in the organizational diagram (page 65) the ESB consists of a battalion headquarters and headquarters company, two identical Expeditionary Signal Companies, and a Joint/Area Signal Company. The ESB is designed to afford network planners flexibility in configuring resources to meet user requirements precisely. In keeping with modularity principles, ESB and ESB companies, platoons, and teams may be tailored and task organized so that only the precise package of capabilities needed to satisfy a given mission is deployed. In the same manner, companies, platoons, or teams may be added to an ESB to meet the demands of a particular mission. The mission provides network services to the following organiza- 66 Summer 2008 tions from Phase 0 through Phase IV of an operation: Joint Task Force headquarters, Coalition/Joint Force Land Component Command headquarters, ASCC/Army Operational Command Post, Army-level major subordinate command headquarters, functional brigades and their subordinate battalions, including battalions tasked to support division-level organizations, support brigades that have not been resourced with an organic Network Support Company, Army-level digital liaison teams, Ad hoc command posts, Forward operating bases and base/CP clusters, other United States armed services and Department of Defense agencies, and other governmental and non-governmental organizations. Mr. Johnson is a team member of the Strategic and Tactical Systems Team, G3 Plans, NETCOM 9th SC (A). The team oversees modernization of both strategic and tactical communications systems in support of theater signal operations. ACRONYM QUICKSCAN ASCC – Army Operational Command Post CP – Command Post CPN – Command Post Node DRSN – Defense Red Switch Network DSN – Defense Switched Network FOB – Forward Operating Base ESB – Expeditionary Signal Battalion FY – Fiscal Year GWOT – Global War on Terrorism HHC – Headquarters and Headquarters Company ITSB – Integrated Theater Signal Battalion JFLCC – Joint Force Land Component Command JNTC-S – Joint Network Transport Capability - Spiral JNN – Joint Network Node JTF – Joint Task Force JWICS – Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System LOS – Line-of-Sight MSC – Major Subordinate Command MSE – Mobile Subscriber Equipment NCR –National Capital Region NETCOM –Network Enterprise Technology Command NIPR – Non-secure Internet Protocol Router OIF – Operation Iraqi Freedom SIPR – Secure Internet Protocol Router SSS – Single Shelter Switch VTC – Video teleconference WIN-T – Warfighter Information Network - Tactical
WIN–T Personnel Requirements By MAJ Alprentice “Al” Smith and John Plotts In the current operational environment, the Signal Regiment enables the warfighting function command and control by installing, operating, and maintaining Army communications networks and information services. Command and control of Army and Joint forces will require a seamless communications network that is robust and capable of supporting full spectrum operations. The military occupational specialty structure and the training provided to our Soldiers is the critical factor in providing this indispensible capability. Many of the readers of this article will remember Mobile Subscriber Equipment. It was a communications system that provided many years of good service, but Operation Iraqi Freedom proved that our combat forces needed much more capability not the least of which is command and control onthe-move or C2OTM. In an unprecedented acquisition, the Army purchased what we then called JNN – Joint Network Node – which provided a satellite based at-thequick-halt capability and moved the Army closer to C2OTM. In an amazing display of agility, the Army was able to design, purchase, and field our first JNN in about six months. In fact, we fielded the equipment so fast that we received Headquarters Department of the Army approval for a new MOS (25N) to install, operate, and maintain this equipment after it was fielded. New Equipment Training picked up the slack initially and now we have a steady stream of 25N Soldiers generated by our Advanced Individual Training courses at Fort Gordon. As many of you know, this Command and control of Army and Joint forces will require a seamless communications network that is robust and capable of supporting full spectrum operations. The military occupational specialty structure and the training provided to our Soldiers is the critical factor in providing this indispensible capability. transition created an imbalance in the inventory of Soldiers in certain MOSs that is only now starting to rebalance. Today, JNN is part of the WIN- T program called WIN-T Increment 1. The WIN-T program goes well beyond JNN and brings many more capabilities to the force. Although JNN was just the first glimpse of what WIN-T would look like, we designed the 25N not only for JNN, but so that this MOS could evolve along with the evolution of the WIN- T program. WIN-T is a high-speed and high capacity backbone communications network. It will be focused on moving information in a manner that supports commanders, staffs, functional units, and capabilitiesbased formations – all mobile, agile, lethal, sustainable, and deployable. C2OTM will be fully realized in later increments of WIN-T. If this sounds like some tremendous capability, it is, but WIN-T will not meet the needs of the commander without well-trained Soldiers and leaders of the Signal Regiment. As the Signal Regiment continues to develop the hardware and equipment required to employ the various increments of the WIN-T program, the Regiment, through the Office Chief of Signal, is also determining the personnel requirements. These requirements are being analyzed in terms of the five Regimental core competencies that were published in an earlier article, Summer 2007 edition of the Army Communicator, and our initial focus is on the three competencies that comprise the critical components of network operations. Signal Soldiers must be able to execute Enterprise Systems Management, or said another way, to install, operate, and maintain WIN-T systems. Our people also need to be competent in Information Dissemination Management and Content Staging. This competency goes to the heart of how we technically enable having the right information available at the right time and at the right place. And finally, our Soldiers must be able to exercise the core competency of Information Assurance and Computer Network Defense or in layman’s terms, protect our networks. As you can imagine, there is a definitive process we must use to identify personnel requirements for emerging technologies. OCOS is working closely with the materiel developers, trainers, and Program Managers in the review of developmental task analysis reports and draft training materials for WIN-T configuration items to determine skill sets and knowledge requirements. This analysis is then crosswalked to existing officer areas of concentrations and warrant and enlisted MOSs to develop the personnel structure. Since many of Army Communicator 67
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