by Editor | Feb 7, 2024 | C4ISR, Digital Army, News
by Chris Thatcher Perhaps it was the communication plan, perhaps the sample size of the user evaluation, but when the Army rolled out the first cycle of a tactical smartphone-like computer system intended to network a platoon-sized formation, only some units...
by Editor | Jan 18, 2024 | C4ISR, Digital Army, News
by Chris Thatcher It wasn’t quite an unfair advantage, but it was certainly an edge. For the first time on Exercise Maple Resolve, the opposition force (OPFOR) came equipped with a tactical mesh network. And in a peer-on-peer scenario, where the speed of decision...
by Editor | Jan 23, 2023 | C4ISR, News
La version française de cet article est disponible après le texte anglais. by Chris Thatcher Six years ago, the Canadian Army acquired an Android-based Digitally Aided Close Air Support (DACAS) system that has fundamentally changed air-to-ground CAS...
by Editor | Apr 17, 2022 | C4ISR, Digital Army, News
La version française de cet article est disponible après le texte anglais. by Chris Thatcher In another era, before the smartphone, there were Communications and Information Systems (CIS). That begat C2 IS, recognition that Command and Control were what...
by Editor | Sep 28, 2021 | C4ISR, News, Procurement
by Chris Thatcher Of all the projects queuing up in the procurement pipeline, none could have a greater impact on the Army’s operational digital transformation efforts than Land C4ISR. Sometimes called the digital spine, the program of six individual projects...
by Editor | Aug 6, 2021 | C4ISR, News, Procurement
by Richard Bray Major Gaétan Noël is a soldier with many secrets. The procurement project he manages, Combined Joint Intelligence Modernization (CJIM), is creating the deployable facilities where top secret information will be received, discussed, analyzed,...
