by Editor | Dec 24, 2024 | Army Reserve, Digital Army, News
by Chris Thatcher If the Army had callsigns for projects and initiatives, instead of the ubiquitous acronyms, the effort to develop a cloud-based tactical network might have been dubbed Roadrunner. In less than 12 months, Cloud TAK has gone from an idea to a...
by Editor | Sep 18, 2024 | C4ISR, Digital Army, News
by Chris Thatcher The Army’s command-and-control (C2) footprint in Afghanistan was big and cumbersome, housed in large tents amid a sea of masts and emitting an electromagnetic signature for all to see. In a future conflict, it will need to be light and nimble,...
by Editor | Aug 21, 2024 | C4ISR, Digital Army, News
In DDACSI, the Army is creating the nexus for a digital force and a continuous and interoperable capability development cycle. By Chris Thatcher Over the past 18 months on domestic operations and exercises, the Army has experimented with an interconnected but...
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 | Nov 6, 2023 | Army Reserves, Combat Capability, Digital Army, Leadership, News, Operations
by Chris Thatcher “The operational art is about being unpredictable,” Lieutenant-General Joe Paul noted as he closed a lengthy discussion about Operation Reassurance and the Canadian-led multinational enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) Battle Group in Latvia....
