Army Aims for Network Modernization
January 4, 2018
By Robert K. Ackerman
The service's CIO and G-6 charts a digital change in direction.
The U.S. Army is creating a new definition of communications on the move as it prepares to shift from past information systems. Without weakening operations, the land service looks to incorporate a state-of-the-art class of capabilities by overhauling its relationship with technology providers.
These new requirements owe their origins to innovative technologies as well as to international near-peer pressure. Emerging network capabilities offer more flexible and effective ways of operating just as potential rivals improve their own information warfare measures in ways that constitute broad-based threats to the Army.
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