Army building command post of the future
By: Adam Stone, August 17, 2016
The Army’s command post is an unwieldy nest, strung with hundreds of feet of cable, stacked with towers of transit cases and populated by a jumble of computer servers and terminals. It takes an entire platoon of soldiers a day to build one.
As the service envisions a future in which quick-response units perform in expeditionary mode, these hulking nerve centers no longer seem appropriate.
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“It has gotten very large, very difficult to move,” said Mike McCarthy, director of the LandWarNet Division of the Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Army Capabilities and Integration Center (ARCIC). “They are going to have to be able to move quickly in order to survive. They have to be less vulnerable, less detectable.”
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