Updated network gear allows US soldiers to be more dispersed with lower digital footprints
Enabled by the Army's C2 Fix architecture, 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division was difficult to find in the electromagnetic spectrum in a recent combat training center rotation.
By
Mark Pomerleau
February 14, 2025
U.S. Soldiers assigned to 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, fly the Skydio X2D Drone during exercise Combined Resolve (CbR) 25-1 at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center, Hohenfels Training Area, Hohenfels, Germany, Jan. 31, 2025. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Collin Mackall)
This is part two of a three-part series examining the conclusion of the Army’s transforming-in-contact 1.0 initiative and looking forward to the next iteration. Part one can be found here.
Modernized network capabilities tested during a recent exercise in Europe allowed U.S. military forces to operate more dispersed with lower electronic footprints — making them hard for the enemy to discover.
That unit, 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, was the last of three experimental brigades testing the first iteration of a concept dubbed transforming-in-contact, a top priority for the Army that aims to change the way the service buys, trains and employs equipment.
The concept aims to use deployments and troop rotations to test new equipment — mainly commercial off-the-shelf gear — that could allow units to be more responsive on a dynamic battlefield. It’s focused initially on unmanned aerial systems, counter-UAS and electronic warfare.
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