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AOC 2018: US Army explores integrated tactical network concept

23rd November 2018 - 12:00 GMT | by Scott Gourley in Fort Bliss, Texas

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One of the potential capabilities evaluated at the recent US Army Network Integration Evaluation (NIE) 18.2, held from 1-12 November at Fort Bliss, Texas, was the concept for an integrated tactical network (ITN).

‘The army has basically divided the network into “enterprise” and “tactical”,' explained LTC Brandon Baer, a product manager in the Army’s Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications – Tactical (PEO C3T).

‘At the “tactical” level we are doing the integrated tactical network concept. And right now this [NIE 18.2] experiment is the first phase, focusing on battalion and below, where we are trying to make the

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