Military Network Technologies in 2023
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The US Army is interested in the development of new network technologies to enhance network capacity, resiliency and convergence solutions. The solutions selected will participate in a no-cost technology demonstration which could lead to a prototype supporting experimentation.
According to the call for white papers, there are several technology areas it wants to insert into the 2023 tactical network, including:
- Managed multi-orbit satellite Communications services for forces — managed services to mitigate bandwidth challenges where existing services are lacking.
- C4ISR/electronic warfare modular open suite of standards (CMOSS) compliant satellite communications modem, next generation blue force tracking and radio waveforms — open source standards to converge hardware on a common platform.
- Segregation of data by identity access and management enabling multi-level security with mission partners — an unclassified software solution in the prototype phase that can be used in the Mission Partner Environment, a network used by the military and coalition partners, that will include a reliable, protected and configurable network.
- Hardened network transport and reduced electronic signature for command posts.
- Optimizing compute, storage and applications on a distributed computing architecture to automate data tagging, synchronization, containerize services and efficiency of compute resources — the Army is looking for a common data fabric to reduce stovepipes, enable automation and improve data context for decision-makers, according to c4isrnet.com.
