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Army Looking To Industry, Short-Term Solutions For New Approach To Fixing Tactical Network

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, March 21st, 2018

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Army officials are moving ahead with a halt, fix, pivot approach to address vulnerability and technical concerns with its tactical network, looking for industry input on long-term solutions to improve resiliency and embracing short-term programs for the most pressing communication needs.Following a period of mission analysis and user feedback from operational units, leadership from the Army’s Program Executive Office - Command Control, Communications-Tactical (PEO C3T) are ready to move on from the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) program, which did not…

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