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Army Seeks Near-Term Fixes, Years-Long Pivot To Modernize Networks

Wednesday, November 29th, 2017

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During a multiyear restructuring of the Army’s future battlefield communications network, the service will drop components that do not work, fix those that can be repaired or reconfigured and then “pivot” to a new system that can withstand the rigors of future battlefields.The service has adopted a three-pronged strategy to address concerns that several programs within the Army’s network modernization effort – most notably the multi-billion-dollar Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) – were eating up funding without producing operational capabilities.Acting Army…

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