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Army

Soldiers Testing Army’s Two Options For New Vehicle Command System At NIE

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, November 1st, 2018

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Soldiers Testing Army’s Two Options For New Vehicle Command System At NIE

Android Tactical Assault Kit. Photo: Matthew Beinart.

FT BLISS, Texas--Army officials gathering at this week’s tactical network exercise here will evaluate the two possible options for the service’s future vehicle-mounted mission command system, with the goal of informing critical design choices ahead of a fiscal year 2019 production decision.Soldiers participating at the Network Integration Evaluation will run through live and virtual operations for two options being considered for the Mounted Computing Environment (MCE) capability: the government-developed Android Tactical Assault Kit (ATAK) and the Mounted Mission Command (MMC)…

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