Wireless battlefield tactical networking supporting C2OTM and C4I for the army warrior

The Army´s Enterprise Strategy focuses on identifying, supplying, and implementing sophisticated information and other C4I technologies needed to support the army warfighter. This new land combat doctrine emphasizes mobility, increased operational tempo, and C2OTM (command and control on the move); requiring networks to dynamically respond to continuously changing node topology to digitize the battlefield. Communication support must be provided for “seamless” computer-to-computer data exchange across multiple command layers. Based upon previously published work in the area of tactical networks, Unisys Communication Systems is developing a wireless battlefield tactical networking capability that will provide a high capacity, robust, LPE, and A/J tactical communications network specifically addressing the computer-to-computer data exchange problem in the “on-the-move” environment. This paper reports on this ongoing effort, building upon move than six years of previous work-both customer funded and IR&D