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!e Army is committed to building and sustaining a force equipped - with the modern gear, weapons and systems necessary to perform"scal stewardship. full-spec trum operations, while maintaining full transparency and #ort has led to the devel- !roughout 2010, the Army Modernization e !e Army continues opment and "elding of the best equipment available. to modernize its varied arsenal through procurement of new equipment and upgrades to the existing inventory.

Leaders at all levels, researchers and developers have worked closely with Soldiers to update the Army’s equipping strategy—a strategy based not only on input from the "eld, but lessons learned and changes to the strategic and "scal landscapes. - As we transition to the new year, leaders are determined to provide Sol diers with the materiel they need to be successful in the current operating environments, and devoted to transforming the Army to meet the demands of the future.

!is month’s issue of Soldiers magazine provides a look at some of the modernization e#orts from throughout 2010, and a glimpse at what is on the horizon. Sincerely,

MaryAnn B. Cummings

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OLDIERS comprise the centerpiece of our formations. !e Army modernizes for its Soldiers so that they have the right equipment and capabilities for the mission. S!e objective of Army modernization is to develop and "eld a versatile and a#ordable mix of the best equipment available to allow Soldiers and units to succeed in both today and tomorrow’s full-spec- trum operations. As Soldiers in the "eld request new capabilities, the Army will en- sure that the systems provided are versatile, tailorable and networked, so that they will remain dominant and relevant on future battle"elds. !e following articles highlight a cross-section of the Army’s ongo- ing e#orts in achieving its modernization goals. !

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18 www.army.mil/soldiers beyond normal range of connectivity, data tra$c to and from each other. air tier, using an advancement of the network will automatically adapt, WIN-T Increment 2 completed the HNR radio, known as the Joint allowing for continuous communica- its limited-user test, which led to a Command Control Communica- tions between Soldiers. successful Milestone C decision in tions and Computers Intelligence, From division down to bat- early February 2010, and award of the Surveillance and Reconnaissance talion, Increment 2 will provide an low-rate initial production contract. Radio, or JC4ISR, mounted on OTM line-of-sight radio known as With the initial production funding unmanned aircraft. "e war!ghter the Highband Networking Radio. released, the Program Manager WIN- will possess a three-tiered com- "is new radio will greatly increase T has started equipment production munication network providing line-of-sight capacity and ease of use. for its initial operational test in the connectivity for the full spectrum of With the help of smart multi-beam !rst quarter of !scal year 2012. "e operations. ! antenna technology, the HNR can !rst unit equipped is expected by the automatically detect all other HNR second quarter of !scal year 2012. radios within range and allow users to WIN-T Increment 3, which is pass video, voice or Internet Protocol still in development, will provide the —Amy Walker/PEO Command Con- trol Communications-Tactical

JTRS: "e Soldier’s networking backbone

HE Joint Tactical Radio Sys- network security as threats evolve, by traditional communication limita- tem, or JTRS, is transitioning while providing position location tions. With JTRS, the battle!eld is from research and develop- information to the Soldier as real-time truly networked and every Soldier is Tment, to production and delivery to situational awareness is passed to the connected in a safe, secure communica- Soldiers in the !eld. Providing cyber- company level and below. Soldiers are tions nerve system where they need it hardened Internet Protocol networking safer, smarter and always in touch. most: at the tactical edge. ! on %uid, rough terrain battle!elds, JTRS radios seamlessly interconnect A day-in-the life with JTRS air, ground, maritime and space plat- En-route to a remote security —Al Clayton and Mike Daily/Joint PEO forms and networks in a multi-band, base, your convoy is sidetracked with JTRS multi-mode capability to the individual a vehicle maintenance problem: pulled

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LL Soldiers train on the "e EST 2000 provides safe and importance and e$ectiveness of this Engagement Skills Trainer cost-e$ective training. And while the training program and the EST 2000 2000 before they ever !re a Army has avoided millions of dollars in became a critical part of the Army’s Alive round. "e life-sized, life-like costs through its use of the EST 2000, marksmanship training strategy, such simulator provides marksmanship the true value of virtual marksmanship that Soldiers spend at least eight training to Soldiers through hun- is that it allows a Soldier to conduct hours training on this virtual device dreds of interactive vignettes, ranging training leading to weapon pro!ciency, before they undergo live gunnery from military police procedures to combat e$ectiveness and ultimately, training. maritime force protection scenarios survivability on the modern battle!eld. Today, more than 750 EST and full-on combat operations. A high percentage of Soldiers who train 2000s are training Soldiers across "e EST 2000, a virtual marks- using a virtual marksmanship trainer the globe, including those in combat manship trainer, provides a critical will qualify the !rst time they go to a zones. "e EST 2000 also trains capability for leaders to train Sol- live-!re range. law enforcement o%cials and allied diers. "e training device provides In 2001, Program Executive O%ce- armies. ! Soldiers the opportunity to learn Simulation, Training and Instrumenta- what’s right, make mistakes and learn tion started providing marksmanship from their mistakes. Leaders can also training via the EST 2000 and the measure performance, and then work program quickly gained momentum. —PEO for Simulation, Training & on areas that need focus. "en in 2006, the Army recognized the Instrumentation

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HE Army is continuing bilities manager, that they had learned !red the !rst Hell!re II UAS Variant production of the Gray Eagle how to e$ectively employ the system. from a Soldier-operated ER/MP air- Extended Range/Multi-Purpose "e test provided the Army with vital craft. In total, they would !re six mis- TUnmanned Aircraft System with the information about the system, the siles, some where they laser-designated !rst unit to be equipped in !scal year training required to !eld it, and how to the target themselves, and two where 2011. best use its capabilities in combat. the target was designated by an Apache In support of a secretary of defense "e test also debuted the opera- helicopter #ying in the vicinity. "ey directive to surge forces to theater, the tor’s use of beyond line-of-sight via also provided laser-designation for an UAS Project O%ce developed a Quick SATCOM control of both the aircraft Apache to !re two Hell!re missiles. Reaction Capability to get Gray Eagle and payload. QRC-2 supported ground "is test was the !rst operational into the !ght more quickly. QRC-1 was units at the National Training Center test for the ER/MP and was designed !elded in !scal year 2009 and QRC-2 in much the same way they will when to show the potential for the system late in !scal year 2010. they deploy. "ey #ew day and night— to meet design requirements for the While preparing for deployment, often for long periods of time without mission. ! QRC-2 Soldiers tested their Gray Eagle landing—up to 19.9 hours on one UAS in a limited user test, May 22 sortie. through June 4, 2010. During the test, "e 12 operators of the unit, swap- 17 Soldiers demonstrated to the Army ping between aircraft operator and pay- Test and Evaluation Command and the load operator, worked 24/7 to support —Je"rey Crabb, deputy productmMan- Training and Doctrine Command capa- the mission. In a historic moment, they ager/UAS Project O!ce

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HE Small Unmanned Ground Soldiers hunting for the enemy in ments included more rigid #ippers to Vehicle allows Soldiers to send both urban and tactical environments keep the tread from coming o$ and a robotic “eyes and ears” into need the ability to examine potential redesigned transit case to better protect Tpotential danger areas while minimiz- threats safely, and track the enemy into the antenna. ing risk. enclosed spaces; the SUGV gives them "e SUGV, the Urban Unattended "e SUGV is a small, man-pack- this ability. Ground Sensor, Tactical Unattended able robotic system weighing about Recent improvements in the Ground Sensor, and the Class I 31 pounds. Each system consists of an SUGV include improved radio range Unmanned Aircraft System will be operator control unit, a robotic chassis and network connectivity, improved networked to give Soldiers and com- platform with video capability, digital environmental quali!cation testing, manders the best situational awareness communications/audio relay modules and improved imagery from the sensor possible on the battle!eld. (plug in/out), and advanced sensors/ to the network workstation, with an "e Army is scheduled to !eld the mission modules. It has both a soft case emphasis on increasing the night in- !rst set of new unmanned vehicles that can be carried by a Soldier like a frared range for target recognition and and sensors, including the SUGV, to backpack, and a rugged storage con- research to further reduce the weight of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st tainer used to transport the system. the system. Armored Division at Fort Bliss, Texas, While unattended ground sensors "e strength and durability of the this year. Follow-on BCTs will be help Soldiers and commanders gain SUGV’s sensor neck, the strength of all equipped with these systems based on a clearer picture of the battle space brackets and latches and the rugged- Army Force Generation. ! around static positions, they must be ness of the video camera in the payload manually placed and cannot move were improved in response to testing around potential threats. Sometimes evaluations. Soldier-driven improve- —PEO Ground Combat Systems

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HE UH-72A Lakota Light to #y in non-hostile and permissive to support training at the combined Utility Helicopter is the environments, which allow the civil training centers at Fort Irwin, Calif., Army’s newest helicopter. On certi!cation. "is concept aided the Fort Polk, La., and in Germany. TJune 30, 2006, the Army awarded rapid acquisition and !elding of the "e S&S BN MEP includes an a contract to EADS North America UH-72A. electro-optical sensor, searchlight, to deliver and support the Lakota. It "e EC-145 is a modern twin- laser pointer and equipment for is replacing aging UH-1 and OH- engine aircraft. "e standard con!gu- displaying and downlinking data. 58A/C aircraft in use by the Army ration carries two pilots and up to "e CTC MEP has more radios, a National Guard and at test and six passengers, and the MEDEVAC loudspeaker and equipment to simu- training centers across the U.S. and its con!guration has two pilots, up to late shooting and being shot at. territories, as well as in Germany. three passengers and two litters that "e UH-72A Lakota has quickly "e Lakota is unique because it is are mounted to the #oor. "e MEDE- been deployed with the Army, a variant of a commercial aircraft, the VAC aircraft also has racks to support providing improved capability and Eurocopter EC-145. "e UH-72A the carriage of equipment such as availability. "ere are more than 100 is Federal Aviation Administration de!brillators, pumps and IV bottles. Lakotas #ying with National Guard certi!ed. It is #own and maintained In the last year, to further increase and Army units today, and they have in accordance with FAA requirements, the capability of the UH-72A, two amassed more than 30,000 #ight and everything on the aircraft (except major mission equipment package hours. An additional 80 aircraft will for the ARC-231 secure radio) is kits were being developed: one for enter service by the end of this year commercially available and certi!ed the National Guard’s security and and by 2016, 345 total will be in by the FAA. "e Lakota is intended support battalion mission, the other use. !

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HE Force Provider Team, part of the Product Manager Force Sustainment Systems o%ce, has Tdesigned and developed a state-of-the- art Shower Water Reuse System. "e SWRS is a rapidly deployable, mobile, self-sustaining system, capable of recovering up to 9,000 gallons per day of shower wastewater. "is capabil- ity increases the Army’s ability to re- duce the logistical and security burden of water delivery to forward operating bases and combat outposts. Product Manager Force Sustain- ment Systems has delivered the !rst eight SWRS units for deployment to Afghanistan as part of an add-on capa- bility to the Force Provider base camp modules. Force Provider modules, a$ectionately known as the Army’s Home Away from Home, provide billeting; personal hygiene; laundry; morale, welfare and recreation; and a !eld feeding capability for 600 Sol- diers. "e Force Provider team works to continually improve the quality of life for Soldiers in the !eld. "e SWRS uses self-cleaning operation for up to three days, and Additionally, U.S. Forces Afghani- !lters and reverse osmosis technol- water quality is continually monitored stan had a need for standardized Army ogy, combined with an easy-to-use, through conductivity sensors. "e equipment that reduced the logistics touch-screen LCD user interface. "e touch-screen display gives the user vis- footprint at their base camps, particu- wastewater is !rst !ltered through a 15 ibility of real-time #ows and pressures, larly since the troop surge, which had a micron pre-!lter and two 0.2 micron set-up and operating instructions, and multiplier e$ect on troop sustainment. micro!lters, followed by three 8-inch troubleshooting procedures. "e system As a result, the Army has allocated saltwater reverse osmosis elements. "is is operational in temperatures from additional funding to support a request water is then !ltered further through 120 degrees F down to -15 degrees F, for 80 more SWRS systems that will be two carbon !lters, exposed to bacteria- with an add-on cold weather kit. ! used throughout Afghanistan. killing UV light, and !nally shocked "e 75 percent recovery rate of the with calcium hypochlorite to prevent SWRS will translate to a tremendous coliform growth. cost savings to the Army, considering "e SWRS is housed in an 8 by 8 —PM Force Sustainment Systems, Proj- some estimates put the cost of usable by 6.5-feet triple container, or TRI- ect Management Force Projection, PEO water at the tactical edge in Afghani- CON, and weighs less than 8,000 Combat Support and Combat Service stan at nearly $20 per gallon. pounds. It is capable of unattended Support

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 45 by their reliance on bat- Energy harvesting teries. Scavenging energy from ambient vibrations, wind, heat or light could enable these devices to NERGY harvesting (also known function inde"nitely. as power harvesting or energy A prototype is in development at scavenging) is the process by White Sands Missile Range, N.M., that Ewhich energy is derived from external replaces wired test instrumentation with sources (e.g., solar power, thermal en- a wireless, self-powered, self-organizing ergy, wind energy and kinetic energy), and self-healing network of sensor and captured and stored. !e fuel for nodes, designed to be embedded and to carry into combat. In addition, the energy harvesting is naturally present assembled into unmanned ground and scavenger nodes could be incorporated and is therefore considered free. aerial systems. Energy to power these into tactical vehicles and systems, A driving force behind the search sensor nodes is scavenged from ambient replacing cumbersome alternative for new energy harvesting devices is vibration and heat energy, converted into power units and reducing the weight the desire to power sensor networks, electrical energy, providing the energy to of the vehicle, which correlates to less unmanned vehicles and mobile devices, support critical test functions. consumption. ! without batteries. !ese systems are !is system could be used to replace often very small and require little battery packs found on Soldiers’ radios — F.A. Macias/Test Resource Manage- power, but their applications are limited and would reduce the load they have ment Center

Solar technology for Soldiers

HE Army has developed a lightweight solar rucksack kit valuable information in deciding the that enables Soldiers to harvest most critical battery types to make Tenergy from the sun and multiple charging adapters for, taking full battle"eld power sources. advantage of the capabilities the system !e Rucksack Enhanced Portable o#ers,” said Tony Bui, the REPPS Power System, or REPPS, uses a fold- project engineer with the Command able, anti-glint, 65-watt solar panel and and Control Directorate’s Army Power connectors to convert energy from the Division. sun into power for recharging batter- So far, 75 of the 725 kits that are ies, or to directly power radios, laptops, being developed will be provided to surveillance cameras and reconnais- various infantry divisions and brigade at small combat outposts or moun- sance devices. combat teams. Eighty kits will be deliv- taintop retransmission sites. Target- !e REPPS was developed by the ered within a few months to the Joint ing 350 watts of output power and a U.S. Army Research Development and Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, two-man lift weight of 120 pounds, Engineering Command’s Communica- La., for rotating units to train on before the Reusing Existing Natural Energy tions, Electronics, Research, Develop- deploying with them to Afghanistan. Wind and Solar system was scheduled ment and Engineering Center, with So what’s next on the renewable to begin operational assessments in valuable input from Soldiers. Opera- horizon? Based on the success of the December. ! tional assessments during development REPPS, CERDEC is developing a led to the addition of a NATO plug to renewable energy-in-a-box system that tap into vehicle power, and an AC wall includes solar panels, a small commer- plug that can be used in urban environ- cial wind turbine, and an energy stor- — Communications, Electronics, ments or on forward operating bases. age package (with DC to AC inverter) Research, Development and Engineering “Feedback from Soldiers provided that will provide higher power for use Center, ARDEC

46 www.army.mil/soldiers Geothermal exploration leads to green power at Hawthorne AD

HE Army is using funding source to attract a third-party developer Exploration at from the Energy Conserva- to build and operate the proposed Hawthorne is based on tion Investment Program to power plant. preliminary surface testing Tconduct exploration for geothermal Additionally, the plant would great- conducted by the GPO. (high temperature hot water) resources ly lessen the carbon footprint of a simi- Surface soils analysis, 3-D at Hawthorne Army Depot, Nev. lar fossil-fuel plant, and could provide sound testing and %yover !e ECIP is normally used to fund electric power to support the mission observations revealed energy conservation and renewable in the event of grid failure. !is green characteristics that strongly energy projects at Army installations. power supports Army renewable energy suggested the presence of !rough a cooperative agreement with e#orts to meet federal standards. a subsurface geothermal the O$ce of the Secretary of Defense, !e plant planned at Hawthorne resource. Development of ECIP funds are being used to accom- will be patterned after the Navy Geo- the power plant is one of plish geothermal test wells in order to thermal Program O$ce operation at the secretary of the Army’s determine the presence of a hot water China Lake, Calif. !at plant has oper- energy initiatives. ! resource suitable to operate a 30-mega- ated for more than 20 years, and pro- watt power plant. duces peak power of 250 megawatts. !e ultimate goal is to use the !e power is sold to the local electric — Geothermal Program exploration results and con"rmed re- grid, which distributes it to users. O!ce

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Sgt. 1st Class Jarrett Jongema

In 2004, while deployed in Iraq, Sgt. 1st Class Jarrett Jongema the best fit for their service. His love for the Army and his suffered serious, life-threatening injuries. Fellow unit member commitment to making each Soldier’s experience the best Sgt. Maj. Scott Wilmont recalls, “He had to be resuscitated that it can be is helping the Soldiers and keeping the Army four times. He just wouldn’t give up.” And he still hasn’t. After strong. Sgt. 1st. Class Jongema is also an ardent supporter a long and arduous rehabilitation, Sgt. 1st Class Jongema of, and public speaker for, the Wounded Warrior Program. accepted a position as an assignment manager at Human Where does he find the strength to keep going? “I do what Resources Command where he helps new Soldiers find I do because I believe in our Army and in our Soldiers.” The Nation’s strength starts here.