Scalable garners contract to enhance battlefield tactical networks
NewsJanuary 26, 2017
CULVER CITY, Calif. Scalable Network Technologies has been awarded a three-year, $3 million contract to support the Test &Evaluation/Science & Technology Program at the Department of Defense (DoD) Test Resource Management Center. Scalable is slated to support the Integrated Planning of Tactical, Test Support, and Tactical Engagement Networks (IPT3N).
IPT3N will help to identify and mitigate potential interference among the networked system under test and the test infrastructure equipment and will enable test planners to ensure that the test support network (TSN) provides adequate coverage to the exercise control (EXCon) and real-time casualty assessment (RTCA) applications for status monitoring, data collection, and interactions between live and virtual forces on the battlefield. This integrated planning capability will make operational tests more realistic, reduce testing costs and planning time, and improve resource use by optimizing placement of towers and replanning mobile and airborne assets on-demand to optimize a given deployment.
John Diem, director of test technology at U.S. Army Operational Test Command at Fort Hood, says that "IPT3N has great potential to help the Operational Test Command close several key gaps in our planning and deployment of tactical, tactical engagement, and test support networks as we prepare to do more expeditionary testing, on dramatically compressed schedules, to test the next generation of combat and combat-support systems."
