WIN-T Increment 2 communications network moves to full rate production for the U.S. Army
NewsJune 09, 2015
FAIRFAX, Va. The Warfighter Information Network – Tactical (WIN-T) Increment 2, a General Dynamics design system for the U.S. Army, moves to full rate production. WIN-T Increment 2 gives commanders and soldiers the ability to communicate and share intelligence while on patrol.
The U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition issued an Acquisition Decision Memorandum that authorized the Army to proceed to full rate production and to field the mobile tactical communications network to the remaining Army units that are projected to receive the WIN-T Increment system through 2028.
Figure 1: A WIN-T Increment 2 soldier network extension travels across desert terrain of Fort Bliss, Texas and White Sands Missile Range, N.M. during network integration evaluation 13.1 (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army).
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Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP), High Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV), and Stryker vehicles have integrated the WIN-T Increment 2 system and to date four division headquarters and 12 brigade combat teams have the system in place. In Afghanistan, the system served Army units supporting the Security Force Assistance Brigades by replacing fixed communications infrastructure dismantled when the U.S. military closed its operating bases. WIN-T also provided a “communications grid” for humanitarian operations in West Africa last summer.
