FORT BELVOIR, Va. (June 2025)-In the Letter to the Force: Army Transformation Initiative, launched May 1, Dan Driscoll, Secretary of the Army, and Gen. Randy George, Chief of Staff of the Army, discussed how battlefields were quickly changing and how "adjustment is no longer a benefit - it's a requirement for survival."

Army researchers and technical experts at the U.S. Army Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center, are devoted to developing technology and equipment to increase those odds of survivability. The Center's goal is to make sure U.S. military forces have the ability to see, sense, communicate, and move quicker than near-peer enemies.
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In line with our military forces having the capability to "see and interact," the Center has adjusted and boosted Fifth-Generation wireless network technology, more commonly called 5G. Improved 5G abilities will reinforce network strength across a theater of operations-ensuring constant operations with very little disruptions or failures. Additionally, 5G is considerably faster than its predecessors, more steady, and protect. 5G also has a shorter data-processing hold-up across networks-this delay is called latency.

"On today's battlefield, Soldiers, automobiles, and devices are frequently spread out throughout excellent distances," said Beth Ferry, C5ISR Center Director. "The Army needs to ensure its systems remain interconnected regardless of austere conditions, ecological and geographical challenges, or interference from opponent forces. The low-latency and high reliability of 5G networks would ensure that combat and assistance teams remain connected and can interact without hold-ups or dropped signals."

5G innovation has had widespread industrial schedule since 2019. The C5ISR Center has actually been at the leading edge of adapting 5G innovation for tactical usage, while working together with industry, because 2020. The improved 5G wireless innovation that the C5ISR Center is adjusting, provides the Army and its warfighters a needed increase in its cellular capacity.

The C5ISR Center's amplified 5G screening will assist the Army reach its next level of network connectivity. With the increased variety of service members heading to the U.S.-Mexico border, and the rise in worldwide conflicts, advanced connection ends up being a need.

"Our objective is to enhance the network by leveraging industrial technology," said Mike Piesen, C5ISR Center 5G Lead. "Where cellular truly shines is through its scalability and latency. As we generate more robotics and self-governing platforms into the same location, and spectrum gets more overloaded, the high spectral effectiveness of 5G becomes vital."

To keep up with emerging innovation and stay ahead of the Army's enemies, researchers and engineers with the C5ISR Center's Mobile and Survivable Command Post team started experimenting with 5G technologies to enhance its protected command post systems and to remain less detectable.

"We can use the industrial networks in location when we feel the network is trusted," said Piesen. "There's a crucial idea of 'concealing in plain sight' when it comes to 5G. As cellular networks end up being more and more ubiquitous, commercial signals in the electro-magnetic (EM) spectrum become more common and modified military signals can become more obvious."

The C5ISR Center executed additional security functions and network security to enable Army users to be less prone to adversaries on the business networks.

Throughout the next few months, the C5ISR Center will experiment, test, and fine-tune its 5G capabilities throughout Network Modernization Experiment 25. The Center will work to use existing infrastructures to minimize costs. Once the Center develops a fully grown 5G capability, this enhancement would enable more connected devices with faster real-time data processing.

"What we wish to do is to attempt to utilize existing facilities anywhere we go, if we can do it safely and firmly," said Piesen. "So, it helps if we can leverage what's already there, but we'll likewise bring our own personal cellular network. By doing this, it provides the finest of both worlds where you can get the universal coverage that people anticipate."

By incorporating more 5G technology into Army operations, this upgrade might increase communication dependability and potentially lower restrictions in bandwidth, speed, and security-establishing network durability across the Army. Additionally, 5G improvements would enable real-time collaboration in between ground units, improving situational awareness, and make sure near-instantaneous, safe transmission of critical data across long distances-which in turn can improve Soldier-lethality.

"Certain technology allows us to link-up together, and not simply cell phones. We can have automobiles, drones, sensors, or even Soldiers on the move," stated Piesen. "There's a lot you can do with 5G and cellular, in regards to the economy of scale for the handhelds that you might not be able to do with more standard tactical systems."

If a facilities does not exist, don't fret, the Center has that covered too. The company can bring its own. "We can utilize the same base-station innovation to bring that smooth cordless ability where it's required most at the tactical edge," said Piesen.

The improvement of 5G innovation with high-speed information technology transmission might provide a necessary capability to companies internationally. Having enhanced abilities might permit unmanned aerial systems and unmanned ground cars to run efficiently and efficiently in a multi-domain operation.

"The cellular market invests about 100 billion dollars a year into improving just 5G/6G innovation," stated Piesen, "The government can't keep up with that level of industrial financial investment, but we can take benefit of it by implementing 5G where it makes good sense."

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The U.S. Army Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center is the Army's applied research study and advanced information technology advancement center for C5ISR capabilities. As the Army's main integrator of C5ISR innovations and systems, DEVCOM C5ISR Center supports our networked Warfighters by identifying, establishing, growing, and rapidly integrating ingenious technologies to drive constant transformation.

DEVCOM C5ISR Center is a property of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command. DEVCOM is Army Futures Command's leader and integrator within an international environment of clinical exploration and technological development. DEVCOM proficiency covers eight significant competency locations to offer integrated research, development, analysis and to the Army and DOD. From rockets to robots, drones to dozers, and air travel to weapons - DEVCOM innovation is at the core of the combat capabilities American Warfighters need to win on the battlefield of the future. To learn more, check out c5isrcenter.devcom.army.mil/.
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