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In the course of modernization of its forces regard to 2030, the Pentagon is considering reducing the number of single-channel ground and airborne radio system SINCGARS family in the army. Writes about this edition of National Defense, with reference to the it Director of one of the divisions of the armed forces of the United States Raj Iyer.
According to the military, the service tries to find the best option to meet the budget allocated for the modernization of the means of communication and, at the same time, not to create a shortage of radio stations in the army. He noted that today as tactical radios used by hundreds of thousands of vulnerable and outdated models of the family SINCGARS.
said Iyer during the annual conference of the Association of the U.S. army in Washington.
In turn, according to the publication, Iyer said that at the moment it is impossible to upgrade all radios to the level of encryption required by the NSA.
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National Defense reminds that this year, the Pentagon has concluded contracts with companies L3Harris and Thales in the amount of $ 6 billion for a program of modernization of the Combat Net radio until 2030.
As writes the edition, experts in the US armed forces now studied carefully in any system, you can still use the connection vulnerable and those in need of improved encryption.
According to Ayer, the service aims to adapt their needs in regard to each potential theater of war, abandoning the principle of "one type fits all."
In addition, he added that along with tactical radio service reduces the number of its data centers. The initial strategy of the digital transformation of the army included the elimination of six of the 12 data centers, but Iyer said that he added to the list another one. In turn, the remaining five will be associated in a commercial cloud as early as 2023.
