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C5ISR Center Enhances 5G Wireless Network Technology

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, mentioned how battlefields were rapidly altering and how “adjustment is no longer an advantage – it’s a requirement for survival.”

Army scientists and technical experts at the U.S. Army Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center, are committed 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 capability to see, sense, interact, and move much faster than near-peer enemies.

In line with our military forces having the capability to “see and interact,” the Center has adapted and improved Fifth-Generation wireless network technology, more frequently called 5G. Improved 5G capabilities will enhance network durability across a theater of operations-ensuring constant operations with minimal interruptions or failures. Additionally, 5G is considerably faster than its predecessors, more steady, and secure. 5G likewise has a shorter data-processing hold-up across networks-this delay is referred to as latency.

“On today’s battleground, Soldiers, cars, and devices are typically spread out throughout excellent ranges,” stated Beth Ferry, C5ISR Center Director. “The Army needs to guarantee its units stay interconnected despite austere conditions, ecological and geographical obstacles, or disturbance from enemy forces. The low-latency and high reliability of 5G networks would ensure that fight and support groups stay linked and can interact without hold-ups or dropped signals.”

5G technology has actually had prevalent business availability given that 2019. The C5ISR Center has been at the leading edge of adjusting 5G technology for tactical use, while working together with industry, because 2020. The enhanced 5G wireless information technology that the C5ISR Center is adjusting, offers the Army and its warfighters a needed increase in its cellular capability.

The C5ISR Center’s magnified 5G screening will help the Army reach its next level of network connection. With the increased variety of service members heading to the U.S.-Mexico border, and the increase in international conflicts, advanced connection ends up being a necessity.

“Our objective is to improve the network by leveraging commercial technology,” said Mike Piesen, C5ISR Center 5G Lead. “Where cellular really shines is through its scalability and latency. As we bring in more robotics and autonomous platforms into the exact same area, and spectrum gets more overloaded, the high spectral effectiveness of 5G becomes important.”

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 group began explore 5G innovations to enhance its protected command post systems and to stay less noticeable.

“We can utilize the business networks in location when we feel the network is relied on,” stated Piesen. “There’s an important idea of ‘hiding in plain sight’ when it comes to 5G. As cellular networks become increasingly more ubiquitous, business signals in the electro-magnetic (EM) spectrum end up being more common and modified military signals can become more noticeable.”

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

Throughout the next couple of months, the C5ISR Center will experiment, test, and refine its 5G capabilities throughout Network Modernization Experiment 25. The Center will work to utilize existing facilities to minimize expenses. Once the Center establishes a fully grown 5G capability, this improvement would permit more with faster real-time data processing.

“What we desire to do is to attempt to utilize existing infrastructure any place we go, if we can do it safely and safely,” stated Piesen. “So, it assists if we can utilize what’s currently there, however we’ll also bring our own private cellular network. By doing this, it offers the best of both worlds where you can get the universal coverage that individuals expect.”

By including more 5G information technology into Army operations, this upgrade could increase interaction reliability and potentially decrease restrictions in bandwidth, speed, and security-establishing network strength throughout the Army. Additionally, 5G enhancements would make it possible for real-time partnership between ground systems, improving situational awareness, and ensure near-instantaneous, safe transmission of critical data throughout long distances-which in turn can improve Soldier-lethality.

“Certain innovation permits us to link-up together, and not just cell phones. We can have vehicles, drones, sensing units, or perhaps Soldiers on the move,” said Piesen. “There’s a lot you can do with 5G and cellular, in terms of the economy of scale for the handhelds that you may not be able to make with more traditional tactical systems.”

If a facilities doesn’t exist, don’t worry, the Center has that covered too. The organization can bring its own. “We can leverage the very same base-station innovation to bring that smooth wireless ability where it’s required most at the tactical edge,” said Piesen.

The development of 5G information technology with high-speed data transmission might supply an important capability to companies globally. Having enhanced capabilities could permit unmanned aerial systems and unmanned ground lorries to run effectively and effectively in a multi-domain operation.

“The cellular market invests about 100 billion dollars a year into enhancing just 5G/6G innovation,” stated Piesen, “The federal government can’t keep up with that level of industrial investment, but we can take advantage of it by carrying out 5G where it makes 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 innovation advancement center for C5ISR abilities. As the Army’s primary integrator of C5ISR innovations and systems, DEVCOM C5ISR Center supports our networked Warfighters by recognizing, developing, developing, and rapidly incorporating ingenious technologies to drive continuous transformation.

DEVCOM C5ISR Center is a possession of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command. DEVCOM is Army Futures Command’s leader and integrator within an international community of clinical expedition and technological development. DEVCOM proficiency covers 8 major competency areas to offer integrated research, advancement, analysis and engineering support to the Army and DOD. From rockets to robotics, drones to dozers, and air travel to weapons – DEVCOM development is at the core of the battle capabilities American Warfighters need to win on the battleground of the future. For more info, check out c5isrcenter.devcom.army.mil/.