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 battlegrounds were rapidly altering and how "adjustment is no longer an advantage - it's a requirement for survival."
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Army scientists and technical experts at the U.S. Army Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center, are devoted to establishing innovation and devices to increase those chances of survivability. The Center's goal is to guarantee U.S. military forces have the capability to see, sense, communicate, and move much faster than near-peer adversaries.

In line with our military forces having the ability to "see and interact," the Center has adjusted and improved Fifth-Generation cordless network innovation, more typically referred to as 5G. Improved 5G capabilities will enhance network resilience across a theater of operations-ensuring continuous operations with minimal disturbances or failures. Additionally, 5G is substantially faster than its predecessors, more steady, and protect. 5G likewise has a much shorter data-processing delay across networks-this hold-up is referred to as latency.

"On today's battleground, Soldiers, vehicles, and devices are typically expanded throughout country miles," stated Beth Ferry, C5ISR Center Director. "The Army needs to ensure its units stay interconnected regardless of austere conditions, ecological and geographical obstacles, or disturbance from enemy forces. The low-latency and high dependability of 5G networks would make sure that battle and assistance teams stay linked and can interact without hold-ups or dropped signals."

5G technology has had prevalent commercial availability considering that 2019. The C5ISR Center has been at the leading edge of adjusting 5G innovation for tactical usage, while working together with market, given that 2020. The improved 5G wireless innovation that the C5ISR Center is adapting, gives the Army and its warfighters a needed boost in its cellular capability.

The C5ISR Center's amplified 5G testing will help the Army reach its next level of network connection. With the increased number of service members heading to the U.S.-Mexico border, and the rise in international disputes, advanced connectivity becomes a requirement.

"Our objective is to improve the network by leveraging commercial technology," stated 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 very same location, and spectrum gets more congested, the high spectral performance of 5G becomes important."

To keep up with emerging technology and stay ahead of the Army's enemies, scientists and engineers with the C5ISR Center's Mobile and Survivable Command Post team started explore 5G innovations to improve its secured command post systems and to remain less noticeable.

"We can use the commercial networks in place when we feel the network is trusted," said Piesen. "There's an essential principle of 'concealing in plain sight' when it concerns 5G. As cellular networks become more and more common, industrial signals in the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum become more common and customized military signals can become more noticeable."

The C5ISR Center implemented extra security features and network protection to allow Army users to be less vulnerable to adversaries on the commercial networks.

Throughout the next couple of months, the C5ISR Center will experiment, test, and fine-tune its 5G capabilities throughout Network Modernization Experiment 25. The Center will work to utilize current infrastructures to lessen expenses. Once the Center develops a fully grown 5G capability, this improvement would enable more linked devices with faster real-time data processing.

"What we wish to do is to try to use existing facilities wherever we go, if we can do it safely and safely," said Piesen. "So, it helps if we can take advantage of what's currently there, but we'll also bring our own personal cellular network. By doing this, it offers the best of both worlds where you can get the universal protection that individuals anticipate."

By integrating more 5G technology into Army operations, this upgrade could increase interaction reliability and potentially lower restrictions in bandwidth, speed, and security-establishing network resilience across the Army. Additionally, 5G improvements would enable real-time collaboration in between ground units, enhancing situational awareness, and ensure near-instantaneous, protected transmission of vital data throughout long distances-which in turn can improve Soldier-lethality.

"Certain innovation enables us to link-up together, and not just cell phones. We can have automobiles, drones, sensors, or perhaps Soldiers on the move," said 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 have the ability to make with more traditional tactical systems."

If an infrastructure does not exist, don't fret, the Center has that covered too. The company can bring its own. "We can take advantage of the very same base-station innovation to bring that smooth wireless capability where it's needed most at the tactical edge," said Piesen.

The improvement of 5G technology with high-speed information technology transmission might provide a necessary capability to organizations globally. Having improved abilities might allow unmanned aerial systems and unmanned ground cars to operate efficiently and effectively in a multi-domain operation.
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"The cellular market invests about 100 billion dollars a year into enhancing simply 5G/6G technology," said Piesen, "The federal government can't stay up to date with that level of industrial financial investment, but we can make the most of it by implementing 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 used research and advanced innovation development center for C5ISR abilities. As the Army's primary integrator of C5ISR technologies and systems, DEVCOM C5ISR Center supports our networked Warfighters by recognizing, developing, maturing, and rapidly incorporating innovative innovations to drive continuous improvement.

DEVCOM C5ISR Center is an asset of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command. DEVCOM is Army Futures Command's leader and integrator within a global community of scientific exploration and . DEVCOM competence spans eight significant proficiency areas to offer integrated research, development, analysis and engineering assistance to the Army and DOD. From rockets to robots, drones to dozers, and air travel to artillery - DEVCOM innovation is at the core of the combat abilities American Warfighters require to win on the battleground of the future. For additional information technology, go to c5isrcenter.devcom.army.mil/.