Mark Pomerleau

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The House and Senate Armed Services Committees passed a provision paving the way for an independent study assessing the potential creation of a sixth armed service focused on cyber.

The final version of the conferenced bill between the House and Senate Armed Services Committee alters prior legislation in favor of a cyber intelligence "capability" rather than a "center."

The Army is doing away with its Command Post Integrated Infrastructure (CPI2) initiative.

With several network modernization efforts in the works, the program office is seeking to examine the right mix of radios for units.

The Army will begin providing the integrated tactical network to armored formations in 2025, following the fielding for light units.

With continuing resolutions limiting work to be done on new programs, the Army is using current capabilities to reduce risk to speed development once funding becomes available.

While language directing an independent assessment for a potential cyber force was weakened, observers are staying positive because the study made it into the final defense policy bill this year.

The Army is looking to do things differently in pursing Next Generation Command and Control, to include iterative and updated "characteristics of needs" documents to industry.

The Army concurrently ran its Warfighter Exercise with Yama Sakura, a first in the Japanese-American annual event's 40-year history.