Strong and enduring security coalitions between the U.S. and its international allies have been a hallmark of the U.S. National Defense Strategy, providing a significant advantage over potential challengers.
Our allies and partners have historically been key to the U.S. integrated deterrence strategy, but perhaps never more so than they are today. Our colleague, LTG James Terry (ret), has written on the importance of allies and partners as we compete in the Gray Zone to maintain a free and open Indo-Pacific and meet and deter other strategic threats around the world.
Accordingly, collaborating on capabilities that enable real-time communication and securely sharing mission data remains an enduring mission for the U.S. and its coalition partners. Achieving this goal means aligning interoperability technologies that deliver federated environments for real-time situational awareness and accelerated decision-making amongst combined forces.
In recent years, several multi-domain technologies have facilitated new levels of cooperation and interoperability between the U.S. and its allies, sharpening the U.S.' competitive edge and helping to ensure that the military forces of the U.S. and its allies and partners continue to outpace peer adversaries on the world stage.
Commercial Coalition Equipment and the Mission Partner Environment
Our DTECH Edge Compute and Networking Solutions are key platforms in the U.S. Army's Commercial Coalition Equipment and core components of the Mission Partner Environment (MPE), facilitating the data fabric for expeditionary coalition network interoperability.
These tactical edge computing and networking nodes provide a platform for mission command applications and a shared operating picture for combined coalition forces to ensure that they can effectively operate at the edge.
Staying ahead of our rapidly advancing competitors means doubling down on these technologies to increase operational capability and flexibility, allowing the U.S. military and its allies to seamlessly connect and operate in the Mission Partner Environment with ease, uniformity, and speed.
Facilitating Communication with Real-Time Language Translation
Historically, one of the biggest barriers to optimized coordination between the U.S. and its global allies has been the most obvious: the language gap. On-the-ground translators have helped, but faster solutions are desperately needed in environments where decisions need to be made in a matter of minutes (if not seconds).
This is precisely why Cubic DTECH Mission Solutions has partnered with Instant Connect Software and Rally Tactical Systems to offer tactical radio interoperability with our Vocality RoIP, M3-SE, and M3X compute and networking platforms. The technology provides warfighters with a Radio over Internet Protocol (RoIP) capability to accomplish the mission with versatile "any language to any language" voice translation. This means warfighters and coalition partners can instantly communicate with one another, regardless of language—an indispensable function in our era of 'Gray Zone' global military competition.
Information and Data Sharing with Partners
The importance of real-time translation is matched only by the need for real-time data transmission. Delays in information sharing due to security concerns can hamstring how services and their partners operate. Too often, there has been a trade-off between security and speed when it comes to getting crucial information to U.S. allies, with the prevailing wisdom being that you can have one but not the other.
Cubic's secure, cross-domain transfer appliances and solutions radically change this calculus, delivering essential information to our allies at the speed of intelligence. Certified and secured for use cases from unclassified to top-secret, they allow for the rapid movement of information while at the same time ensuring security. They offer data transfer speeds of 1-10 gigabytes per second at a lower power utilization than any comparable product. And its graphic user interface is extremely user-friendly, meaning system administrators aren't needed to use them—further accelerating the circulation of essential information.
Securing the Future
Gray zone competition will continue to escalate and intensify, demanding the undivided attention of the United States and its partners as they prepare to act in a multi-domain environment with combined forces. Maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific region will not be easy, but these technologies will help us stay ahead of China while maintaining stability for the US and our partner nations.
