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25 July 2015

Army's new command-posts-to-go support expeditionary maneuvers

Jul 22, 2015

The Light-Mobile Command Post is a TAC on wheels.

Military forces these days increasingly have to be ready to be deployed as expeditionary forces—sent out on short notice, often in remote environments and assigned to carry out specific short-term tasks as soon as they arrive. And one of the keys to being a successful expeditionary force is being, well, expeditious in setting up and taking down a command post.

With that in mind, Army researchers have come up with three mobile expeditionary command post configurations, each tailored to types of deployments or forces of various sizes. And the researchers were expeditious about it, too, completing their designs in nine months, according to a news release.


The Expeditionary Command Post Capabilities project, or ECPC, was the result of a collaboration between the Army’s Research, Development and Engineering Command’s communications-electronics center, known as CERDEC, and the Training and Doctrine Command, or TRADOC.

A look at what they produced:


The Light-Mobile Command Post

L-MCP is designed for forces at the brigade level and below. It can be integrated into a light vehicle and includes a quick-erect tent, fold-out table, light but large screens, tactical network components (Warfighter Information Network-Tactical Increment 1) and converged voice communications and mission command systems. What’s more, it can be set up in five minutes, said Jim Clarke, ECPC systems engineer. “The streamlined configuration allows for an even quicker tear down should an emergency situation arise,” he said.

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