Earlier this week, CPT Bol Jock, a Field Artillery Officer and Battery Commander in the U.S. Army, wrote an interesting piece in Small Wars Journal regarding how “The Agile Mindset” can provide a practical approach to implementing the Army Transformation Initiative (ATI). His thoughts are relevant to our objective here at REDCOM — giving warfighters the communications capabilities they need to ensure mission success at the tactical edge.
In fact, technology only pays off when it enables people to make quicker decisions and collaborate across domains. That’s exactly where REDCOM Sigma fits — as the interoperable tactical communications and C2 fabric that makes an Agile Army possible in contested, degraded, and limited environments.
A quick brief on the article
The article reframes transformation away from acquisition checklists and toward a cultural and operational shift: decentralize decision-making, empower cross-functional communication and teamwork, measure outcomes, and build continuous learning habits. Those principles are exactly the kind of operational behaviors a tactical communications backbone must enable in order to be useful. Thankfully, REDCOM Sigma has that covered.
How REDCOM Sigma maps to the Agile principles
Below are the practical ways Sigma helps units achieve the article’s Agile goals.
Faster, safer decentralization
Agile requires commanders to push decision authority to the point of action — but doing that safely needs dependable, prioritized, and role-aware communications. REDCOM Sigma:
- Delivers resilient, interoperable voice/data paths that persist in contested environments.
- Prioritizes critical traffic so time-sensitive decisions get through even under bandwidth stress.
- C2 Console allows an operator to listen to and organize communications, ensuring that everyone who needs to hear a transmission does.
Real cross-functional collaboration
Agile teams need a shared operating picture and frictionless comms across echelons and domains. Sigma provides:
- Integrated voice, video, chat, and conferencing solutions that let disparate teams talk to one another.
- Interoperability with legacy radios and modern comms endpoints so teams can rapidly communicate without ripping out already fielded equipment.
- Low learning curve, allowing teams to get trained on and using our technology in just hours, not weeks, like our competitors.
Rapid solution deployment — start small, scale fast
An Agile approach starts small and scales what works. Sigma was built on open standards with a focus on interoperability, flexibility, and ease of use. The Sigma product ecosystem supports:
- Plug-and-play fielding of mission applications and services, shortening the path from experiment to unit use.
- Backwards/forwards interoperability so new capabilities ride atop existing comms instead of waiting for new infrastructure.
- REDCOM Sigma can easily be scaled from the tactical edge to enterprise-level organizations and from squads to entire brigades.
Next steps: Implementing the Agile framework with REDCOM Sigma
CPT Bol Jock’s recent thought piece provides an excellent framing of the Army Transformation Initiative around an Agile mindset. REDCOM Sigma helps make that mindset operational by delivering resilient, cross-domain communications and plug-and-play capability insertion so small units can make fast, informed decisions.
Contact our team if you would like a demo of how REDCOM Sigma can achieve the objectives outlined in this article.
