{"id":44439,"date":"2020-09-10T17:08:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T17:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/09\/10\/army-conducting-digital-louisiana-maneuvers-in-arizona-desert\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:39:13","slug":"army-conducting-digital-louisiana-maneuvers-in-arizona-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2020\/09\/10\/army-conducting-digital-louisiana-maneuvers-in-arizona-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Project Convergence: How the US Army is preparing for war in the next decade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Army is in the midst of conducting what Army Futures Command Commander Gen. Mike Murray is calling \u201cthis generation\u2019s digital Louisiana Maneuvers\u201d in the Arizona desert, as the service aims to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/information-warfare\/2020\/07\/21\/the-armys-new-directorate-eyes-multidomain-integration\/\" target=_blank>bring key technologies together <\/a>designed to fight across air, land, sea, space and cyber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The famed Louisiana Maneuvers, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historynet.com\/louisiana-maneuvers-1940-41.htm\" target=_blank>series of mock battles<\/a> during World War II, were designed to figure out how the United States could use its existing technology to fight in a fundamentally different way against the German military\u2019s airplanes, radios and tanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was a combination of those three technologies and how the Germans put it together to execute what we call Blitzkrieg&#8221; that was \u201cfundamentally different\u201d than any of the capabilities the Allied forces, to include the U.S., brought to the battlefield, Murray told Defense News in an exclusive interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2020, there are three key technologies that when paired together in novel ways can provide a strong advantage against possible conflict with near-peer adversaries, according to Murray: artificial intelligence, autonomy and robotics in the air and on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo make those three work in a digital environment, you have to have an underlying robust and resilient network,\u201d Murray said, \u201cand you have to have a data architecture and the data and the talent to put all that together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enter Project Convergence, the Army\u2019s weekslong \u201ccampaign of learning\u201d to bring together the weapons and capabilities it envisions fighting with in the 2030s and beyond in a seamlessly networked environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The capstone event began in the middle of August and will wrap up September 18 amid the global coronavirus pandemic. Murray reported there has been only one isolated case of COVID-19 at Yuma and that person was quickly isolated without the disease spreading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The effort aims to bring in as many capabilities across the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2019\/08\/22\/avoiding-past-mistakes-are-the-armys-modernization-plans-on-the-right-course\/\" target=_blank>Army\u2019s six modernization priorities<\/a> as possible and put them through maneuvers that service\u2019s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa\/2018\/10\/09\/from-multi-domain-battle-to-multi-domain-operations-army-evolves-its-guiding-concept\/\" target=_blank>Multidomain Operations (MDO) <\/a>warfighting concept lays out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service is particularly focused on three key phases of MDO at Project Convergence:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Penetrating and neutralizing enemy long-range systems, contesting enemy maneuver forces from operational and strategic distances<\/li><li>Disintegrating the enemy\u2019s anti-access and area denial (A2AD) systems taking out enemy long- and short-range systems while conducting independent maneuver and deception operations<\/li><li>Exploiting freedom to maneuver to defeat enemy objectives and forces.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cConvergence is one of the tenets,\u201d Murray said. \u201cThe ability to converge effects across all five warfighting domains (air, land, sea, cyber and space) and we\u2019re really taking that tenant and putting it together in the dirt live and bringing multiple things together&#8230; and the key thing is here is being able to act faster than any opponent in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Murray also discussed Convergence as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/defense-news-conference\/\" target=_blank>2020 Defense News Conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Getting the upper hand<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To act faster, the Army has moved a system called Firestorm out of a science and technology effort from Picatinny Arsenal\u2019s armaments center and into the exercise. Firestorm is being developed as the brain that connects the sensors on the battlefield to the right shooter through the appropriate command and control node, Murray explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI firmly believe on a future battlefield, the commander that can see first, understand first, decide first and the act first will have a distinct advantage and will ultimately win any future battle,\u201d Murray said, \u201cso that\u2019s this learning experience year to year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Project Convergence will have surrogate capability this year representing its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/army-modernization\/2020\/03\/25\/lockheed-and-bell-will-compete-head-to-head-to-build-us-armys-future-attack-recon-aircraft\/\" target=_blank>Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2020\/03\/16\/army-selects-companies-to-continue-on-in-long-range-assault-aircraft-competition\/\" target=_blank>Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft<\/a>, as well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2020\/03\/06\/army-takes-40-mile-shots-from-extended-range-cannon-in-demo\/\" target=_blank>Extended Range Cannon Artillery system<\/a>, more and more technologies across the Army\u2019s modernization priorities will be brought in in subsequent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army, this year, is also using available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2020\/08\/24\/army-awards-air-launched-effects-contracts-for-future-helicopters\/\" target=_blank>Air-Launched Effects (ALE)<\/a> as well as a surrogate system called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/battlefield-tech\/it-networks\/2020\/06\/09\/what-the-armys-titan-program-means-to-multidomain-operations\/\" target=_blank>Titan<\/a> \u2014 at Joint Base Lewis McChord in Washington State \u2014 that will process targeting information from ground and air autonomous vehicles using artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Titan is managed by the Army\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2018\/08\/28\/multidomain-operations-task-force-cuts-teeth-in-pacific\/\" target=_blank>Multidomain Task Force\u2019s<\/a> Intelligence, Information, Cyber, Electronic Warfare and Space <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2020\/01\/10\/army-adviser-brigade-headed-to-pacific-in-fy21\/\" target=_blank>(I2CEWS) battalion<\/a>. The system will pass targeting information to a fire control element sitting at Yuma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The service is also experimenting with space sensing capabilities this year and bringing it all together using new network architecture. \u201cThe network is a huge piece of this and so we are building out mesh networks, communications between the air in terms of Gray Eagle [unmanned aircraft system] and ALE and [Future Vertical Lift] surrogates to the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2019\/09\/05\/jumping-into-algorithmic-warfare-army-aviation-tightens-kill-chain-with-networked-architecture\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GrayEagle.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Jumping into algorithmic warfare: US Army aviation tightens kill chain with networked architecture<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">A demonstration of an Army-developed capability showed the ability to nimbly pass control between operators of drones and munitions through a networked architecture of systems.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hope from the first year is to walk away with conclusions about whether technology currently being developed works, Murray said. \u201cCan we actually link multiple sensors and shooters right? In this case, it\u2019s not a huge number. It\u2019s less than a handful,\u201d he said, \u201cbut the ability for Firestorm to figure out the right shooter against the right target is one of the key things we\u2019re driving and then can we do this in near-real time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During National Training Center rotations, \u201cit takes a while to clear fires,\u201d Murray said. \u201cSo what is that order of magnitude we can do this faster, to see faster and really put rounds on target faster.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early intel out of Project Convergence is that Firestorm has already shown \u201cgreat success\u201d and \u201cthe ability to put lethal effects on a target much, much, much faster than we do right now in an order of magnitude that is at least 10 times faster,\u201d Murray said, \u201cbut we still have a ways to go.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1861\" height=\"1489\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ERCA-PIM.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ERCA-PIM.jpg.jpg 1861w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ERCA-PIM.jpg.jpg?resize=300,240 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ERCA-PIM.jpg.jpg?resize=768,614 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ERCA-PIM.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,819 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ERCA-PIM.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1229 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1861px) 100vw, 1861px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground conducts developmental testing of multiple facets of the Extended Range Cannon Artillery project, from artillery shells to the longer cannon tube and larger firing chamber the improved howitzer will need to accommodate them. (Army)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Spiraling in capability<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Project Convergence this year came together quickly, Murray said. The inspiration came from an AI-focused effort through the Army\u2019s Next-Generation Combat Vehicle (NGCV) modernization outfit dubbed Project Quarterback, which paired automated target recognition with future combat vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brig. Gen. Ross Coffman, who is in charge of the NGCV cross-functional team, discussed what he was doing with Murray over the winter, with the latter saying \u201cIt just occurred to me, it should have occurred to me a long time ago. It is so much bigger than that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army is already wrapping up its plans for Project Convergence in 2021 and setting its sites on what is possible in 2022, according to Murray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/smd\/2020\/08\/13\/army-missile-defense-battle-command-system-takes-out-cruise-missile-threats-in-major-test\/\" target=_blank> Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS)<\/a>, the command and control system for the Army\u2019s future air-and-missile defense system, was tied up in Limited User Test this year, the service is looking for a way to integrate that into the effort next year. IBCS will be going through its Initial Operational Test and Evaluation at that time, but Murray said he is hopeful there is a way to bring the integral capability of the system to the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another test of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/news\/your-army\/2020\/04\/30\/us-army-completes-third-test-of-lockheeds-precision-strike-missile\/\" target=_blank>Precision Strike Munition (PrSM)<\/a> will also be executed during the event next year. The missile had three successful test shots this calendar year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And while the exercise this year had roughly 500 people at Yuma this year, most of those are data collectors, Murray said. The exercise represents a platoon-sized operation, but in 2021, Murray said he intends to bring in an operational headquarters element to drive the learning in terms of how \u201cwe organize and how we fight the capability in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ideally, the Army would involve one of the MDTF units, but due to conflicts in schedule this year it wasn\u2019t possible to bring them into the event, so the service is working with U.S. Army Forces Command to incorporate MDTF participation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next year will also bring in joint participation. While the Air Force will be present at Project Convergence this year, the Army plans to use the F-35 fighter into the architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joint participation is critical to developing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/battlefield-tech\/2020\/07\/16\/army-wants-early-industry-input-on-jadc2-battlefield-concept\/\" target=_blank>Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2),<\/a> which is the joint warfighting doctrine now in development of which MDO as a concept is a part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cConvergence is our contribution to an all-domain command-and-control,\u201d Murray emphasized, \u201cand it is not in conflict with what the Air Force is doing with JADC2 and the [Air-Battle Management System].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2022, Murray said the plan is to bring coalition partners and so far the United Kingdom has committed to participation and Australia will also likely sign on to 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