{"id":86680,"date":"2022-03-29T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/03\/29\/project-convergence-2022-will-focus-on-both-indo-pacific-and-european-scenarios\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:58:13","slug":"project-convergence-2022-will-focus-on-both-indo-pacific-and-european-scenarios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2022\/03\/29\/project-convergence-2022-will-focus-on-both-indo-pacific-and-european-scenarios\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Convergence 2022 will focus on both Indo-Pacific and European scenarios"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 In its third year, the U.S. Army\u2019s Project Convergence demonstration<\/a> will focus on both the Indo-Pacific and European theaters while tackling how to fight with future capability at a larger scale, according to Col. Tobin Magsig, special assistant to the commander of Army Futures Command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project Convergence grew from just an Army event in the desert of Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona in 2020 to a joint evaluation in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the two previous Project Convergence events focused heavily on scenarios that might play out in the Indo-Pacific region, as the joint force continues to work out its roles and responsibilities, \u201cthe Army has got to be ready to fight anywhere, just like the rest of the joint force,\u201d Magsig told Defense News in a recent interview. \u201cWe\u2019re responsive to what\u2019s going on in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time, the United Kingdom, Australia and very likely New Zealand will participate, said Magsig. Canada will observe with plans to participate in a subsequent Project Convergence, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Army Secretary Christine Wormuth had stressed last fall that while the Army is looking heavily toward the Pacific region and its role there, Europe should never be out of focus. Just as Project Convergence 2021 was wrapping up, Russia began massing its forces along the Ukrainian border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In planning PC22, Magsig said he took the secretary\u2019s recent comments and said \u201cwe have to experiment with both in PC22, and unfortunately for the Ukrainian people, we\u2019ve seen that play out with great importance now. But we realized in November-December timeframe that we needed to expand our horizons here at Project Convergence 22.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near-peer adversary focus<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The exercise will run through two scenarios. The first will be focused on the Indo-Pacific area of operations, where the joint force and its international partners will conduct experimentation in offensive and defensive fires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scenario will tie together places relevant to the area of operation, including Joint Base Lewis McChord in Washington State, Camp Pendleton and San Clemente Island in California and Hawaii, according to Magsig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second scenario is \u201cfocused on what we\u2019re watching playing out in the [U.S. European Command] AOR\u201d and will feature a land-centric fight against the type of \u201cthreat the Ukrainians are facing every day now,\u201d Magsig said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FILE – A sergeant in the 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment from Tennessee Army National Guard deployed to Ukraine, demonstrate room clearing procedures in Yavoriv, Ukraine, Nov. 15, 2018. (Sgt. Timothy Massey\/Tennessee Army National Guard)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Most of those operations will play out at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin and the Navy\u2019s electronic warfare range at China Lake \u2014 both in California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you link those together it\u2019s a pretty large swath of land that has a range of electronic warfare sensors that we can build in a range to look like an adversary\u2019s threat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scenario will experiment with how command and control nodes from all five services can penetrate an integrated air defense system network resembling those currently being used by Russia in Ukraine. Then the joint force will sustain a land campaign against a hybrid threat much like the one \u201cyou\u2019re seeing in living color right now in Ukraine,\u201d Magsig said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That land campaign will be supported through the space and air domains and through fires capability coming from the maritime domain, he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scaling up<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

In both scenarios, the Army along with joint and coalition forces have been tasked by the Army secretary and chief to scale capability that performed well in PC21 and increase the complexity \u201cto the point where it\u2019s completely operationally relevant,\u201d Magsig said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In PC21, the Army used tactical units commanded by one- or two-star-level units, but this time, the event will scale up to three-star-level command and control nodes, according to Magsig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, the 82nd Airborne Brigade played a major role. This year, the Army will use the 3rd Armored Corps out of Fort Hood, Texas, and the 18th Airborne Corps out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elements of the Navy\u2019s Third Fleet will also participate, using its \u201cLandlocked Ship One\u201d \u2013 essentially a ship sitting in the desert at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, with its own Skipper \u2013 as part of the exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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U.S. Army Spc. Destiny Jones navigates a Robotic Combat Vehicle during Project Convergence at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., on Oct. 20, 2021. (Spc. Kayla Anstey\/U.S. Army)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

While PC21 had one element of a Marine Littoral Regiment, the plan is to scale that up to get elements from a Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Pendleton, California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Air Force brought individual fighter and bomber wings to support the exercise last year, but this year the event will include the Shadow Operations Center out of Nellis Air Base, Nevada. The service will use the event to experiment with what its next Air Operations Center might look like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while space assets were used in previous Project Convergences, in PC23 Space Command\u2019s two-star level operational headquarters will participate, according to Magsig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn PC21, we did things in ones and twos. Some of that is because we wanted to do it both in simulation and do it live and when you are doing things live with million dollar missile shots, there\u2019s a problem in terms of when you want to get at complexity, there\u2019s a thing called cost,\u201d Magsig said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So in order to scale the exercise effectively and keep the evaluation process affordable, Magsig said PC22 will use validated data from the live exercises last year and will scale capability in simulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Ukrainians aren\u2019t facing one missile a day. I think the last count I saw was something like 650 different types of missile strikes have impacted inside Ukraine,\u201d Magsig said. So \u201cif we go to war against China, it\u2019s going to be worse. We could get 300 or 600 in the first 24 to 48 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Magsig stressed this doesn\u2019t turn this into a \u201ctheory of war game\u201d because of the live data collected in previous efforts accurately represent capability in a simulated environment through the Joint Systems Integration Laboratory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAn adversary like Russia or China is going to come at you with a multitude of threats, ballistic missiles, hypersonic missiles, cruise missiles, air breathing threats, and we\u2019ve got to see where the joint force can both thwart the attack across multiple different attack vectors,\u201d he said, \u201cand when you look at what that means, we have to be able to take out the arrows and the archer. We\u2019ve got to be able to destroy those, but then effectively counter attack against the archers that are getting prepared to fire the next salvo.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scale is \u201cgoing to stretch the level of our networks,\u201d Magsig said. Data will pass from WSMR to JBLM to Fort Bragg to Virginia and all the way to the West Coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to be using simulation to stimulate our mission command systems and our weapon systems, passing fire control quality data across the network and then use that to engage in both offensive and defensive fires across the joint force,\u201d he described.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New focus, new tech<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

While the exercise will focus on some use cases from the past year \u2013 like integrated air and missile defense and joint fires \u2013 it will also add at least one: contested logistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In PC21, the service experimented with prognostic and preventive maintenance sensors, \u201cbasically putting sensors on a range of vehicles and collecting that data, amalgamating it, aggregating the data and then seeing how we can get ahead of maintenance and where that data can allow us to save costs on maintenance and also raise our operational readiness levels,\u201d Magsig said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A surrogate of the mine-resistant, ambush-protected next-generation combat vehicle conducts a live-fire exercise during the Project Convergence capstone event at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz. (Spc. Carlos Cuebas Fantauzzi\/U.S. Army)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This year, the Army is trying to do the same across many more classes of supplies, such as fuel and ammunition. The Army is working to create a dashboard for commanders that show when supplies are running low and when they will run out or when parts require maintenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur operational commanders, our division and corps commanders are screaming for this capability,\u201d Magsig said. \u201cThat\u2019s a big effort and so if we eat half that cookie, I\u2019ll be impressed and proud.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contested logistics will be evaluated in both scenarios, Magsig noted. San Clemente Island will be used to test some of the capability and could include the Army\u2019s new Maneuver Support Vessel-Light, a watercraft with flexibility to be used to transport troops and for fire support and supply delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event will also include some Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office technologies, including offensive drone swarm capability and possibly the Mid-Range Capability missile expected to be fielded in 2023 and tech from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall the combined joint force wants to learn how to deal with large-scale complex attacks, how it can employ both lethal and non-lethal effects and \u201cwhere our systems fail to overmatch our adversaries,\u201d Magsig said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a number X out there where our systems, our networks, will break down passing that much data; our systems, our radars get overloaded with tracks and there\u2019s not enough missiles in our arsenals or depth of our magazines is insufficient or a combination of those things that will lead us to fail,\u201d Magsig said. \u201cAnd we want to know where we\u2019re going to fail in Project Convergence and not on the day that our adversary decides to attack.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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