{"id":12391,"date":"2022-02-23T20:53:08","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T20:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2022\/02\/23\/project-convergence-reinforces-the-need-for-shared-standards-across-the-services\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:51:27","slug":"project-convergence-reinforces-the-need-for-shared-standards-across-the-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/battlefield-tech\/it-networks-battlefield-tech\/2022\/02\/23\/project-convergence-reinforces-the-need-for-shared-standards-across-the-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Convergence reinforces the need for shared standards across the services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Months after the U.S. Army completed its largest networking and technology experiment in Yuma, Arizona, Army Futures Command officials say the lessons learned from the event underscore the value of aligning data and network standards across the joint force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 110 pieces of cutting-edge tech were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/it-networks\/2021\/11\/10\/at-second-project-convergence-us-army-experiments-with-joint-operations-in-the-arizona-desert\/\" target=\"_blank\">tested and studied<\/a> last year at Project Convergence 2021, producing useful information and other insights to be applied in the near future. The process further \u201creinforced the importance of standardizing approaches and communications to maximize the efficiency of Joint operations,\u201d according to a recap <a href=\"https:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/254182\/armys_project_convergence_emphasizes_importance_of_synced_technologies\" target=\"_blank\">shared by the command<\/a> Feb. 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials made similar points last week during a conversation at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank. Both Lt. Gen. James Richardson, the acting commanding general at Army Futures Command, and Col. Toby Magsig, the Army\u2019s deputy exercise director for Project Convergence, on Feb. 16 referenced data as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csis.org\/events\/project-convergence-experiment-multidomain-operations\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cthe new ammunition,\u201d<\/a> highlighting its worth as well as its potentially devastating applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reducing or eliminating the many obstacles data must traverse as it flows from team to team, service to service, is critical to developing a military capable of besting the toughest opponents, they suggested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWithout access to and the ability to share, parse, understand and recode data, we\u2019re going to be sort of left fighting how we did in the \u201880s and \u201890s,\u201d said Magsig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because the fight of the future is going to be so different to that of today, reforms must be made, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa\/2021\/10\/12\/army-using-simulations-to-work-out-networking-kinks-ahead-of-project-convergence-21\/\" target=\"_blank\">Richardson said<\/a>. Parochial habits need breaking. New standards need setting. Stovepipes need disassembling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe don\u2019t want a translator anymore, or a cross-domain solution. Going forward, we want to be connected from a standards and a data perspective and a message format perspective,\u201d Richardson said. \u201cIt sounds simple, but that was the \u2018aha moment.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The quick passing of information and decision-making between once-incompatible battlefield players \u2014 a concept known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/opinion\/2022\/02\/21\/cross-domain-technologies-are-the-key-to-jadc2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joint All-Domain Command and Control<\/a> \u2014 has been a Department of Defense goal for some time now, with each service taking their own approach to implementing it. Project Convergence is the Army\u2019s contribution to JADC2. Likewise, the Navy has Project Overmatch, and the Air Force has the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/it-networks\/2022\/02\/15\/oracle-gets-go-ahead-to-host-top-secret-air-force-data\/\" target=\"_blank\">Advanced Battle Management System<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Project Convergence 2022 will involve U.S. allies, a first for the so-called \u201ccampaign of learning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen you look forward to PC \u201822, it\u2019s not just the U.S. as a joint force. It\u2019s our combined joint force,\u201d Magsig said. \u201cSo, taking our closest allies and partners, being able to pass data seamlessly, being able to have that trust in the data that we pass so that you know an Australian shooter might feel very comfortable off of a British sensor or a Canadian C2 network.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next iteration of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/it-networks\/2021\/12\/08\/five-things-the-army-learned-about-its-network-at-project-convergence-21\/\" target=\"_blank\">Project Convergence<\/a> is expected this fall. 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