{"id":20790,"date":"2021-11-10T15:22:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T15:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2021\/11\/10\/at-second-project-convergence-us-army-experiments-with-joint-operations-in-the-arizona-desert\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:09:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:09:51","slug":"at-second-project-convergence-us-army-experiments-with-joint-operations-in-the-arizona-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/battlefield-tech\/it-networks-battlefield-tech\/2021\/11\/10\/at-second-project-convergence-us-army-experiments-with-joint-operations-in-the-arizona-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"At second Project Convergence, US Army experiments with joint operations in the Arizona desert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz. \u2014 For the last several weeks, the U.S. Army has been experimenting with its newest, most cutting-edge technologies at Yuma Proving Ground as part of its second annual Project Convergence event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Located just north of Yuma, a quiet little city on the border of Mexico and California, the base isn\u2019t exactly the most welcoming environment. It\u2019s surrounded by sparse vegetation, dry craggy earth and jagged crops of mountains \u2014 beautiful, but inhospitable. While the mornings are cool in November, the rising desert sun will quickly bring the temperature up into the eighties. In the summer, it will easily rise to over one hundred degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the harsh environment where the Army wants to test its technology \u2014 to see what breaks and what is rugged and reliable enough to deploy with its soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe idea is the sooner we can bring things out here, get them in the dirt, get them in soldiers\u2019 hands, the sooner we can learn and inform those concepts and we can inform those requirements\u2019 documents,\u201d Col. Andre\u2019 Abadie, special advisor to the deputy commanding general and co-lead for Army Futures Command\u2019s Project Convergence Operational Planning Team told reporters gathered at Yuma Proving Ground. \u201cThe idea is to have them out here, have them demonstrated, and then our acquisitions partners can help pull them across that infamous valley of death.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project Convergence kicked off in 2020<\/a> as the Army\u2019s so-called \u201ccampaign of learning.\u201d Project Convergence is a scaled up demonstration of the emerging technologies \u2014 experimental networks, artificial intelligence \u2014 Army officials say they need to win on the battlefield in the not too distant year of 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\t