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Army verifies info-sharing abilities with forces joining Project Convergence 22

The U.S. Army said a communications test known as COMMEX 1B was a success, replicating and informing the scale and scenarios of Project Convergence in far-flung laboratory and field settings.
Army aviation exercise focuses on communicating with allies

The Army and several international partners made headway to achieve battlefield interoperability at EDGE 22 at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, but there is still plenty of work to be done to seamlessly tie allies and partners together in operations.
Project Convergence 22 aims to have best-positioned force shoot first

“We’re never going to fight as just a joint organization,” Army Brig. Gen. Jeth Rey, the director of the Network Cross-Functional Team, said this week. “We’re going to always have our coalition partners.”

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Project Convergence 2022 will focus on both Indo-Pacific and European scenarios

And international participation is expected as the U.S. Army prepares to fight with future capabilities at a large scale.
Lockheed eyes Project Convergence after successful 5G expedition

“Our battle space is all connected,” said David Rohall with Lockheed Martin. “No longer just does a soldier talk to the soldier next to him, but the soldier is talking to the airmen who may be flying above.”
US Army to demo offensive drone swarms in next Project Convergence

BlueHalo will provide a “hive” of drones that will demonstrate offensive swarming capability for the U.S. Army over the next several years.
At Project Convergence, Army’s new battle command system demonstrated expanded capability

Here’s how the Army’s Integrated Battle Command System performed at Project Convergence 2021.
The US Army sees a future of robots and AI. But what if budget cuts and leadership changes get in the way?

Four years into Army Futures Command, experts say the effort is on track, but they warn that leadership changes, potential budget cuts and a few contracting and technological hiccups could put it at risk.
US Army officials: Service needs ‘true data fabric’

The Army lays plans for a data fabric.
General Atomics unveils new unmanned aircraft named for harsh American desert

Named for a harsh desert in the American southwest, General Atomics’ newest unmanned aircraft is designed for greater endurance, greater payload and can take off and land using short, undeveloped strips of land.
Five things the Army learned about its network at Project Convergence 21

At PC 21, the Army’s network cross-functional team director took away five lessons regarding future needs.
US Army lab cuts down risk-reduction timeline ahead of Project Convergence

The communications exercise risk-reduction leading up to a major Army exercise last year took six weeks. Now the lab is able to fulfil that same need in 10 days.
At second Project Convergence, US Army experiments with joint operations in the Arizona desert

For the second annual event in its “campaign of learning,” the Army brought in technologies and operators from the other services to test their ability to implement Joint All-Domain Command and Control.
10 things we learned from AUSA

The sheer scope of news coming out of the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual meeting may have left soldiers wondering what’s most important to them.
Army using simulations to work out networking kinks ahead of Project Convergence 21

The Army’s big lesson from Project Convergence 20 was that it’s harder to network things together than the service realized.
US Army weighs taking future Project Convergence exercises abroad

The Army is about to kick off a major part of its U.S.-based experimentation event known as Project Convergence, and service leaders are considering growing the annual campaign overseas.
Ten projects driving modern Army combat

The command works everything from new laboratory science to improving existing technologies.
US Army’s critical missile defense system will play role at Project Convergence

The service is laser-focused on bringing the Integrated Battle Command System through an initial operational test set to begin next month.
Proposed modernization increases show Army sees joint operations as ‘top priority’

The Army budget slashed billions in spending but left modernization priorities fully funded. That’s an important investment for the service’s contribution to JADC2.
What the budget reveals — and leaves unclear — about the cost of JADC2

The Pentagon’s fiscal 2022 budget offered limited clues on the amount the Defense Department wants to spend on JADC2. In the first of a four-part series, C4ISRNET looks at what insight the budget provided into the department’s JADC2 investment.
Army tests new techniques with airborne jamming pod

“This is the first time that we’ve had airborne capability like this. The big piece of it is just giving it visibility for senior leaders,” an electronic warfare official says.
US Army aviation exercise unveils unprecedented progress as service preps for future war

F-35B jets rip across the sky, a new demonstrator aircraft collects intel and performs reconnaissance, and drones are shot from the back of an all-terrain vehicle as a highly classified loitering munition blows up targets. Welcome to Edge 21.
Army labs to host testing to connect joint war-fighting systems

Aberdeen Proving Ground will add lab space for systems integration of the services’ efforts, which have been mostly separate so far.