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Gen. James Richardson, the deputy commanding general of U.S. Army Futures Command, said every piece of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/training-sim\/2021\/10\/11\/us-army-weighs-taking-future-project-convergence-exercises-abroad\/\">technology that\u2019s being used in Project Convergence 21<\/a>, which starts Oct. 12, was tested in a modeling and simulation environment to make sure it works as an individual system, but it was also modeled and simulated as part of a network as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army\u2019s big lesson from PC20, he said, was that it\u2019s harder to network things together than the service realized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnd if you wait until you get into the dirt at 122 degrees, it\u2019s too late,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army created a Joint Systems Integration Laboratory to connect all its science and technology labs and battle labs. Last month, the service spent three weeks at Aberdeen Proving Grounds hosting a modeling and simulation event that participants could tap into from other labs and begin to integrate their technologies into the network. The event went as far as running the actual \u201cuse cases,\u201d or operational scenarios, that will be run live at PC21 in the field, and \u201cit paid huge dividends,\u201d Richardson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t know what we would have done if we had not taken all the 110 technologies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/training-sim\/2021\/09\/07\/at-next-project-convergence-7-scenarios-will-test-american-tech-against-adversaries\/\">seven use cases<\/a>, run them in this laboratory,\u201d the general said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAll of our science and technology should be in those labs, all of our [program managers] and programs should be in the labs, the [life cycle management commands] with their post-production software should be in those labs \u2014 let\u2019s run everything in the lab to learn before we actually go and buy or go into the field,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. Navy Cmdr. 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