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Project Convergence is a campaign of learning to evaluate how the Army will fight with modernized equipment and advanced capabilities. The event began in 2020 and has continued on as an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa\/2020\/10\/12\/at-project-convergence-the-us-army-experienced-success-and-failure-and-its-happy-about-both\/\" target=\"_blank\">annual event at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is a standalone contract with BlueHalo and it is being executed through the RCCTO\u2019s Rapid Acquisition Prototyping Project Office (RAPPO),\u201d Darbro added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BlueHalo is taking its company-wide expertise and resources to deliver \u201cartificial intelligence [and] machine learning swarm logic capabilities, communications systems and evolving technologies within an operationally driven system-of-systems\u201d to \u201cprovide the warfighter with improved mission efficiency, sensor performance and a reduction in cognitive workload,\u201d the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the RCCTO effort focuses on offensive use of a drone swarm, the military services and industry are also concentrated on countering swarms of enemy drones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army, for instance, is working on developing and integrating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2021\/06\/17\/us-army-could-soon-have-high-power-microwave-capability-to-take-out-small-drone-swarms\/\" target=\"_blank\">high-power microwave capability<\/a> to destroy small drone threats, with plans to spend more than $50 million in fiscal 2022 on the effort while also working jointly across the services to establish an enduring architecture of solutions to address the threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army is also planning to field an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/smd\/2019\/08\/07\/the-armys-indirect-fires-protection-system-is-getting-a-high-power-microwave\/\" target=\"_blank\">HPM capability to destroy drone swarms as part of its Indirect Fires Protection Capability system<\/a> that will defend fixed sites against drones, cruise missiles, rockets, artillery and mortars. The service is developing the technology with the Air Force, which is in charge of the research and development work. The Army is supplying the funding to build prototypes. Known as THOR \u2014 or Tactical High Power Operational Responder \u2014 the weapon was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/unmanned\/2021\/02\/24\/us-army-to-test-new-microwave-weapon-for-defeating-drones\/\" target=\"_blank\">demonstrated at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico,<\/a> in February 2021. The Army plans to conduct field testing as early as FY24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Industry is also moving out on solutions. 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