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WASHINGTON \u2014 The Army <\/b>is about to kick off a major part of its U.S.-based experimentation event known as Project Convergence<\/a>, <\/b>and service leaders are considering growing the annual campaign overseas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first Project Convergence took place in late summer and early fall 2020 at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona. A year later, what was a solely Army exercise is now joint, and its operations are spread across the country, from Washington state to North Carolina and down to the southwest desert at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico and at Yuma Proving Ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exercise is culminating<\/a> \u2014 beginning this month and ending in early November \u2014 in a series of scenarios, dubbed vignettes. They\u2019ll test multiple capabilities, including air defense, air assault and ground maneuver, with the goal of cutting the time it takes to identify enemy targets, respond and destroy those threats through what the services call the \u201ckill chain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army is shifting its focus from counterinsurgency operations in the Middle East to an era of great power competition \u2014 one in which the United States must be prepared to operate against advanced adversaries in high-end conflicts across air, land, sea, space and cyber domains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the Army and the other services haven\u2019t yet executed the main event, Gen. Mike Murray, who leads Army Futures Command, told Defense News in an Oct. 1 interview the service already achieved Project Convergence 21\u2032s major objective: \u201ccreating an experiment that gets the joint force excited.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multinational, multidomain<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

This year, operational and experimental Army units, including the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and the first multidomain task force, or MDTF, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, will attend. The joint exercise, which is going multinational with the addition of the United Kingdom and Australia, will focus on interoperability and will feature a scenario relevant for missions in the Indo-Pacific theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s where the MDTF comes in. The group has a history of participating in Pacific-focused operations and regional training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unit type was formed to test the Army\u2019s multi-domain operations war-fighting concept, which will soon become doctrine. The second MDTF was activated in Europe last month, and the Pacific theater will eventually get two of the units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scenarios in Project Convergence 21 are designed to address operational needs across combatant commands, Murray said, but the way the exercise is spread out across the country is specifically meant to represent the vast area of the Indo-Pacific theater and address latencies created by those great distances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gen. Charles Flynn, the head of U.S Army Pacific Command, told Defense News in a Sept. 30 interview he would like to eventually see part of Project Convergence take place in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The autonomous system Origin prepares for a practice run during the Project Convergence capstone event at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., in 2020. (Spc. Carlos Cuebas Fantauzzi\/U.S. Army)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important to do things at Yuma and White Sands and some other locations back in the continental United States, but those locations don\u2019t look anything like Southeast Asia and archipelago environments or mountains, high altitude, extreme cold weather, tropics, jungle, expansive waterways, immature road networks, [information technology] backbones,\u201d Flynn said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think that being able to take Project Convergence and get that out into the region here affords us an opportunity to have exponential learning as we develop this concept and capabilities and identify our gaps and then address those gaps,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the advantage of Yuma and White Sands is their established test infrastructure, Murray said. \u201cOne of the most important things we\u2019ll do during [Project Convergence] is data collection,\u201d he explained, as well as monitoring how data flows across the network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A controlled setting allows the Army to jam its own GPS and communications, for example. During the exercise, this will take place every Friday to challenge the system, Murray said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs long as the focus is technology, it makes it hard to move from some place where you can get access to those types of resources,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multi-advantage<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

To up the ante for Project Convergence, Army leadership might execute \u201ca hub and spoke concept,\u201d where the hub of the exercise is in the United States, but technology is brought to both the European and Indo-Pacific theaters as spokes so the U.S. military can expand its work with allies and partners, Murray said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat gives us some advantages,\u201d he said. \u201cThe advantage we\u2019ve got in Europe is there are organizations set up there that have specific security classifications.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. Army Europe\u2019s goal for the Defender series in 2022 is to focus on modernization efforts and implementation in the U.S. through various combat training center rotations and Project Convergence, according to an Army statement sent to Defense News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army in 2020 established the Defender series of exercises, a division-sized event in Europe and another in the Pacific, to put the service\u2019s power projection capabilities to the test. The plan was to make each theater\u2019s exercise an annual event, but the service has had to scale back its plans each year due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pacific is more challenging because it lacks a NATO-type establishment. Instead, the U.S. tends to work on a bilateral level with each regional ally and partner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you bring a bunch of partners together, you\u2019re almost automatically driven to the unclassified level, which is really hard with some of the technologies we\u2019re talking about,\u201d Murray said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army already has experience sending Army Futures Command technology abroad. For example, it delivered tech to experiment with position, navigation and timing capabilities as part of Dynamic Front in Europe the last two years. And the Army Warfighting Assessment, which turned into the Joint Warfighting Assessment in 2018, went to Europe that year. In 2021, the assessment took place in the Pacific theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll see in \u201823 and beyond,\u201d Murray said. \u201cThis is about technology, but it\u2019s also about how we fight, how we structure ourselves, and so I do see utility in going to a theater, especially if we can embed in an existing [combatant command] exercise.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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