What Worked, What Didn't at Army’s Second Connect-Everything Experiment
Drone-shooting helicopters, robot reconnaissance teams, and a lot more people mark Project Convergence’s second year.
By Patrick Tucker
Technology Editor
November 10, 2021 06:54 PM ET
Army
YUMA PROVING GROUND, Arizona—If last year’s edition of the U.S. Army’s massive connect-everything experiment was a proof of concept, this year’s was a far bigger effort to see just how much those data-sharing concepts might accelerate major military campaigns.
“I’ve seen exponential progress since last year,” said Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville at a media roundtable here on Tuesday. “What I’ve seen is the ability to move data. The ability to have speed, range, convergence to get the speed for decision dominance [was] significantly improved.”
In just its second year, Project Convergence has become the U.S. military’s most important experimentation effort for testing out new technologies for joint all-domain command and control, or JADC2. This year’s version featured 110 technologies, triple that of last year. It involved more personnel, including 82nd Airborne Division troops and others from Navy, Marines and Space Force and drew in participants from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to the White Sands Missile range, and yet it simulated an even larger battleground in the INDOPACOM area of responsibility.
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2021/11/armys-second-connect-everything-experiment-reveals-progress-future-hurdles/186783/
