Army's Project Convergence Continues on 10-Year Learning Curve
12/17/2021
By Stew Magnuson
YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz. — The Army brought more than 100 technologies to the desert in late fall to see if it could one day perform the Herculean task of connecting them all in a seamless AI-driven network of sensors and shooters that can fight faster than the speed of human thought.
And just to make things more difficult, the service invited the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps along to integrate some of their capabilities into a series of exercises to learn whether they can fight together in “multi-domains.”
Project Convergence is the Army’s version of the joint all-domain command and control concept that is transitioning to a new U.S. military doctrine. The Air Force calls it the Advanced Battle Management System and the Navy, Project Overmatch. Its originators call it “mosaic warfare.”
While the names are different, the overarching goal is the same: link manned and unmanned platforms through a network that passes sensor data to weapon systems, using artificial intelligence to quickly pick the most appropriate “shooters” regardless of what service owns the platform. And do that while fighting in every domain — not just land, sea and air — but space, cyberspace and the electronic spectrum.
https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2021/12/17/armys-project-convergence-continues-on-10-year-learning-curve
