Targeting time shrinks from minutes to seconds in Army experiment
The latest edition of Project Convergence streamlines processes and adds new tech.
SAM SKOVE | MARCH 7, 2024 11:21 AM ET
ARMY JADC2 C4ISR
CAMP PENDLETON, California—Soldiers found targets in a tiny fraction of the normal time by streamlining procedures and speeding up data processing during a recent experiment, Army officials said Tuesday.
The Army is seeing a “two orders of magnitude” increase in the speed at which data is passed to weapons crews since the first Project Convergence, said Alex Miller, a senior science and technical advisor to Army Chief of Staff Randy George. In certain cases, processes that previously took minutes took just seconds, Miller said during a media day for this year's Project Convergence, one of the service’s marquee technology-testing events.
Miller said the success was due in part to simplifying procedures.
“A lot of it was just making sure we didn’t over-classify things,” allowing soldiers to send information to foreign partners and other services without routing data through a human, he said.
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