Jared Serbu
It’s the fifth year for the Army’s Project Convergence, the service’s annual warfighting experiment that helps inform the Pentagon’s vision Joint All-Domain Command and Control. But this year is a little different: there’s a Part B. In addition to testing new technologies and warfighting concepts in the California desert, the Army is putting them through their paces in the Western Pacific.
The first phase of this year’s Project Convergence — and its capstone event at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. — was in many ways similar to previous iterations, with about 6,000 military personnel testing new technology with three different “vignettes” simulating military operations. That portion wrapped up in March.
But Lt. Gen. David Hodne, the director of the Futures and Concepts Center at Army Futures Command, said “Part A” of Project Convergence was just one in a series of experiments that will run through May. Next up is “Part B” in the Pacific theater.
“The difference with what we did with the joint portion of Project Convergence this year is the venue will encompass a geographical region as far west as the Philippines, as far east as Tahiti, as far north as Japan, and as far south as Australia,” he said last week at the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual conference in Huntsville, Alabama. “And then the third component of our experimentation is the Army’s Title 10 war game. It used to be called Unified Quest, now it’s called Future Studies Program. That will take us right to May 21, and the experiments we’re hosting are really important to the future readiness of our Army.”
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