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The US Army intends to conduct the next round of the experimental campaign, known as the Convergence Project, in the spring of 2024. This was announced in one of his last interviews with the press by the deputy project manager.
According to the standard schedule, this event was to take place in the fall of this year. However, they decided to postpone the deadline. It is expected that the 2024 version will be expanded to include the combined forces of the coalition partners.
The Convergence project was launched in 2020 at the Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, as a way for the army to assess the progress of its efforts to modernize troops and tactics of their use and control on the battlefield. Next year, 2021, the event became a joint event, as the services tried to connect sensors and fighters to jointly detect, track and eliminate threats on this very battlefield.
The latest iteration at the moment, as expressed in the Pentagon, conducted in the fall of 2022, expanded the scope of experiments and added the British and Australian armies to the project to improve data exchange. British and Australian soldiers were introduced into a single army system that allows the command to track the entire array of movements within a certain operation.
According to Lieutenant General Scott McKean, who is also the director of the Army Advanced Concepts Center, this time the coalition partners plan to participate with their own combined forces in addition.
In an interview on February 3, he said that the service is extending the time until the final work on the project to give the joint forces time to verify the observations that took place in late October and early November, and to prepare for more complex integration between US troops and participating international partners.
According to McKean, even if the technology that has achieved success in the framework of the Convergence project does not justify itself in the exercises, the military can use it again in experiments. It is expected that the next Convergence project will focus on experiments at the strategic level, in addition to the tactical level mentioned earlier, and will include the fight against more complex threats.
The Pentagon spokesman stressed that the Convergence project is no longer just an army event, even though it is led by the armed forces. Efforts, he said, are becoming more collaborative with other services.
