The Army pulled the experiment together quickly, at relatively modest cost, and they came away with tangible insights.īut vastly increasing the size, cost, participants and the accompanying attention are not traditional hallmarks of a successful military experimentation program. If that were not enough, the Army has announced that Project Convergence will serve as its testbed for the high priority effort to connect with the Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System-a major step toward the goal of Combined Joint All-Domain Command Control (JADC2), DOD’s “interconnected infrastructure.”īy all indications, praise for Project Convergence is warranted.
The year after that, it plans to add new organizations such as the Multi-Domain Task Force, Brigade Combat Teams, and Allied and Partner Mission Command elements.
The Army has already promised to add live troops acting as an enemy opposing force, electronic warfare to jam comms networks, and shots of the new Precision Strike Missile to next year’s Project Convergence. Ross Coffman quickly issued a statement saying, “We’ve got to scale this at the joint level… the Air Force, the Marines and the Navy have all committed to Project Convergence ’21… the United Kingdom has agreed to participate and Australia is a maybe.” Army conference, then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper congratulated the Army on the experiment and pledged to make future iterations of the project bigger and better-bringing in other services and countries.