The Pentagon spoke about the implementation of the Convergence project on the tactics of using and controlling troops on the battlefield

The US Army intends to launch the next round of a pilot campaign, known as Project Convergence, in the spring of 2024. This was announced in one of his last press interviews by the deputy head of the project.

According to the standard schedule, this event was to take place this fall. However, they decided to move the dates. The 2024 version is expected to be expanded to include the combined forces of coalition partners.

Project Convergence launched in 2020 at the Yuma Test Site, Arizona, as a way for the Army to assess the progress of its overall troop modernization efforts and tactics for using and controlling them on the battlefield. The following year, 2021, the event became collaborative as the services attempted to connect sensors and fighters for a joint capability to detect, track and eliminate threats on this very battlefield.

The latest iteration, as the Pentagon puts it, in the fall of 2022, expanded the scope of experiments and added British and Australian armies to the project to improve data exchange. British and Australian soldiers were introduced into a single army system, which allows the command to track the entire array of movements within a particular operation.

According to Lieutenant General Scott McKean, who is also director of the Army Advanced Concepts Center, this time the coalition partners plan to participate with their own combined forces in addition.

In a Feb. 3 interview, he said the service was extending the lead time on the project to give the joint force time to verify sightings that took place in late October and early November and prepare for more complex integration between US forces and participating international partners. .

Even if the technology that was successful in Project Convergence doesn't pay off in exercises, McKean said, the military could use it again in experiments. The next Project Convergence is expected to focus on experimentation at the strategic level, beyond the tactical level discussed earlier, and will include dealing with more complex threats.

The Pentagon spokesman stressed that Project Convergence is no longer just a military undertaking, even though it is led by the military. Efforts, he says, are becoming more collaborative with other services.

Comments

[The popuas]

Everything new is introduced, tried, something is abandoned, something is left! They are moving forward ... And you will see our teachings ... everything is like half a hundred years ago! It's sad like...

[Smoker]

Quote: Popuas

Everything new is introduced, tried, something is abandoned, something is left! They are moving forward ... And you will see our teachings ... everything is like half a hundred years ago! It's sad like...

The budgets of the military are a little different ...

but I didn’t understand the vidos for the article ... music and pictures of the military - and the signature project conventions

[I_Kov]

di erste colonne marshirt, di tsweite colonne marshirt

[Lech from Android.]

In the NVO, the most dangerous for us was the technical intelligence of the United States.
The Americans monitor any movement of our troops in real time, all data is automated in the combat control system and used to strike at our troops.
So far, there is nothing to oppose this.
Technically, we are still lagging behind in intelligence.

[Petr_Koldunov]

Quote: Lech from Android.

So far, there is nothing to oppose this.
Technically, we are still lagging behind in intelligence.

There is one interesting point here. Americans can only be swagger like that in Ukraine. It sounds like a paradox... but if, God forbid, there is a direct clash, then the Americans will no longer receive such advantages. Simply because now Russia is afraid of hitting American satellites, supply chains and destroying enemy resources during loading / unloading (as this happens on NATO territory).
In the event of a direct collision, Russia will destroy all American military satellites, since there are means for an orbital attack ... and then the American army becomes immobile. Since over the many years of the Internet and satellite communications, they have forgotten how to control themselves with voice and gestures, and receive intelligence from live reconnaissance groups operating in the rear :))

[PROXOR]

Nevertheless, the interactive display of information will clearly improve the awareness of commanders on the battlefield. Now the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are simply suffering from a HUGE burden called obtaining permission to strike. Valuable seconds and even minutes pass. Wagenar work independently, without the approval of headquarters and the like. Efficiency as they say on the FACE.
As for air reconnaissance assets, the development of drones gives a SEA of opportunities for sabotage. Up to the attack on UAVs and AWACS aircraft. The UAV got into the turbine of an aircraft or UAV, and at best it is an emergency board, at worst - charred remains on the ground. Satellite reconnaissance does not provide such a complete picture as aerial reconnaissance. We need political will.

[Ka-52]

all data is automated in the battle management system and used to deliver strikes against our troops.

did you come up with it yourself? Well, in order to track ALL the movements of our troops, the Americans need to increase their reconnaissance group by 10 times. In addition, yes, the Americans can receive intelligence, systematize it, even give out data on targets. But since the Armed Forces of Ukraine do not have an automated command and control system, and even more so it is not integrated into that of the American one, there can be no talk of any "automatic" and even more so "in real time".

[Lech from Android.]

Figured it out myself...
where did you get the figure 10 times ... why not 20, 100 times.
I didn’t say a word about the intelligence of the Armed Forces of Ukraine ... again it brings you.

[Ka-52]

Everything new is introduced, tried, something is abandoned, something is left! They are moving forward ... And you will see our teachings ... everything is like half a hundred years ago! It's sad like...

don't whine ahead of time. The Americans, too, are not all thankful to God. They constantly introduce interaction technologies on the battlefield, but if you look at the statistics, then they bear their main losses precisely from the lack of this very interaction. There is a mess for them and for us. It’s just that they have a beautiful, pomaded mess, not like ours - bast shoes

[The popuas]

I don’t whine ... it’s just that you write here for the pluses what people want to see, but in fact the equipment of the armies is different! Elementary communication between departments ... yes, a lot of things ..! CBO clearly showed what is going on in our army! So you don’t have pink ponies around ...

[Ka-52]

if I would write for plus signs, then now I would howl with you in chorus, how everything was lost with us. And where did you see my "pink ponies"? I actually wrote about the state of American training. You are like a market woman - since there are no arguments on the merits, so let's drag everything in a row.

[Lord]

Yes, they don’t clean trunks with bricks¡!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ¡!!!!!!!

[Bingo]

Purely theoretically, this should help in combat with an enemy not equipped with equipment. That is, against the partisans. The only trouble is that the mattresses themselves took pictures from their radio intelligence satellite of their own battalion during the exercises. Even now it glows in all ranges, even individual pieces of equipment and groups of soldiers are clearly visible. KP generally shines like a chandelier, i.e. targeting is amazing. And this is a big minus.

[spirit]

Do not show this to Parquetny and our General Staff. They cannot recover from the "shock" of copters in a year, it turns out there are such "alien technologies." And here it is! get a heart attack.

[Ka-52]

Do not show this to the Parquet and our General Staff. They cannot recover from the "shock" of the copters in a year

taking into account the fact that drones and a platoon of UAVs began to appear in the Russian troops 7 years ago, then a strange shock is obtained - in advance)) in fact, the problems of many technologies are the lack of an implementation mechanism. For example, at some point they realized that UAVs were needed. They ordered their production, created a structure in the composition of teams. And that's it .... but they should have prescribed the use of UAVs in textbooks on tactics. It is not enough to have, you need to know where and how to apply. How many different VVKUs have released young officers in 7 years? And the specialized academies of the Armed Forces? And the academy of the General Staff? Were they familiar with this method of reconnaissance and target designation? Judging by the beginning of the SVO - no from the word at all.

[single-n]

Phew. Reassured. So we will pass it on to ours at the front - everything will be in another 20-30 years and UAVs and operators will appear. And there you look and what tactics we will come up with. You just wait.
That's just a question. And WHEN did Azerbaijan start arming UAVs? And the APU? Maybe even under the kings?

[Sarboz]

I'm embarrassed to ask, is your Parquetny Zaluzhny or Lloydushka Austin himself? And where is your general staff, in Kyiv, Ramstein, or right behind a puddle?