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The Army wants to be able to freely send data back and forth from its legacy and business systems to the tactical edge. Key to doing that is its strategy to unify tactical and enterprise networks and creating a common "data fabric." But will it work?

The Army wants to be able to freely send data back and forth from its legacy and business systems to the tactical edge. Key to doing that is its strategy to unify tactical and enterprise networks and creating a common "data fabric." But will it work?

"You're not going to see the breakthroughs if every bit of risk is baked out of everything we do from the very beginning. We'll never be able to keep up with the pace of change," Murray said.

This week's test exceeded the 499km threshold the Army had initially set for PrSM.

Wednesday's test of the Precision Strike Missile will attempt to go 499 km.

"The Army in the past has always executed traditional IT in a very decentralized way — we let every command do their own thing," Army CIO Raj Iyer said. "Now, if you look at the requirements for multi-domain operations, that model doesn't work anymore."

"Unfortunately, some of the Army's signature modernization efforts, as spectacular as they are, don't work with the other signature modernization efforts," said Ed Mornston, G2 at Army Futures Command.

New labs to test interconnections are the key to joint all-domain command and control.

AUSA: As the Army puts scores of cutting-edge technologies and capabilities through the ringer at its Project Convergence experiment the deserts of Arizona over the next four weeks, top Army officials are watching closely to see what survives and to get it into the hands of soldiers “as quickly as possible.” “If it works, we’re going to transition quickly,” Lt. Gen. James Richardson, deputy commander of Army Futures Command and Project Convergence director, told the...

Heidi Shyu, the Pentagon's top R&D official, is seeking funding in FY22 to start a new round of experiments in FY23.