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Our Bureau 2927 Project Hydra In a first, the U.S. Air Force’s F-35 and F-22 stealth jets were able to exchange data freely in flight via a U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane. Today, Lockheed Martin said the company along with the Air Force and the Missile Defense Agency managed to link a U-2, five F-35s and an F-22 in air and provided real-time 5th Generation data to operators on the ground. Named Project Hydra, the latest flight test leveraged an Open Systems Gateway (OSG) payload aboard the U-2 t...

Army approves rapid development of Tactical Space Layer 3 hours ago The Army continues to make progress in utilizing satellite imagery for beyond-line-of-sight targeting. (Getty Images) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army recently approved rapid experimentation and prototyping to develop a new Tactical Space Layer that will enable the service to use overhead satellite imagery for beyond-line-of-sight targets. The Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing/Space Cross-Functional Team is leading t...

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China Features Heavily in the Army’s Next Big Emerging Tech Experiment The Army’s connect-everything experiment is about to get much bigger, and looks across the Pacific. The Army will expand its emerging technology experiment this fall, bringing in more operators, more stealth aircraft, Navy standard missiles and new AI tools, and will focus heavily on defeating a high-tech adversary with a striking resemblance to China.  The Army will hold its second Project Convergence experime...

WASHINGTON: The Army’s AI-driven battle networks are taking a world tour of live-fire wargames. Having wrapped up an exercise in Washington State last month with the Army’s experimental Multi-Domain Task Force, the AI wargames will head to Europe in May and to the Pacific in July, before returning to the US for the climactic Project Convergence exercises in the fall. The goal of these wargames: stress-test AI algorithms and network connections in conditions close to combat as real soldiers ...

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 23, 2021 at 11:01 AM Gen. Mike Murray WASHINGTON: “My entire career, I’ve stood around a mapboard and the lawyer’s always right there,” said Gen. Mike Murray, who commanded troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. But in a highly automated future war of long-range missiles, swarming robots, and sensor jamming, warned the head of Army Futures Command, “you’re not going to have 30 seconds to stand around a mapboard and make those decisions.” “Back w...

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 20, 2021 at 6:01 AM Technicians work with a robot’s control system during last fall’s Project Convergence wargames. WASHINGTON: Hundreds of scientists, engineers, and support staff at nine locations worked feverishly earlier this month testing dozens of technologies ahead of this fall’s joint Project Convergence wargames. The hub for the event, Communications Exercise (COMEX) 2, was a new facility at the Army’s Aberdeen, Md. C5ISR Center, the Joi...

Army experiments aim to provide soldiers with better grenades, AI, resupply, machine guns and more 2 hours ago Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiments, an annual event, evaluates new technology that could benefit soldiers at the company level and below. (Army) The Army’s most recent annual series of experiments for soldiers at the tactical level showcase new tools for warfighting that could benefit troops at the company level and below. This year the Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiment ...

7 With convergence of Joint effects being one of the main goals of Project Convergence 21, joint interoperability was the main order of business during the second of four communications exercises planned in the lead-up to PC21. The communications exercise, which took place from April 5-15 at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s, or DEVCOM, Joint System Integration Lab on Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, brought together nearly 60 technologies from the Join...

Project Convergence: America goes to virtual war with China ANI | Updated: Apr 16, 2021 06:26 IST Washington DC [US], April 16 (ANI): Amid the rising tensions with China, US Armys Project Convergence war games is set to hold operations in a transcontinental scenario - one meant to replicate the vast distances of the Western Pacific and the technological challenges of modern war, Asian Times reports. Project Convergence is a campaign of learning to pursue an...