Technical Architecture Will Build the Future of Warfare The faster enemy targets can be seen and assessed, the faster an attacking force can prevail in combat. The Army’s “Project Convergence,” the Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) and the Navy’s Project Overmatch are the names each service gives to an artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomy-enabled network of interwoven “meshed” nodes operating within a broad multi-domain warfare environment. The defining concept or strategic impetus for each of these respective efforts is clear and fundamental current technological modernization efforts, as it is based upon the premise than any combat platform or “node,” whether it be a fighter jet, tank, ground control station or surface ship, can operate not only as its own combat-capable “entity” but also as a critical surveillance and warfare information “node” able to gather, process, organize and transmit time-sensitive data across a large force in real-time. For example, instead of having to send images through a one-to-one video feed into a ground control center, a forward-operating surveillance drone could find crucial enemy targets, analyze a host of otherwise disconnected yet relevant variables, and send new time-sensitive intelligence information to multiple locations across the force in seconds.