Tech Convergence: Army Expands Transformation Evaluation Event

FORT IRWIN, Calif. – As the Army continues its efforts to drive military transformation, the service conducted its capstone event, Project Convergence-C… FORT IRWIN, Calif. – As the Army continues its efforts to drive military transformation, the service conducted its capstone event, Project Convergence-Capstone 6, as a part of its Project Convergence persistent experimentation campaign. The effort provided the military with an opportunity to demonstrate and assess emerging technologies to inform future warfighting capabilities. Project Convergence-Capstone6, or PC-C6, conducted July 20–29 at Fort Irwin, California, brought together thousands of attendees across the joint force, allies and industry participants in what became the largest iteration of the experiment to date. As the Army’s premier modernization event, Project Convergence serves as a culminating experimentation venue.

It provides joint and multinational participants with the scope and scale needed to incorporate future technologies into a live and simulated environment and experiment with future warfighting concepts and formations to meet operational and tactical objectives. The central focus of PC-C6 was continued validation of Next-Generation Command and Control, or Next-Gen C2, a comprehensive capability that replaces legacy, fragmented Army mission command systems with an open and extensible set of warfighting applications and artificial intelligence tools, a data integration layer and more resilient communications. The Next-Gen C2 architecture aims to provide integrated data across warfighting functions, increasing