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Air threats can simultaneously attack from all directions so the radars that track them must see everywhere

Air threats can simultaneously attack from all directions so the radars that track them must see everywhere
Air threats can simultaneously attack from all directions so the radars that track them must see everywhere

The Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor is designed to detect threats from 360-degrees, ranging from UAS, 5th-generation fighters, helicopters, cruise missiles, and ballistic and non-ballistic missiles.

US Army successfully tests Iron Dome at White Sands Missile Range

US Army successfully tests Iron Dome at White Sands Missile Range
US Army successfully tests Iron Dome at White Sands Missile Range

The Israeli-made system successfully knocked down cruise missile threats during the testing run by the US Army.

Joint Force Vs. China: Project Convergence 21

Joint Force Vs. China: Project Convergence 21
Joint Force Vs. China: Project Convergence 21

“This is a journey to see what’s possible, what can we do with today’s technologies, for a relatively minor cost,” Gen. John Murray told us. “Project Convergence ’20 cost us about the same thing as one Combat Training Center rotation” — $23 million.

Iron Dome Heads For Key US Integration Test

Iron Dome Heads For Key US Integration Test
Iron Dome Heads For Key US Integration Test

With the second battery now bound for the US, the Israeli-made missile defense system must prove it works with American command networks. “We have a very detailed plan to do the integration,” Rafael’s Pini Yungman told me.

Exclusive: J6 Says JADC2 Is A Strategy; Service Posture Reviews Coming

Exclusive: J6 Says JADC2 Is A Strategy; Service Posture Reviews Coming
Exclusive: J6 Says JADC2 Is A Strategy; Service Posture Reviews Coming

The upcoming JADC2 Posture Review “will show the department exactly where we are deficient in executing our mission or missions,” Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall says.

Project Convergence: Its Success Could Draw Army Astray

Project Convergence: Its Success Could Draw Army Astray
Project Convergence: Its Success Could Draw Army Astray

While Project Convergence’s first big test, the Army’s “experiment at scale for a combined arms operations,” was deemed a great success, the service must resist the urge to scale-up so rapidly that the events lose their value as experiments or become a fat target for budget cutters. The convergence tests, linking weapons, sensors, systems and…

Network, GPS Will Be Jammed In Project Convergence 2021

Network, GPS Will Be Jammed In Project Convergence 2021
Network, GPS Will Be Jammed In Project Convergence 2021

In this fall’s Project Convergence exercises, it took a heroic effort just to get the network to work at all. Next year, the Army wants the network to function in the face of electronic attack.

LRPF: Army Missiles, Cannon Face Big Tests In ’21

LRPF: Army Missiles, Cannon Face Big Tests In ’21
LRPF: Army Missiles, Cannon Face Big Tests In ’21

Weapons from hypersonics to howitzers have key deadlines to meet next year to keep to the Army’s ambitious timeline, Lt. Gen. Neil Thurgood and Brig. Gen. John Rafferty tell Breaking Defense.

Army Robots Hunt Tanks In Project Convergence

Army Robots Hunt Tanks In Project Convergence
Army Robots Hunt Tanks In Project Convergence

The pair of unmanned scout vehicles had enough AI smarts aboard to navigate cross-country, identify “enemy” forces, and open fire – but a human still decides whether to shoot.

Longer-Range Missiles & More AI: Project Convergence 2021

Longer-Range Missiles & More AI: Project Convergence 2021
Longer-Range Missiles & More AI: Project Convergence 2021

Next fall, the Army aims to test a new artificial intelligence for artillery and fire the prototype PrSM missile to its full 300-plus-mile range — once they find a venue that’s big enough.

Marine F-35s Share Targeting Data With Army: Project Convergence

Marine F-35s Share Targeting Data With Army: Project Convergence
Marine F-35s Share Targeting Data With Army: Project Convergence

The Army’s future-warfare exercise overcame a host of technical glitches to link systems ranging from NRO and NGA spy satellites to Marine Corps fighter jets.

Pushing Data ‘From Space To Mud’: Project Convergence

Pushing Data ‘From Space To Mud’: Project Convergence
Pushing Data ‘From Space To Mud’: Project Convergence

“I have never in my life seen the cooperation between the agencies…the services…[and] across the Army” that’s happening in this fall’s wargames, Army space expert Willie Nelson told me.

‘Improvised Mode’: The Army Network Evolves In Project Convergence

‘Improvised Mode’: The Army Network Evolves In Project Convergence
‘Improvised Mode’: The Army Network Evolves In Project Convergence

How do you get targeting data from satellite to howitzer in less than 20 seconds, on a tactical network that was never designed to do that? You improvise, Maj. Gen. Peter Gallagher told me.

A Slew To A Kill: Project Convergence

A Slew To A Kill: Project Convergence
A Slew To A Kill: Project Convergence

Instead of a single centralized Skynet trying to mastermind (or micromanage) operations, the Army is looking at a federation of more specialized, less ambitious AIs, each assisting humans in different ways.