The U.S. Army wrapped up the first part of the 2025 Project Convergence, the service’s warfighting experiment, and is now prepping for the next phase to be conducted in the western Pacific. Lt. Gen. David Hodne, director of the Futures and Concepts Center at Army Futures Command, said at a recent event that the next portion of Project Convergence will expand to the Philippines, Japan, Tahiti and Australia.
The multinational events aim to develop advanced capabilities for the Department of Defense’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control concept. According to Hodne, Project Convergence is a series of experiments that will conclude in May.
Part A of Project Convergence took place in the National Training Center at Fort Irwin in California in March. About 6,000 military personnel participated in the event to field new technologies.
Why Is Project Convergence Going to the Pacific?
Part B of Project Convergence will test capabilities across geographical distances, something that troops cannot do at Fort Irwin.
“There won’t be any walking across the street from Tahiti to the Philippines,” the official explained. “It will be assured data, assured communications with tactical, operational, strategic distances. If we can converge that data-centric command and control from the combatant command to the corps and the corps to the squad, we can converge that capability from the squad all the way to the combatant command and we can be far more effective.”
Brig. Gen. Zachary Miller, commander of the Army’s Joint Modernization Command, said JADC2 is designed to work in the Pacific theater. Among the challenges the Army and other military services will try to address in the experimentation is joint communications.
Miller pointed out that the services must be able to put their sensors together to detect threats.
What Is Next for Project Convergence?
Hodne revealed that a third component of Project Convergence is the Army’s Title 10 wargame called Future Studies Program, or FSP.
The Army plans to further evolve Project Convergence in 2026. According to Hodne, the next iteration of the experimentation series will bring together other Army experiments such as the Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiment.
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