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Army Network CFT Details Objectives For This Fall’s Project Convergence Demonstration

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, August 11th, 2020

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Army Network CFT Details Objectives For This Fall’s Project Convergence Demonstration

The Army’s tactical network modernization team will test range extension for connectivity and the potential for leveraging the network for artificial intelligence-enabled target recognition at the service’s Project Convergence demonstration this fall. Project Convergence is the Army’s first event this fall to bring together the Army’s modernization-focused Cross Functional Teams (CFT) to understand how its future platforms, from long-range fires to air and missile defense assets, could form a new “sensor-to-shooter” network. “There will be participation from multiple cross-functional teams.…

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