“The most important thing the Army is doing”: Project Convergence’s impact will reson

[The Patriot]

The Army’s senior civilian and uniformed leaders visited U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) on September 23 to witness the capstone capabilities demonstration of the 2020 iteration of Project Convergence.Both Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy and Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville characterized the demonstration held at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground as one that will have substantial impact on the Army for decades to come. The demonstrations at YPG utilized cutting-edge equipment from five of the Army Futures Command’s cross-functional teams (CFTs), which were created to each focus on an Army modernization priority. YPG testing has actively supported six of the eight CFTs since AFC was stood up in 2018. The capstone PC capabilities demonstrations took many months of pre-planning and six weeks of active set-up, testing, and data collection, during which time in excess of 900 personnel from all across the Army came at some point to YPG.


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