“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.
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 05, 2021 at 2:42 PM
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on March 17, 2021 at 2:24 PM
A soldier tests the ENVG-B inight vision goggles n 2019. (Chris Bridson / Army)
WASHINGTON: The Army aims to outmaneuver and outthink its adversaries so thoroughly it achieves “decision dominance,” its generals said in unison this week. Will the new term became the latest bureaucratic buzzword or shed real light on how the future force should fight?
Gen. James McConville
The Army must move faster, McConville, declared, both as an institution developing new weapons – not in decades, but in a few years – and as a battlefield force destroying enemies – firing artillery, not minutes after spotting a target, but seconds.
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on December 29, 2020 at 3:40 PM
Soldiers check out the latest, ruggedized version of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) during trials at Fort Pickett.
WASHINGTON: The Army may have to slash troop strength and training to save its ambitious modernization program from the likely post-COVID budget crunch.
Painful choices are already painfully familiar to the Army. Even in the flush years of the Trump Administration, the Army largely funded its new weapons by cutting lower-priority programs. In 2021, the service will face Democratic control of the White House, the House of Representatives, and potentially the Senate, amidst the national fiscal hangover from trillions in COVID stimulus spending. The Army’s own former Chief of Staff, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, has predicted a “bloodletting” of ground-force programs to fund sea, air, and space technologies more essential to counter to China.