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Marines accomplish two communications ‘firsts’ at Army’s Project Convergence

U.S. Marines with Marine Wing Communications Squadron 38, Marine Air Control Group 38, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, conduct Lightning Strike 25 at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar and Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Oct. 1-30, 2024. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Luc Boatman)

By Mark Pomerleau

For the first time, a Marine Corps communications squadron integrated non-military, commercial off-the-shelf sensors for maritime domain awareness into operations and plugged into the Army’s unclassified communications architecture to gain a joint common operational picture.

The pair of firsts was conducted as part of Project Convergence Capstone 5, the latest in an annual experimentation event hosted by the Army to test emerging concepts, largely in line with the Pentagon’s Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control.

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