Out in the hot desert environment of Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, the US Army has used Project Convergence 2020 range time to separately test new and appealing technologies, including Robotic Research's Pegasus: a hybrid unmanned ground vehicle (UGV)/unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Over six weeks various army modernisation leaders spent time out at Yuma working on an experimental sensor-to-shooter demonstration that ended with a capstone demonstration, in part geared at reducing the decision-making cycle from 20 minutes to 20 seconds. Various new weapons and stand-in systems were put to the test, including the Extended Range Cannon Artillery (ERCA) system, an MQ-1 Grey Eagle UAV representing a Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA), and Next-Generation Combat Vehicle (NGCV) surrogates.
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