US Army Wants Its Weapons Systems to Talk to Each Other

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is assembling top defense contractors as well as Palantir Technologies Inc. and Anduril Industries Inc. in a bid to get their weapons to communicate better with each other and to more closely integrate AI.

The initiative, dubbed the “Right to Integrate Hackathon,” was inspired by a recent trip Driscoll took to Germany where he saw for himself an age-old problem: The Army’s technology often operates in isolation. Integrating systems typically requires custom engineering work, slowing operations and limiting how quickly new tools can be deployed.

Driscoll met with members of the Ukrainian military who are already ...