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Across the United States Army and the Department, acquisition is now recognized and operationally executed as a warfighting function.”\nJames outlined how modernization efforts, including AI‑driven training systems, cloud‑native LVC architectures, agentic behaviors, digital twins and unified data ecosystems, are essential to ensuring Soldiers receive realistic, adaptable training that reflects contested, multi-domain environments.\n“We are converging our live, virtual, and constructive capability sets, moving away from distinct silos, running on local hardware racks with unique software baselines towards a converged global training environment that enables a persistent, integrated training capability at the point of need,” James said.\nJames also talked about CPE ST3’s renewed emphasis on program protection planning, as well as the need to ensure training system compatibility with international partners and allies.\n“Everything we do, every contract, every prototype, every requirement, every simulation, every threat model, every training device, converges on a single, sacred purpose: To ensure the United States Soldier is trained, equipped, and prepared to win, decisively. We owe them overmatch,” James said. “This is our generational moment; this is our inflection point; let us keep the Soldier at the center, as we build the future of warfighter readiness together.”\nAttendees also heard from Dr. Daniel Daniels, chief information security officer and director of cybersecurity for CPE ST3, who provided a progress update on how cybersecurity compliance, automation and generative AI are converging to strengthen Army cyber readiness and accelerate RMF-driven modernization.\n“The inherent call to action is we need some help here,” said Daniels. “I know there are smart folks out there. If you think you have a solution to this, I would love to hear what you have to say, so let's connect, and let's get to work.”\nThroughout the event, speakers highlighted Orlando’s unique role as a national center of excellence for defense training and simulation, where military organizations, federal agencies, research institutions and industry innovators collaborate to advance training realism, digital transformation and mission‑focused capability development.\nTechNet Orlando provided industry partners opportunities to engage directly with government decision-makers, program leaders and acquisition professionals, strengthening partnerships that support rapid innovation and modernized training solutions for the Joint Force.\nAFCEA is an international organization that serves its members by providing a forum for the ethical exchange of information focusing on information technology, communications, and electronics for the defense, homeland security and intelligence communities.\nHeadquartered in Orlando, Florida, CPE ST3 is comprised of a highly skilled and diverse workforce of 980 Soldiers, Army civilians and contractors, who work with Army partners to enhance operational readiness and support the Army’s modernization efforts by fielding and sustaining the next generation of multi-domain operations testing, training and information operations capabilities.\n| Date Taken: | 09.17.2026 | \n| Date Posted: | 09.18.2026 15:04 | \n| Story ID: | 575133 | \n| Location: | ORLANDO, FLORIDA, US | \n| Web Views: | 9 | \n| Downloads: | 0 | \nThis work, TechNet Orlando 2026 highlights AI, cyber innovation and accelerated acquisition for the future warfighter, must comply with the restrictions shown on https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright.","confidence":0.9,"diagnostics_url":"/api/diagnose?url=https%3A//www.dvidshub.net/news/575133/technet-orlando-2026-highlights-ai-cyber-innovation-and-accelerated-acquisition-future-warfighter","quality_bucket":"high","failure_kind":"none","retryable":false,"quality_reason":"High confidence: full text extraction produced 4899 characters.","quality_profile":{"profile_version":"extraction_quality.v2","bucket":"high","confidence":0.9,"failure_kind":"none","retryable":false,"retry_after_attempts":0,"reason":"High confidence: full text extraction produced 4899 characters.","operator_guidance":{"severity":"ok","recommended_action":"trust_full_text","next_step":"Use the extracted full text as the primary article source.","operator_label":"Ready","can_retry":false,"can_use_summary":false,"diagnostics_required":false},"content_depth":{"contract_version":"content_depth.v1","category":"full_text","label":"Full text","has_full_text":true,"has_summary":true,"content_length":4899,"summary_length":244,"usable_text_length":4899,"source_field":"content"},"legacy_collapsed":false,"signals":{"extract_state":"ok","extract_error":null,"extract_retries":0,"content_length":4899,"summary_length":244}},"tags":[],"format_contract_version":"news_item_formats.v1"}}}