Story by Maj. Matthew St Clair | XVIII Airborne Corps Public Affairs | 12.16.2025
Scarlet Dragon is the XVIII Airborne Corps’ premier innovation exercise, where new ideas and technologies are tested to solve current issues on the battlefield. The Scarlet Dragon exercise series started in 2020 as a table-top exercise in the basement of the XVIII Airborne Corps’ headquarters and has evolved into a triannual innovation event where joint services, government agencies, and......
Story by Shawn Nesaw | Capability Program Executive - Intelligence & Spectrum Warfare | 07.10.2025
The Program Executive Office Intelligence, Electronic Warfare & Sensors (PEO IEW&S) Integration Directorate (ID) worked with 18th Airborne Corps, 82nd Airborne Division, Project Manager Electronic Warfare & Cyber, and industry partners during the most recent Scarlet Dragon Experimentation to successfully utilize the Integrated Sensor Architecture (ISA) to transmit electromagnetic warfare data......
Story by Spc. Osvaldo Fuentes | XVIII Airborne Corps Public Affairs | 02.03.2023
The XVIII Airborne Corps partnered with U.S. Central Command and several commands spanning across all branches of the Department of Defense to enable data-driven predictive models to inform and drive operations. The exercise was held across multiple states, to include North Carolina, Georgia, Utah, and Florida. They employed multiple platforms across all domains to hit specific targets in a......
