The U.S. Army wants an automated communications planning system. In the short term, researchers expect to use an "intelligent engine" but in the future, artificial intelligence will likely take over the task. Planning communications for different conditions is commonly known as PACE planning. The acronym stands for "primary, alternate, contingency and emergency" communications. Different situations call for different communications systems, explains Michael Brownfield, chief of the Army Future Capabilities Office within the Combat Capabilities Development Command's research organization formally named the Command and Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.

Artificial intelligence could eventually take over planning for primary, alternate, contingency and emergency communications for the U.S. Army.