Army's Next Generation Command and Control Initiative Gains Momentum
The U.S. Army is advancing its Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) program, aiming to revolutionize how it fights, organizes, and manages its military occupational specialties (MOSs). The Army is developing multiple NGC2 prototypes with various vendors, customizing equipment to specific units based on priority, mission, and theater.
The Army is setting up an integration lab at Fort Carson to test NGC2 with units, enabling iterative modernization beyond conventional test and evaluation methods. This lab will support the 4th Infantry Division, which is spearheading the data management revolution with NGC2. The division is hosting Ivy Sting command and control exercises to scale the prototype to the division level, with the U.S. Army's Future Vertical Lift (FVL) aviation units at the forefront of this integration.
The Army has allocated nearly $100 million to Anduril and a team of vendors to create a division-level NGC2 prototype, due by July for Project Convergence Capstone 6. The Army is assessing after-action reviews from Ivy Sting 1 and adjusting stretch goals for Ivy Sting 2, which will include airspace management and command and control elements. These exercises will culminate every six weeks in a division-wide event called Ivy Mass, ultimately transitioning into Project Convergence. Following Project Convergence 6, the Army will decide on specific systems to acquire and deploy to units, with potential broader service changes to follow.
NGC2 is the Army's top modernization priority, focusing on managing information, data, and command and control with agile and software-based architectures. By investing in this initiative and backing the 4th Infantry Division's leadership in data management, the Army seeks to bolster its capabilities and adapt to the changing battlefield.
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