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Army Readies To Scale NGC2, Details Successes, Challenges From Largest Experiment To Date

Army Readies To Scale NGC2, Details Successes, Challenges From Largest Experiment To Date
U.S. Army Sgt. Jonathan Simmons, assigned to the 4th Infantry Division, turns on the C-100 Defense drone with the Picatinny Common Lethality Integration Kit and the munition air-droppable conversion kit mortar during Project Convergence-Capstone 6 (PC-C6) at Fort Irwin, California, July 20, 2026. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Dane Howard)

After the Army’s largest demonstration to date with its Next-Generation Command and Control (NGC2) prototype equipment, senior officials have said the service is readying to scale fielding of the new architecture.  The 4th Infantry Division’s work with NGC2 at the Project Convergence-Capstone 6 (PC-C6) experiment at Fort Irwin, Calif., highlighted successes and some challenges with the commercial-first set of hardware and software capabilities, Army officials told reporters, with the lessons learned informing the “basis of issue” as it moves out…

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