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Mingus: Army Aims To Scale NGC2 Across The Force In ‘Very Short Period Of Time’

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

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Mingus: Army Aims To Scale NGC2 Across The Force In ‘Very Short Period Of Time’

U.S Army Spc. Mason Delbono assigned to the 25th Infantry Division talks capabilites of the Skydio X10D Drone to Gen. James. J. Mingus, Vice Chief of Staff of the Army during JPMRC 25-01 on Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, Oct. 5, 2024. Photo by Staff Sgt. Brenden Delgado

As the Army moves out on its Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) modernization initiative, a senior official said Tuesday he believes the service can scale the new architecture across the entire Army “in a very short period of time.” “This is not going to be a production challenge. It’ll be a money challenge [and] we are going to find a way to do that. We believe we can literally do the entire Army in a very short period of…

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