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U.S. Army to Make Next Generation C2 a Program of Record

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, October 16th, 2024

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U.S. Army to Make Next Generation C2 a Program of Record

U.S. Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. James Mingus leads a discussion during Project Convergence - Capstone 4 at Camp Pendleton, Calif. on Feb. 28 (U.S. Army Photo)

The U.S. Army is going to move out on a program of record for its Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) initiative--also called "C2 Next"--in the coming months, Army Undersecretary Gabe Camarillo said on Tuesday. "I think what we've been spending the last year [doing] is experimenting, learning, developing a game plan about how we're gonna do it," he told a panel on Tuesday at the Association of the U.S. Army annual conference in Washington, D.C. "The next couple of…

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