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Coming out of an entire career in the operational Army, Maj. Gen. Patrick Ellis, now the director of the Army\u2019s command-and-control modernization<\/a>, said it hasn\u2019t been uncommon in the field to see critical data jotted down on a piece of cardboard in the back of a platoon sergeant\u2019s tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s probably a headquarter somewhere today at an exercise where an intel officer is going to write everything down on a piece of sticky note that came out of his intel system, walk across the [Tactical Operations Center], hand it over to the fires guy who has to type it into the fires system to make it work,\u201d he said in a Monday press briefing at the Pentagon. \u201cWe realize this is just not the approach to speed that we need in the United States Army.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army\u2019s command-and-control, or C2, architecture, which enables commanders to plan, decide and execute missions, was cobbled together over 20 years during the Global War on Terror. Most warfighting functions used separate stove-piped systems, amounting to a total of 17 programs of record, according to Alex Miller, the Army\u2019s chief technology officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe had built up a lot of technical debt and process debt,\u201d Miller said during the briefing. \u201cAs technology evolved and as commercial industry really got into the edge processing game and data analytics and cloud, we had processes in place that didn\u2019t allow us to change fast,\u201d Miller said, calling it \u201c60 years of policy archeology.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George recognized getting command-and-control <\/a>right was imperative to future battlefield success and decided to embark on a program to fix the service\u2019s C2 capabilities<\/a> to avoid operational disruption while creating the necessary clean-sheet system from scratch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army\u2019s effort to overhaul its command-and-control ecosystem, dubbed Next-Generation C2, is one of the top priorities for Army modernization \u2014 if not the highest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you cannot command and control your formation, nothing else matters,\u201d Army Futures Command commander, Gen. James Rainey said last week at the Association of the U.S. Army\u2019s Global Force Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Astronomically fast\u2019<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

A year ago at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, soldiers at the Army\u2019s experimentation event Project Convergence <\/a>and industry partners, including Google, Anduril and Palantir, demonstrated a proof-of-concept at the unclassified level for what a Next-Generation C2 system, or NGC2, <\/b>might look like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walking through a cluster of adobe buildings and pitched tents in a quiet desert village in the middle of the Mojave Desert, George saw commanders and unit leaders using just a laptop or tablet and headset to communicate, plan, conduct reconnaissance and targeting and execute fires operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using just their vehicles as operations centers, the units decreased both their signature in the electromagnetic spectrum and Tactical Operations Centers footprints, which typically stick out like sore thumbs, and planned and executed their missions more efficiently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then the service took the capability to another experimentation exercise called NetModX<\/a> in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe took that commercial architecture, the software side of that, the data flow inside of that, put it on real Army systems, on the real radios that we have or might want, satellites, all that. Ran that system, jammed them, knocked people off of it, tested it,\u201d Ellis said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A breaching and demolition ground engineering robot, carrying a mine clearing line charge, is experimented with at Project Convergence on Fort Irwin, California, in March 2025. (Sgt. Marita Schwab\/U.S. Army)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Fast-forward to Project Convergence, held earlier this spring at the National Training Center. There, the Army gave the capability to an entire armored battalion, put it in a brigade headquarters and had real soldiers employing the technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere wasn\u2019t an Army of contractors following vehicles around,\u201d Ellis noted. <\/b>\u201cThe soldiers were actually using it a lot, really quality feedback there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For instance, Ellis said that he climbed on top of a tank for 45 minutes talking to soldiers using NGC2. They showed how they could flip through intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance feeds, examine vehicle maintenance data and supplies status and make better decisions in real time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cClimbing off that tank I realized we hadn\u2019t once talked about how complicated it was to access that data, how hard it was to log in, the transport problems they were having,\u201d Ellis said. \u201cWe were talking about what they\u2019re actually doing with the data, which is exactly what our goal is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army took one year to go from a proof-of-concept to capability validation, a timeline Miller called \u201castronomically fast.\u201d Normally, such a process would take five to seven years, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe went from characterization of need with industry, government and industry together, to things in the hands of soldiers that I am actually pretty confident that if war broke out tonight, they could use in real-time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Logging in<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The Army has now enabled a process through a software acquisition strategy<\/a> to try and buy commercially available technology <\/b>more agilely. The service has also moved away from giving industry a set of rigid requirements to adhere to when developing a capability to, instead, provide them with a problem and a short, broad statement outlining the Army\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Industry has already helped significantly to shape the effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not just talking about stovepipes anymore,\u201d Ellis said, \u201cWe\u2019re actually talking about how to approach it from a whole stack, everything from software, the applications, all the way down to the data transport layer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A major part of the effort is developing an integrated data layer on which the service can build applications over the top, according to Ellis. Like applications on smartphones, the Army\u2019s systems can use that same data. Rather than relying on \u201ccomplicated spaghetti charts\u201d to flow data, an integrated data layer puts data all in one place, Ellis said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The service will soon release a request to industry for solutions that will filter into its brand new, clean-sheet approach to Next-Gen C2 to build on the progress made over the last year and begin to scale the capability across the operational force, Lt. Gen. Rob Collins, the military deputy to the Army\u2019s acquisition chief, said. The Army will never stop iterating its C2 capability going forward and will rely heavily on soldier feedback to build the system, he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The major endeavor also presents an opportunity for the service to work differently with industry, Joe Welch, the deputy to the Army Futures Command commander, said during Monday\u2019s media briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re moving away from this concept of an industry integrator into more of a team of teams, but on our side, we need to be a better customer. It\u2019s not just handing industry a problem statement and then walking away, waiting for them to deliver and then holding them accountable if they don\u2019t,\u201d Welch said. \u201cThat partnership means that we need to understand where we have shared incentives, where we have different incentives and then kind of acknowledging those directly and understanding how to work through that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army plans to scale the system to an entire division by the next iteration of Project Convergence, expected to take place in the summer of 2026. The Army chief has chartered the developers to field to both a division and corps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the service typically takes about five years to field a capability to the entire Army, Miller said once the first division gets the core software and data pieces that will be cloud-based, multiple divisions will be able to log in at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army also plans to use funding freed up by ending legacy capabilities to pay for Next-Gen C2 to the tune of \u201cbillions of dollars,\u201d Welch said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no room for things that won\u2019t win,\u201d Miller said. \u201cBeing able to stop and adjust and use the money that taxpayers gave us more efficiently, that\u2019s the name of the game. That\u2019s how we\u2019re going to pay for Next-Gen C2.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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