7 January 2026

What’s next for Army’s ambitious Next Gen C2 effort: 2026 preview

Mark Pomerleau

One major Army initiative that’s expected to pick up speed in 2026 is its Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) effort, specifically through a series of experiments designed to slowly expand the scope of the new tech before a single culminating exercise.

Two of the goals for 2026: kick off smaller-scale experiments for one NGC2 prototype, and expand experiments of another prototype to test it with an entire division in 2026, since going forward the division will be the unit of action for the Army.

Described as a clean-slate approach, for NGC2 the service wants to essentially start from scratch and develop a holistic architecture for how soldiers and commanders ingest, visualize and share battlefield information, all with the goal of providing decision advantage and being faster than the adversary on a dynamic battlefield.

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