Army Tests NGC2 Against Electronic Warfare
The US Army's 4th Infantry Division recently stress-tested its Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) software at Fort Carson, Colorado, evaluating resilience against electronic warfare and jamming. During exercises involving 20 sensor types and live 155mm M777 fires, officials said NGC2 rerouted communications and self-healed, allowing units to operate disconnected from division cloud and reconnect seamlessly. Industry partners include Anduril and Lockheed Martin, with broader testing planned in May.
Key Points
- 1Validated NGC2 resilience: system rerouted communications and self-healed under electronic jamming.
- 2Demonstrated importance: maintained mission command with 20 sensor inputs despite satellite and cloud denial.
- 3Implies operators must train retransmission and backup comms procedures in denied, degraded environments.
Scoring Rationale
Operational resilience in live EW tests and vendor integration drove score; limited novel capability beyond iterative testing.
Sources
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