Operators at the tactical edge need situational awareness, full spectrum cyber access and RF effects, and an accredited security posture on unified compute they can carry into forward areas. These capabilities have historically lived on separate stacks, with separate accreditation paths. On Menace, they now run together.

Together, these integrated solutions enhance Menace’s foundation for mission software, cyber operations, and secure communications. Teams can rapidly deploy, operate, and secure their mission systems globally without the need to integrate multiple disparate products.

Booz Allen and Anduril have collaborated for six years, including the fielding of Booz Allen’s EdgeXtend, built on Anduril’s Voyager edge hardware systems. The partnership and integrations announced today extend that work into C2, cyber and RF effects, and zero trust – capability areas where the DoW has signaled clear demand and where peer and near-peer competitors are increasingly contesting U.S. forces.

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The collaboration has roots in the Army’s Ivy Sting exercises, which validate emerging NGC2 capabilities under operational conditions. In this series, applications like LMI’s SHEPRD are hosted in the NGC2 ecosystem, enabled by Lattice Mesh, and tested in field exercises alongside active Army units.

During Ivy Sting 4, LMI rapidly modified and deployed SHEPRD at IL6 – the highest level of authorization for cloud systems handling Secret classified data – in a matter of weeks, a process that would traditionally take months or longer. That acceleration was made possible through close, iterative collaboration between LMI, Anduril, and the Army, with all three focused on mission outcomes over ownership.

The result was a fundamentally different development cycle, where capabilities could be fielded, evaluated, and refined in near real time. Building on that success, LMI and Anduril now embark on a Rapid Development Pilot to extend this model, delivering additional soldier-centric applications that address real operational challenges faced by warfighters, LMI said.

“The promise of NGC2 is a virtual arsenal of built-for-combat apps that are accessible to any and all units as needed, and that’s compelling on its own,” said SHEPRD Platform Lead Allen Rivers. “But we’ve also shown that you can deliver these solutions securely, as they’re needed, with an incredibly short turnover between ideation, production, and deployment. That combination of pace and availability is a game changer.”

“The measure of NGC2 is how fast the Army can pull combat-ready capability from any partner into soldiers’ hands,” said Zach Kramer, GM for mission command, Anduril Industries. “SHEPRD’s deployment at Ivy Sting showed what’s possible when the platform is built to accelerate the ecosystem instead of constrain it, and this Rapid Development Pilot with LMI is how we make that the standard across the Army enterprise.”

“What we proved at Ivy Sting is that you can take a capability from concept to deployment in weeks, not months, even in secure environments,” said LMI CTO Jared Summers. “Anduril has built the ecosystem to make that possible, and together we’re showing what a new model for delivering capability looks like.”

Source: LMI

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The Government intends to convene a Threat Coordination Group (TCG) to facilitate dialogue with cleared industry partners regarding emerging and evolving threats relevant to the Command and Control (C2)/Counter-C2 portfolio. The objective is to enhance shared understanding of the future threat environment to inform capability development and capture requirements for additional information, intelligence data, and threat models.

The TCG is intended to facilitate informed, two-way dialogue between Government intelligence analysts and industry to improve shared understanding of the evolving threat environment and its implications for capability development, modernization, and risk management across the armor ground maneuver portfolios.

The TCG will address global technology trends relevant to acquisition decision-making, including but not limited to:

• Peer and near-peer technology trends
• Threat electronic warfare and cyber capabilities
• Survivability and lethality challenges in contested environments
• Counter-UAS, Counter-GPS and emerging threat considerations

Review the Army Threat Coordination Group notice.

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“Edge devices have become the most targeted assets on the internet, and the industry’s visibility into what happens after they’re compromised has been dangerously limited,” said Ash Devata, CEO, GreyNoise Intelligence. “GreyNoise has always been one of the most authoritative sources on inbound network threats. With C2 Detection, our customers can not only identify who’s probing their perimeter, but whether a device is already compromised and who it’s phoning home to.”

Cyber adversaries frequently attack edge devices to exploit known vulnerabilities and gain access. GreyNoise utilizes the world’s most sophisticated deception network of over 5,000 sensors in 80 countries to observe internet traffic and can determine whether activity is malicious in intent based on certain behavioral characteristics and patterns. In cases where an IP is attempting to initiate a download of malware onto a network, valuable insights can be found in the network’s outbound traffic log, since compromised devices often call out to C2 servers to receive additional instructions. This information can provide valuable insights to help security teams determine whether their perimeter has been breached.

Powered by GreyNoise’s callback IP intelligence and malware hash data, C2 Detection provides post-exploitation, outbound-facing threat intelligence by surfacing active compromise through outbound communication with attacker-controlled infrastructure. It provides an end-to-end overview about how attacks actually work, including what payloads were delivered, what binaries were downloaded, which external servers were used for Command and Control, and what commands and behaviors were associated with those sessions.

By matching outbound egress traffic against a continuously updated dataset of confirmed malware-hosting IPs and C2 infrastructure, C2 Detection produces a signal that indicates exactly how serious each match is. Security teams can use this dataset of ‘phone home’ addresses that compromised devices communicate with for potential breach detection via outbound telemetry by matching it against their outbound logs. If an internal device has been communicating with malicious IPs, there is a high degree of likelihood that the device has been compromised.

“With C2 Detection, GreyNoise is effectively closing the visibility gap at the edge of the network,” said Corey Bodzin, chief product officer, GreyNoise Intelligence. “Up until now, security teams have had a structural blind spot on post-exploitation activity, especially on edge devices like firewalls, VPN concentrators, and internet-facing IoT. These are now the most actively exploited assets on the internet, but Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) can’t be run on them, and their native telemetry is often too sparse to detect callback behavior. Our research shows that millions of edge devices are already infected and silently calling out to malware-hosting servers, C2 nodes, and associated file hashes.  C2 Detection surfaces that activity, and empowers security teams to take action faster.”

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During the exercise, held at Fort Carson, Colo., SHEPRD provided protection cells — teams responsible for safeguarding personnel, equipment, and operations against enemy targeting — with a real-time operating picture that integrated threat data, asset locations, terrain effects, and protection coverage into a single app environment. The platform demonstrated rapid visualization of risk, synchronized protection measures, and adjustment of posture as conditions changed.

Protection cells often operate in secure environments, where availability of emerging technologies lags. This creates a reliance on manual processes and the reconciliation of data across multiple systems, spreadsheets, and planning documents.

As a platform operating within the Army’s NGC2 enterprise environment, SHEPRD brings protection planning, analysis, and execution into a single system. It introduces capabilities such as 3D modeling and automated, risk-based prioritization of protection requirements, giving protection cells a clear view of assets, threats, and coverage within a secure environment. This allows teams to holistically prioritize assets and identify emerging risks as conditions evolve.

“During Ivy Sting, we saw how quickly protection conditions can change and how hard it is for teams to stay aligned using manual processes,” said Allen Rivers, LMI SHEPRD platform lead. “SHEPRD gives protection cells a shared, real-time view of assets, threats, and coverage so they can adjust their posture and make decisions without delay.”

SHEPRD is part of LMI’s broader work supporting the Army’s modernization effort. During the Ivy Sting 5 exercise, the platform successfully operated within the Army’s IL6 (SIPRNet) environment and integrated with other emerging technologies currently under evaluation.

“Ivy Sting is designed to test technology in operational conditions,” said Jared Summers, chief technology officer at LMI. “Seeing SHEPRD perform in that environment validated our confidence that the platform is ready to support protection missions as the Army modernizes command and control. Now, we’re looking ahead to Project Convergence Capstone 6 this summer.”

“LMI focuses on building technology that works in the environments where missions actually happen,” said Josh Wilson, chief executive officer of LMI. “SHEPRD reflects that, bringing data, analytics, and operational context together in contested domains to help commanders better protect the people and assets that make the mission possible.”

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In partnership with the Army’s 25th Infantry Division, CPE C2IN, and industry partners Lockheed Martin, Accelint, and Rune Technologies, Raft delivered real-time, hardware- and data-agnostic synchronization of sensors, fires, ISR, and sustainment systems under live-fire conditions at the tactical edge. Both exercises validate that a software-defined, data-first approach accelerates decisions, increases soldier lethality, and enables decisive multi-domain operations at speed and scale.

During Lightning Surge 2, division artillery soldiers from the 25th Infantry Division demonstrated Raft Data Platform and Raft AI Mission System ingesting live calls for fires and compressing a soldier intensive process into an automated workflow. The demonstration validated, under senior leadership scrutiny, that AI-powered, agnostic data integration can materially accelerate lethal decision cycles in live-fire conditions at the tactical edge.

“In modern combat, weapons systems, battle-tested and emerging, must operate together at the tactical edge under pressure,” said Shubhi Mishra, founder and CEO of Raft. “Raft Data Platform and Raft AI Mission System are the leading agnostic data and AI layers built for the tactical edge that persists when transport degrades, applications change, or environments become contested. Lightning Surge exercises continue to validate exactly this under live fire.”

Through the Lightning Surge exercises, the team is validating a modern, open by design command and control architecture that aims to reduce costs, streamline integration and get capability to operators faster, the company said.

Source: Raft

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The bridge-round investment builds on an existing two-year partnership with Hadean and Booz Allen and is a potent example of an established government technology company scouting and shepherding innovative commercial technology making real world impacts.

“Working with startups like Hadean, we are on the cusp of revolutionizing how the Department of War incorporates synthetic mission rehearsals as a critical component of training and readiness efforts,” said Steve Escaravage, president of Booz Allen’s Defense Technology Group. “We are committed to accelerating the integration of Hadean’s technology to gain a decisive edge for US and allied forces.”

The largest provider of AI to the U.S. federal government, Booz Allen will continue to work with Hadean in operational environments and deliver joint solutions built with agentic, physical, and spatial AI. This partnership will revolutionize training, readiness, and mission rehearsal capabilities by leveraging Hadean’s advanced simulation and wargaming platform. While focused on supporting the warfighter directly, the scalability of Hadean’s solutions also enables potential broader use across civil, intelligence, infrastructure, and national security sectors.

“The momentum we’ve already built together and a growing track record of success position Booz Allen Ventures as a natural partner in accelerating our expansion across the United States,” said Craig Beddis, co-founder and chief executive at Hadean. “Their deep experience delivering complex, mission-critical programs across the U.S. defense ecosystem brings more than capital, it brings operational insight and strategic alignment. Together, we’re focused on scaling secure, deployable capabilities that meet the real-world needs of U.S. and allied defense organizations.”

Booz Allen Ventures joins Entrepreneurs First (EF), Twin Track Ventures—a NATO-aligned defense and security fund —and British Business Bank as strategic and institutional investors this bridge round as Hadean accelerates towards its Series B and strives to serve as the UK’s next Defence Tech unicorn.

“We back builders. We invest in disruptors. We answer our governments’ calls for speed and brilliant technology,” said Travis Bales, director of Booz Allen Ventures. “Hadean is building industry-leading technology that vastly modernizes legacy systems and transforms how our warfighters train at a time when operational readiness and tech advantage matter more than ever. We’re pumped to move forward together.”

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This second order is a follow-on to the $34 million contract the company received in October. The follow-on award will incrementally add capability for Army prototypes of NGC2. Together, these awards total $121.5 million.

“In the transport layer, we are responsible for moving all the 1s and 0s across the battlefield, so data reaches the warfighter who needs it, when they need it,” said Jon Patrick, Vice President of Business Development at Persistent.

Faster information delivery times and more reliable access to data enable faster, more efficient decisions, streamlining command and control (C2). The MANET radio continues to demonstrate it can serve as part of the transport layer, with the speed, resilience, and capacity required for combat operations.

“As the Army has presented us with increasingly demanding benchmarks, our team continues to deliver highly resilient transport that can empower an armored division on the move,” said Dr. Herbert Rubens, founder and CEO of Persistent Systems. “We’re proud to provide a commercial solution that supports the Army’s transport layer and strengthens the warfighter at echelon.”

Over the coming months, deliveries will be underway as Persistent looks forward to empowering the Army with the most advanced communications technology, shaping the Army’s future network.

Source: Persistent Systems

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NGC2 is the U.S. Army’s effort to fundamentally change how digital mission command is conducted, utilizing a common data layer to provide a continuous common operating picture with a single, integrated view of the battlefield to enable swift and decisive action.

Lockheed Martin is leading an NGC2 prototype effort to provide the Army with warfighting data for decision dominance by unifying it in a single common data layer. Lockheed Martin’s NGC2 prototype will operate on the 25ID’s existing transport and compute environment, which will extend across echelons, from Division to Platoon and from cloud to edge.

During Lightning Surge 1, the Lockheed Martin team showcased the rapid deployment of prototype capability, only one month after representative NGC2 hardware was delivered and installed to the 25ID’s Home Station Mission Command Lab.

To enable commanders and warfighters to make decisions more rapidly, the Lockheed Martin team delivered the foundation of the 25ID’s NGC2 prototype with a common data layer augmented by artificial intelligence (AI) tools, one of which enables voice and chat natural language processing for spot reporting.

The common data layer provides the U.S. Army with improved command and control capabilities. Once information is updated in the data layer, it is updated everywhere, in real time, with no more “swivel chair” manual processes. When seconds matter most, that time difference is critical.

“Our goal during the NGC2 Lightning Surge events is to prove speed and warfighter centered development at every step,” said Chandra Marshall, vice president at Lockheed Martin. “Our team is focused on strong collaboration with the Army and the best of industry partners, while remaining flexible, iterating in real time and accelerating the delivery of capability.”

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The project will leverage HERE Enterprise Browser as a secure foundation to create an AI-powered integration layer that connects disparate Army information systems, modernizes legacy data formats, and enables seamless information sharing across military applications. This browser-based approach allows the Army to unify data access without replacing existing systems.

HERE will execute the project in partnership with Dr. Manoj D. Mahajan, director of special programs at Stony Brook University Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT), and Dr. Pawel Polak of Stony Brook University’s Applied Mathematics & Statistics Department (AMS). Stony Brook University CEWIT, a leading research facility in artificial intelligence and large language models, brings significant expertise to accelerate technology development and Army deployment.

“We’re honored to support the U.S. Army’s modernization priorities through our enterprise browser platform,” said Chuck Doerr, co-founder and CIO at HERE. “This award validates our technology’s ability to solve complex integration challenges in mission-critical environments where security and performance are paramount.”

“Stony Brook University is looking forward to working with HERE Enterprise Inc. and the U.S. Army to provide AI agnostic solutions that prevent vendor lock-in for the U.S. Department of War.” said Dr. Mahajan. “This will increase productivity of workflows between separated systems to assist analysts in a timely, reliable, and accurate methodology using new applied AI technologies.”

The SBIR award represents HERE’s expanding presence in government and defense markets.

Source: HERE

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