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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Rune’s TyrOS platform was purpose-built for predictive logistics at the tactical level and is integrated into the NGC2 prototype to support sustainment decision-making in complex operational environments. Rune is part of a broad industry team, led by Anduril, which includes technology providers supporting different aspects of the NGC2 architecture.

Adopting a “team of teams” strategy, Rune’s TyrOS platform supports logistics operations at the tactical level. Critically, the platform will ingest sensor data and information generated at the edge. This crucial role directly addresses a major military challenge: ensuring commanders receive accurate, real-time logistics information, especially in contested environments where communications may be unreliable or unavailable.

NGC2 is the Army’s effort to enable commanders to make faster and better decisions than the enemy by integrating information from previously siloed warfighting systems. The initiative delivers an ecosystem designed to enable interoperability across a distributed network of platforms, systems, and applications. Rune addresses a critical gap in this ecosystem: transforming logistics from a reactive, manual process into an intelligent system that operates at the speed required for modern warfare against peer adversaries.

“NGC2 is exactly the kind of mission-critical challenge Rune was built to tackle,” said David Tuttle, cofounder and CEO of Rune Technologies. “We’re excited to join Team Anduril and contribute to the NGC2 effort – proving how new capabilities can be rapidly integrated to close real operational gaps. The Army and Anduril deserve credit for designing NGC2 to bring innovation into the fight at speed. With TyrOS, we’re delivering predictive logistics and real-time decision support down to the lowest tactical levels, and we’re already working alongside 4th Infantry Division sustainers to support their operations.”

Rune’s systems are designed with a mesh-centric, “offline first” architecture, ensuring resilience in denied, degraded, intermittent, or low-bandwidth (DDIL) conditions. Operating within Anduril’s mesh-based NGC2 architecture, TyrOS provides AI-enabled decision support when connectivity is limited or unavailable—supporting operations against near-peer adversaries who actively target supply lines and communications infrastructure. Under the contract, TyrOS is integrating with new and existing systems within the NGC2 team and across the Army.

“With NGC2, Team Anduril has been able to quickly integrate and onboard applications that provide mission specific value to warfighters,” said Tom Keane, senior vice president at Anduril. “Within hours TyrOS was able to subscribe to key data sources using Lattice Mesh, share data across vehicles and command posts, and inform soldiers of key logistics data points.”

Source: Rune Technologies

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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.”

Source: Lockheed Martin

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“The Army’s NGC2 program is too important to accept anything less than success in execution, including system protection against device compromise, external threats to the network and data spillage,” said Sam Mehta, president, communication systems, L3Harris. “We are the only industry partner delivering battle-proven, software-defined radio technology that meets the Department of War’s appetite for high-data throughput with the network security, resilience and integrity required to ensure battlespace supremacy against any enemy daring to test America’s military might.”

The L3Harris data device meets the demands for high-data throughput to enable the data fabric for NGC2. These devices provide multiple transport options offering true resilience and interoperability from NATO to Homeland Security.

Source: L3Harris

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