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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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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