Anduril Continues to Scale Next-Generation Command and Control Across the Army

Anduril Continues to Scale Next-Generation Command and Control Across the Army

Contract worth up to $1.8 billion over five years will expand NGC2 from division-scale experimentation to operational fielding, beginning with I Corps

Anduril was founded on the belief that software would become the connective tissue of the battlefield, allowing sensors, weapons, vehicles, applications, and operators to work together regardless of who built them or where they were deployed.

For nearly a decade, Anduril has been building toward that vision through Lattice, first connecting individual sensors and systems, then expanding across weapons, services, and allied and coalition partner networks. The broadest application of that work to date is in support of the U.S. Army's Next-Generation Command and Control (NGC2) effort. The Army is now advancing from proving the NGC2 architecture in the field to operational fielding.

The Army has awarded Anduril a contract to expand delivery of the common data layer baseline for NGC2 beginning with I Corps. The contract includes an initial base period valued at $162.8 million, with options that could bring its total value to $1.8 billion over five years.

Building the connective layer for the battlefield

Instead of relying on separate systems built around proprietary networks, applications, hardware, and upgrade cycles, the Army is delivering NGC2 as a common software and data architecture to connect technologies from across the force and incorporate new capabilities as they emerge.

Early Lattice demonstrations connected sensors and weapons built by different companies into a shared battle network, allowing information to move between systems that had never been designed to work together. Over time, Lattice expanded across services, classifications, geographies, and mission sets as Anduril worked with the Department of War and allies to connect systems across increasingly complex operations.

The Army accelerated that work in July 2025 by continuing the Other Transaction Authority agreement awarded to Team Anduril to deliver the NGC2 prototype for the 4th Infantry Division. Engineers began working directly alongside Soldiers weeks later through a series of Ivy Sting exercises, using each field event to identify problems, rewrite software, integrate new capabilities, and return with an improved system.

Proving the architecture at division scale

Within a year, NGC2 grew from individual mission threads into a division-scale architecture supporting fires, intelligence, sustainment, aviation, and other missions, at a pace of development rarely possible under traditional programs. At Ivy Mass, more than 2,500 end-user devices and a variety of warfighting applications operated on the same data architecture. NGC2 reduced artillery fire timelines by 90 percent compared to legacy systems and accelerated complex airspace coordination and deconfliction. Additional exercises demonstrated that Army, Marine Corps, and Navy systems could share information without requiring operators to manually move data between disconnected systems.

The Army also validated NGC2 under degraded communications, demonstrating that the architecture could continue supporting Soldiers even when units lost connectivity to higher headquarters.

In June 2026, the Army established the NGC2 common data baseline and selected Anduril to lead it. Lattice now provides the distributed data layer connecting applications, data, AI models, sensors, vehicles, and other battlefield systems within NGC2.

Scaling to corps-level operations

The five-year award supports NGC2's progress from division-scale prototyping to corps-scale fielding, beginning with a significantly harder operational problem in the Pacific. America's First Corps commands four Army divisions across a theater where units may be separated by thousands of miles and must coordinate with joint and allied forces while operating through disrupted and intermittent communications. NGC2 will need to connect those units while allowing decisions and operations to continue even when portions of the broader network are unavailable.

No single company should control every element of the Army's command-and-control stack. NGC2 allows the Army to select and integrate the best available technology while ensuring information can move securely between systems. A common data layer allows the Army to integrate new systems without rebuilding the underlying architecture for every sensor, application, or weapon, so new capabilities can be fielded on the same foundation as those already in use.

NGC2 puts into practice the idea Anduril was built around: a command and control architecture that can evolve as technology, missions, and threats change. With NGC2, the Army is leading that shift at scale.