The US Army has awarded Anduril a contract worth up to $1.8 billion over five years to expand its Next-Generation Command and Control (NGC2) programme, according to Anduril. The deal moves NGC2 from division-scale experimentation to operational fielding, starting with I Corps.
Contract details
The award includes an initial base period valued at $162.8 million. Options could raise the total to $1.8 billion. Anduril will deliver the common data layer baseline for NGC2, built on its Lattice software.
From prototype to baseline
The Army extended Anduril’s Other Transaction Authority agreement in July 2025 to build the NGC2 prototype for the 4th Infantry Division. Engineers worked alongside soldiers during the Ivy Sting exercises, rewriting software after each event.
At the Ivy Mass exercise, more than 2,500 end-user devices ran on the same data architecture. Anduril says NGC2 cut artillery fire timelines by 90 percent compared with legacy systems. Further exercises showed that Army, Marine Corps and Navy systems could share information without manual data transfers. The Army also validated the system under degraded communications.
In June 2026, the Army established the NGC2 common data baseline and selected Anduril to lead it.
A harder test in the Pacific
I Corps commands four Army divisions across a theatre where units may sit thousands of miles apart. They must coordinate with joint and allied forces over disrupted, intermittent communications. NGC2 must keep decisions and operations moving even when parts of the network drop out.
An open architecture
Anduril says the common data layer lets the Army add sensors, applications and weapons from different vendors without rebuilding the underlying architecture. New capabilities can then enter service on the same foundation as existing systems.
Learn more on Anduril’s website
