The U.S. Army has chosen defense-technology company Anduril to lead the "common data layer" baseline for its Next Generation Command and Control program, known as NGC2, according to DefenseScoop.
NGC2 is the Army's effort to modernize how its forces communicate and make decisions. The common data layer is essentially the plumbing underneath that system — the part responsible for moving and organizing information so that different tools and units can work from the same picture.
According to DefenseScoop, as the Army looks to scale NGC2 across the force, it has settled on Anduril to help shepherd data, applications, AI models and other military systems. That work would run through Anduril's software platform, called Lattice.
DefenseScoop reports that the selection sets the "groundwork for rapid scaling" of NGC2, signaling that the Army intends to expand the program more widely once this foundational layer is in place.
The brief details available indicate this is a baseline decision — an early, structural choice about whose technology will underpin the broader command-and-control overhaul rather than a finished, fully deployed system.
Why it matters: Command and control is how a military senses what is happening and decides how to respond, so the company that controls the underlying data layer holds an influential position in how the Army fights and modernizes in the years ahead.