Army Plans to Deploy NGC2 Command System to All 11 Divisions Within Five Years

U.S. Army has set a goal to field the Next Generation Command and Control architecture to all 11 divisions within a five-year window, according to a senior acquisition official. Brig. Gen. Shane Taylor, Capability Program Executive for Capability Program Executive Command and Control Information Network, laid out the ambitious schedule while speaking at the AFCEA Belvoir Industry Days conference on Tuesday.

"Another tenet of ours is we’ve got to get the entire network within that five year FYDP," Taylor said, referring to the Future Years Defense Program spending plan. He added that the service is "working very, very hard to get everybody in the Army within that window. " The goal is to field NGC2 to the Army’s 11 divisions in the five-year window by aiming to do two to three divisions a year.

Taylor clarified the accelerated pace after his remarks to Breaking Defense. NGC2 is one of the Army’s top priorities. NGC2 is not a program of record but a mix of capabilities to modernize how the Army shares battlefield data and communicates.

The Army’s command and control network had not been touched since the days of Force XXI, a modernization effort in the mid-1990s, Taylor said. The 4th Infantry Division is currently prototyping the NGC2 full stack, which encompasses a transport layer, integration layer, data layer and application layer. Staff Sgt.

Yaritza Tejeda inputs firing data into an Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System during a live-fire exercise supporting Ivy Sting 4 at Fort Carson, Colorado on February 3, 2026, in an image that illustrates ongoing Army efforts to integrate modernized systems. The 25th Infantry Division had received a modernized network baseline in recent years called C2 Fix, Breaking Defense reported.

I Corps, headquartered in the Pacific, will be the next focus for NGC2 next year, Breaking Defense reported. Taylor told the audience that the tight timeline means his office has to "get creative within the capability window, within the solutions that we’re delivering," by working with vendors and the prototype divisions on ways to be more efficient and effective at how capabilities are delivered.