- The Army just ran a big Mojave test of its Next Generation Command-and-Control (NGC2) system — about 10,000 troops, ~100 new technologies — and plans to scale the parts that worked to more units.
- Some commercial hardware and apps didn’t hold up in the desert heat (soldiers even cooled antennas with ice‑soaked T‑shirts), so the Army is pruning failures and refining useful tools.
- The service is seeking roughly $4 billion to keep developing NGC2 and is shifting toward faster, commercial off‑the‑shelf buys with industry partners.
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