U.S. Army Sgt. Jonathan Simmons, assigned to the 4th Infantry Division, turns on the C-100 Defense drone with the Picatinny Common Lethality Integration Kit and the munition air-droppable conversion kit mortar during Project Convergence-Capstone 6 (PC-C6) at Fort Irwin, California, July 20, 2026. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Dane Howard)

The Army is planning to have Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) capability deployed across I Corps by the end of 2027, lead contractor Anduril told reporters on Friday. “Then [that will be] continuing out to subsequent divisions over the following years. There's not a locked plan for the subsequent ones, but that is what grows the usage as we go year over year,” Zach Kramer, Anduril’s vice president of mission command, said in a briefing. Anduril announced on Oct.…