CARLEY WELCH
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George signed off on new requirements for Next Generation C2 (NGC2) Wednesday, highlighting the new program’s desired functionalities and how industry can contribute to the program.
Among the key attributes George hopes to see out of this effort: a consolidated network architecture, servicemembers using commercial mobile devices provided by the Army and collaboration throughout the service. But most of all, the Army’s top officer is looking to make things as easy as possible for forces in the field.
“I have been a customer of the network for most of my career. Nothing is more frustrating to me in doing this and going out as a brigade commander, as a division commander, or as a corps commander and seeing people struggling more with time to get the network to work than actually fighting the enemy,” he said during a panel at a technical exchange meeting Wednesday.
NGC2 is the Army’s joint effort with industry to build a “data-centric” command and control system facilitated through network transport. The goal is to reinvent the service’s enterprise data architecture and revamp its operational software framework. Basically, the program is designed to create one common data access layer.
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