The Army’s Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) initiative is not a software upgrade. It is a structural redesign of how formations will plan, synchronize, and execute operations across domains.

Future conflict will demand speed across every warfighting function; movement and maneuver, fires, intelligence, sustainment, protection, and mission command. These functions do not win independently, their success hinges on seamless synchronization through a unified operations process.

Planning, preparing, executing, and assessing cannot remain fragmented across disconnected systems.

That is why we are proud to share that Onebrief has been approved to deploy into the Army’s NGC2 environment under the 4th Infantry Division prototype.

This milestone reflects more than technical integration. It reflects a deliberate shift toward a data-centric, cloud-enabled architecture, and Onebrief’s role as operational foundation within that shift.

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One Operational Foundation, Executed Across Specialized Systems

NGC2 is not about replacing every application inside a division. It is about integrating them.

Each warfighting function relies on purpose-built systems optimized for execution; fires platforms, intelligence tools, sustainment systems, and protection workflows. Those systems matter. But without a shared operational foundation, they risk becoming disconnected inputs rather than synchronized outputs.

Onebrief is a critical component to that foundation.

Inside Onebrief, plans and operations will be built, refined, and synchronized across the staff:

• Intelligence assessments will shape shared understanding and inform planning guidance.
• Fires concepts will be developed in context with maneuver and targeting priorities.
• Sustainment constraints and logistics realities will be integrated into course of action development.
• Protection considerations and risk tradeoffs will be visible across the formation.
• Commanders will maintain a live, shared operational picture at echelon.

Because this environment sits at the center of the operations process, touching every warfighting function, it must meet the same standards as the systems it connects.

From there, execution will flow outward.

Targeting data and fires plans will move seamlessly into dedicated fires systems. Intelligence updates will propagate across ISR platforms. Sustainment tasks will synchronize with logistics systems. Protection measures will be tracked and refined within their respective tools.

Onebrief will not replace these specialized applications. It will align them.

By shaping decisions inside a unified operational environment before they are executed in bespoke functional systems, formations will reduce friction, eliminate duplication, and compress the time between decision and action.

This is the connective architecture NGC2 is designed to enable - a shared operational core with specialized systems executing at speed.

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Built for Contested Environments

NGC2 acknowledges a simple truth: command and control will be contested.

Systems supporting mission command must be expeditionary, resilient, and capable of operating across distributed formations. They must enable real-time collaboration without sacrificing continuity of operations. They must function in environments where cyber intrusion attempts are constant and communications may be degraded.

Platforms that underpin the operations process cannot simply claim resilience - they must demonstrate it.

As part of our approval to deploy into the NGC2 environment, Onebrief submitted authenticated vulnerability scan results from an ACAS (Assured Compliance Assessment Solution) scan, along with comprehensive application security testing, including SAST (Static Application Security Testing) and DAST (Dynamic Application Security Testing).

Those results were independently reviewed by the supporting Cybersecurity Service Provider and the 4th ID Enterprise Mission Assurance Support Service representatives. Only after that scrutiny was our application formally approved by the Information System Security Manager (ISSM) and the Authorizing Official (AO).

Operating inside NGC2 requires that level of validation.

There is no theoretical pathway into that environment. There is no shortcut around authenticated scans, third-party review, and formal authorization. Systems either meet the standard or they do not.

Onebrief meets the standard.

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Enabling Decision Dominance at Scale

As the 4th Infantry Division continues scaling the NGC2 prototype to the division level, the importance of synchronized planning across warfighting functions will only increase.

The ability to:

• Share a common operational framework
• Integrate constraints and capabilities across staff sections
• Reduce latency between decision and execution
• Maintain trusted data across echelons

- will be decisive.

NGC2 represents an Army willing to rethink how it procures, evaluates, and scales commercial technology in order to move faster without sacrificing standards.

We are proud to support that effort.

Our commitment is straightforward:

• Continue strengthening the operational foundation across warfighting functions
• Continue investing in resilient, expeditionary architecture
• Continue maintaining the cybersecurity rigor required to operate in mission-critical environments
  
  

Modern mission command depends on trusted systems at its core. Onebrief is proud to be one of those systems.