US Army eyes Project Convergence for major NGC2 milestone
US Soldiers with the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, conduct a patrol near Bisbee, Arizona in June 2025. (US Army )
US Army leaders are aiming to reach a major developmental milestone for the Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) capability at service's Project Convergence capstone exercise.
Project Convergence Capstone 6 (PC-C6), slated for July at the National Training Center (NTC) at Fort Irwin in California, will be the site for a division-scale force-on-force NGC2 validation, allowing the Army to rapidly advance from prototyping to scaling product delivery, according to a 22 June service statement.
The decision to carry out the division-level force on force validation comes after initial NGC2 capabilities cleared operational validation status during mass experimentation exercises carried out by the 4th Infantry (4ID) and 25th Infantry (25ID) Divisions.
Elements of 4ID recently completed its Ivy Mass capstone event for the division's series of NGC2 experimentation exercises, dubbed ‘Ivy Sting'.
The Ivy Sting series of division-wide training exercises were designed to “incrementally add elements of [new] software and hardware into different echelons and mission sets” derived from NGC2, according to an army fact sheet. The goal is to achieve a maturity level for NGC2 technologies during ‘Ivy Sting' so that these systems and platforms can support the division-level force on force exercise slated for PC-C6, division leaders said in February 2026.
At PC-C6, 4ID units will lead the division-level validation exercise, leveraging NGC2 capabilities proven during Ivy Sting against a regiment-sized opposition force, according to service officials.
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