Shift5, the operational intelligence platform purpose-built for America’s defense and transportation systems, announced that it has been selected as a key partner in Anduril Industries’ Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) initiative for the United States Army.
As part of the NGC2 effort, Shift5’s platform ingests, normalizes, and translates vehicle health and performance data from mission-critical systems, operating seamlessly across diverse vehicle platforms and communication protocols. This operational data is delivered through Anduril’s Lattice Mesh into situational awareness and logistics applications, enabling commanders to gain real-time insight into fleet readiness, maintenance status, and sustainment operations at the tactical edge.
“NGC2 is redefining how the Army maintains decision advantage over our adversaries, at pace and at scale,” said Toby Magsig, President and Interim CEO of Shift5. “Our platform was built to provide unprecedented operational insights into our nation’s warfighting systems, and we’re honored to work alongside Anduril Industries, other trusted partners, and the 4th Infantry Division in developing and testing this capability for the warfighter.”
Shift5 rapidly integrated its operational intelligence capabilities into Lattice Mesh in just two months, enabling a live operational demonstration during the Army’s Ivy Sting 4 exercise earlier this month and showcasing how commercial technology can be deployed at speed to support modern command and control operations.
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“Shift5 brings deep expertise in vehicle telemetry,” said Tom Keane, Senior Vice President at Anduril Industries. “What NGC2 does is make that data usable quickly and at the edge. At Ivy Sting 4, their vehicle health insights flowed through Anduril’s Lattice Mesh and informed sustainment decisions in the field. That’s exactly what we’re building NGC2 to do.”
NGC2 is the Army’s modernization initiative focused on transforming command and control by integrating best-in-class commercial technologies into a unified, interoperable ecosystem. Anduril leads one of the NGC2 prototype teams, working alongside Palantir Technologies, Striveworks, Govini, Rune Technologies, Instant Connect Enterprise, Research Innovations, Inc., and Microsoft under a $99.6 million Other Transaction Authority agreement.
The Anduril-led NGC2 prototype is currently being evaluated and scaled by the Army’s 4th Infantry Division through a series of operational experimentation events known as Ivy Sting, which are designed to accelerate delivery of resilient, data-driven command and control capabilities to the warfighter.