US Army trains to hide command posts in digital noise

Future warfare’s speed and chaos are pushing the US Army to rethink its field command posts. Those posts emit a high volume of transmissions that advanced adversaries can detect and target, and recent strikes in Ukraine on Russian command centers — which killed more than a dozen generals — have underscored that vulnerability.

The Army’s Next Generation Command and Control, or NGC2, is a complete overhaul of how it communicates and fights. At Fort Carson the service ran its most complex division-level drill yet, pairing blue and red teams and exercising electronic warfare, cyber systems, and space-based effects to see how the system holds up under realistic combat conditions.

Camouflage tents spread across miles hid vehicles outfitted with NGC2 computers; those vehicles serve as mobile command posts designed to be dispersed, survivable, and operated by just a few soldiers.

United States, Fort Carson

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