US software company Onebrief has deployed its military planning platform within the US Army’s Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) prototype.
NGC2 is the army’s effort to replace multiple legacy command-and-control systems with a unified cloud-based architecture that allows commanders to access and share operational data across various warfighting functions.
Rather than replacing existing software, Onebrief provides a common planning environment that connects data from multiple military software systems.
The platform integrates technologies developed by companies including Anduril, Palantir, Striveworks, Govini, and Microsoft, allowing planners to work from a single interface.
Onebrief’s platform enables commanders and staff to develop operational plans collaboratively, then transfer them directly into command-and-control and execution systems.
The software is intended to connect planning for intelligence, maneuver, fires, logistics, protection, and other battlefield functions while reducing the need to move information between separate applications.
Testing Under Operational Conditions
The integration builds on a series of operational trials conducted by the US Army to evaluate the NGC2 architecture under realistic field conditions.
During the 4th Infantry Division’s IVY STING and IVY MASS experimentation exercises, Onebrief’s platform was used to support operational planning ahead of Project Convergence Capstone 6, a US Army large-scale technology demonstration scheduled for later this year.
According to the company, planners reduced complex planning cycles from up to three hours to 40 minutes, including while operating from displaced command posts with limited communications bandwidth.
The platform also enabled geographically distributed teams to collaborate on live digital maps using shared whiteboards and other real-time planning tools.
