US Army jammed new command-and-control tech to test electronic warfare

The Army put its Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) system through electronic-warfare testing at Fort Carson, Colorado, to see how it would perform when links were disrupted. The service found the software could reroute itself and keep functioning, forcing testers to disable certain features to produce real strain; Maj.

Gen. Patrick Ellis said the system would "heal itself." During the exercise, soldiers lost satellite connections and fell back to radios while hunting for the source of the jamming. After locating it, they eliminated the threat with a mortar strike and began reconnecting.

The live-fire events included a variety of systems, with 155mm rounds fired from an M777 at a Marine-provided target and data from those strikes sent back to Marine Corps systems; some 20 types of sensors, including drones, electronic-warfare systems, and Stryker vehicles, fed information into NGC2.

United States, Fort Carson, Colorado

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