{"id":2330,"date":"2026-02-05T07:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T07:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/?p=2330"},"modified":"2026-02-05T07:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T07:37:06","slug":"us-army-awards-persistent-systems-contract-for-87-5-million-supporting-next-generation-command-and-control-prototype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/?p=2330","title":{"rendered":"US Army Awards Persistent Systems Contract for $87.5 Million Supporting Next-Generation Command and Control Prototype"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t<center><em>Contract marks a total of $121.5 million awarded to company for NGC2 prototype<\/em><\/center><strong>NEW YORK, Feb. 4, 2026<\/strong> \u2014 Persistent Systems, LLC (\u201cPersistent\u201d), a leader in mobile ad hoc network (MANET) technology, announced that the U.S. Army\u2019s Capability Program Executive Command, Control, Communications, and Network (CPE C3N) has submitted a second order of $87.5 million for MANET devices, as part of the transport layer for Next-Generation Command and Control (NGC2) prototype.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This second order is a follow-on to the $34 million contract the company received in October. The follow-on award will incrementally add capability for Army prototypes of NGC2. Together, these awards total $121.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the transport layer, we are responsible for moving all the 1s and 0s across the battlefield, so data reaches the warfighter who needs it, when they need it,\u201d said Jon Patrick, Vice President of Business Development at Persistent.<\/p>\n<p>Faster information delivery times and more reliable access to data enable faster, more efficient decisions, streamlining command and control (C2). The MANET radio continues to demonstrate it can serve as part of the transport layer, with the speed, resilience, and capacity required for combat operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the Army has presented us with increasingly demanding benchmarks, our team continues to deliver highly resilient transport that can empower an armored division on the move,\u201d said Dr. Herbert Rubens, Founder and CEO of Persistent Systems. \u201cWe\u2019re proud to provide a commercial solution that supports the Army\u2019s transport layer and strengthens the warfighter at echelon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the coming months, deliveries will be underway as Persistent looks forward to empowering the Army with the most advanced communications technology, shaping the Army\u2019s future network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"postmetadata alt\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<small><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThis entry was posted<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ton Thursday, February 5th, 2026 at 07:00\t\t\t\t\t\tand is filed under <a href=\"https:\/\/soldiersystems.net\/category\/army\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Army<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/soldiersystems.net\/category\/c5isr\/\" rel=\"category tag\">C5ISR<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/soldiersystems.net\/category\/comms\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Comms<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/soldiersystems.net\/category\/contracts\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Contracts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/soldiersystems.net\/category\/press-release\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Press Release<\/a>.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tYou can follow any responses to this entry through the <a href=\"https:\/\/soldiersystems.net\/2026\/02\/05\/us-army-awards-persistent-systems-contract-for-87-5-million-supporting-next-generation-command-and-control-prototype\/feed\/\">RSS 2.0<\/a> feed.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBoth comments and pings are currently closed.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/small>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contract marks a total of $121.5 million awarded to company for NGC2 prototypeNEW YORK, Feb. 4, 2026 \u2014 Persistent Systems, LLC (\u201cPersistent\u201d), a leader in mobile ad hoc network (MANET) technology, announced that the U.S. Army\u2019s Capability Program Executive Command, Control, Communications, and Network (CPE C3N) has submitted a second order of $87.5 million for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-army"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2332,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions\/2332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}