A second field test of the Army’s next-generation command and control prototype starts Monday, just three months after the Army awarded Anduril the contract to build it.

The 4th Infantry Division will kick off Ivy Sting 2 at Fort Carson, Colo., where soldiers will test how the system handles deconflicting airspace before firing weapons and other scenarios.

“How can we have the commanders doing their updates, doing their planning, but more importantly, how can we then enact that plan and shorten the time it takes to conduct fires?” Zach Kramer, head of Anduril’s mission command office, told Defense One.

The Army is also trying to shorten the time it takes to develop this system, and the ones that come after it.

“So we're not waiting to create some sort of perfect system and roll

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