# AI Can Process Data Speed Decisions and Reduce Cognitive Burden by United States Army
> "The potential of AI supporting command and control, C2—using tools to rapidly process data, inform commanders’ decisions, speed the fires kill chain, and reduce the cognitive burden on Soldiers—is a major focus of ongoing operational prototyping of Next Generation Command and Control, NGC2."
> **— United States Army**, *December 2025, Army Teams With Industry to Refine AI for Command and Control*
## Sources and Context
- **Direct official source and complete contiguous wording:** [Army Teams With Industry to Refine AI for Command and Control](https://www.army.mil/article/289556/army_teams_with_industry_to_refine_ai_potential_supporting_command_and_control) — The Army describes an operational-prototyping objective for AI-enabled command and control at the edge.
- **Routing classification:** CT-enabling operational exercise discourse. This label describes the quotation's relationship to the counterterrorism technology stack; it does not alter the speaker's wording or claim that every cited system has a direct counterterrorism mission.
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"The potential of AI supporting command and control, C2—using tools to rapidly process data, inform commanders’ decisions, speed the fires kill chain, and reduce the cognitive burden on Soldiers—is a major focus of ongoing operational prototyping of Next Generation Command and Control, NGC2."
— United States Army, December 2025, Army Teams With Industry to Refine AI for Command and Control
https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-ct-architecture-ai-can-process-data-speed-decisions-and-reduce-cognitive-burden
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