The new office wants to speed up the development of new ideas, increases the competition for businesses, and keeps soldiers involved throughout.

A new Army organization aims to meld service leaders’ mandates to cut bureaucracy and adopt a venture-capital mindset with their push to turn soldiers’ ideas into manufactured gear.

The Army is treating 2026 as a make-or-break year for its Next Generation Command and Control system, a software driven architecture meant to knit sensors, shooters, and decision makers into a single, ...