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

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, ...