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Tysons, Va. — LMI today announced the commercial launch of SHEPRD™, a digital platform that enables military protection cells to anticipate and manage threats to critical battlefield assets, including troops. SHEPRD was successfully demonstrated during Ivy Sting 5, a simulated operational combat exercise led by the U.S. Army’s 4th Infantry Division to evaluate emerging technologies as part of the Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) initiative.

During the exercise, held at Fort Carson, Colo., SHEPRD provided protection cells — teams responsible for safeguarding personnel, equipment, and operations against enemy targeting — with a real-time operating picture that integrated threat data, asset locations, terrain effects, and protection coverage into a single app environment. The platform demonstrated rapid visualization of risk, synchronized protection measures, and adjustment of posture as conditions changed.

Protection cells often operate in secure environments, where availability of emerging technologies lags. This creates a reliance on manual processes and the reconciliation of data across multiple systems, spreadsheets, and planning documents.

As a platform operating within the Army’s NGC2 enterprise environment, SHEPRD brings protection planning, analysis, and execution into a single system. It introduces capabilities such as 3D modeling and automated, risk-based prioritization of protection requirements, giving protection cells a clear view of assets, threats, and coverage within a secure environment. This allows teams to holistically prioritize assets and identify emerging risks as conditions evolve.

“During Ivy Sting, we saw how quickly protection conditions can change and how hard it is for teams to stay aligned using manual processes,” said Allen Rivers, LMI SHEPRD Platform Lead. “SHEPRD gives protection cells a shared, real-time view of assets, threats, and coverage so they can adjust their posture and make decisions without delay.”

SHEPRD is part of LMI’s broader work supporting the Army’s modernization effort. During the Ivy Sting 5 exercise, the platform successfully operated within the Army’s IL6 (SIPRNet) environment and integrated with other emerging technologies currently under evaluation.

“Ivy Sting is designed to test technology in operational conditions,” said Jared Summers, Chief Technology Officer at LMI. “Seeing SHEPRD perform in that environment validated our confidence that the platform is ready to support protection missions as the Army modernizes command and control. Now, we’re looking ahead to Project Convergence Capstone 6 this summer.”

“LMI focuses on building technology that works in the environments where missions actually happen,” said Josh Wilson, Chief Executive Officer of LMI. “SHEPRD reflects that, bringing data, analytics, and operational context together in contested domains to help commanders better protect the people and assets that make the mission possible.”

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