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Battle Road Digital

Battle Road won the USD 40M NGC core simulation engine contract and now sits inside NGC core services alongside Palantir. Its game-tech and cloud-native DNA represents the exact type of firm traditional simulation incumbents can underestimate.

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Company Snapshot

HeadquartersMeridian, Idaho
OwnershipPrivate
Key contractUSD 40M NGC core simulation engine (July 2025)
Talent signalAWS Game Tech, Xbox, SimSpace Weaver backgrounds

Key Figures

USD 40M

NGC contract value

Atom Engine

Core simulation engine

Palantir

Data fabric partner (Foundry)

Cloud-native

Architecture approach

NGC = Next Generation Combat Vehicle Simulation

Leadership Watch

Josh HendersonFounder/CEO, game-tech-to-defense profile
Brent ElmerCo-founder/CPO, product architecture focus
Eric EdelmanVP Engineering, deep technical execution

Estimated program values for active U.S. Army simulation and training contracts. These programs represent the competitive landscape where CAE's defense segment must win or defend share. The TSS/TMT program is the largest orchestration-layer contract and is critical to CAE's U.S. defense strategy [1][2].

U.S. Army Program Budget Landscape

TSS = Training Support ServicesTMT = Training Management ToolRVCT = Rotary-Wing Virtual Collective TrainingOWT = One World TerrainSVT = Synthetic Virtual TrainingNGC = Next Generation Combat vehicle simulationOTA = Other Transaction Authority

Key Events

Jul 2025

NGC USD 40M contract awarded

U.S. Army awards Battle Road the core simulation engine contract for NGC constructive simulation

2025

Scarlet Dragon 25-3 experimentation

PEO STRI conducts NGC experimentation using Atom Engine paired with Palantir Foundry as data fabric

NGC = Next Generation Combat Vehicle Simulation

Assessment

Battle Road is cloud-native and game-tech-rooted, arriving from outside the classic defense-sim culture. Paired with Palantir Foundry as the data fabric in Scarlet Dragon 25-3, the Atom Engine now forms part of NGC core services. CAE should read this as a live constructive stack forming around other players.

NGC = Next Generation Combat Vehicle Simulation