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Army

Anduril, Meta Team For Army’s IVAS Follow-On, Offering New EagleEye Capability

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, May 29th, 2025

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Anduril, Meta Team For Army’s IVAS Follow-On, Offering New EagleEye Capability

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: Anduril

Anduril Industries has teamed with Meta [META] for its bid to compete for the Army’s next version of its mixed-reality headset, the companies said Thursday. The new partnership is a major step for Meta in working on weapons technology and will include developing a range of integrated “Extended Reality” (XR) products for the military. Anduril founder Palmer Luckey noted the effort will begin with offering the new EagleEye capability for the Army’s Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC) program. “EagleEye is…not…

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