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Anduril Nabs Record Award to Provide Counter UAS Capabilities to USSOCOM

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, February 1st, 2022

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Anduril Nabs Record Award to Provide Counter UAS Capabilities to USSOCOM

Anduril Industries' AI-based Sentry Tower autonomous surveillance systems. Photo: Anduril

U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) last month awarded Anduril Industries a nearly $1 billion contract, the company’s largest ever, to act as a systems integrator for the command’s counter-unmanned aircraft systems (CUxS) capability needs worldwide. Under the $967.6 million contract, which was awarded on Jan. 19, California-based Anduril will provide its Lattice platform, an artificial intelligence-based operating system that works with the company’s and third-party vendors’ sensors and counter-measures to detect, track, identify and defeat drone threats. The open, interoperable…

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