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Unmanned Systems

Anduril Nabs Record Award To Provide Counter-UAS To SOCOM

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, January 24th, 2022

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Anduril Nabs Record Award To Provide Counter-UAS To SOCOM

Brian Schimpf, co-founder and CEO, Anduril Industries. Photo: Anduril

U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) last week 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 (C-UAS) 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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