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Army Exercise Demonstrates Anduril’s Platform For Autonomous Operations

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, June 1st, 2023

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Army Exercise Demonstrates Anduril’s Platform For Autonomous Operations

Altius 600M loitering munition. Photo: Anduril

Anduril Industries on Thursday said its artificial intelligence-based open systems operating platform it is evolving to enable large-scale integration of autonomous systems was successfully demonstrated by an integrated team of four small, fixed-wing unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) at a recent Army experimental demonstration. The demonstration included three of Anduril’s ALTIUS-600s and one Textron [TXT] Aerosonde HQ, which can take-off and land vertically, that were integrated with Lattice for Mission Autonomy during the Experimental Demonstration Gateway Exercise (EDGE) at Yuma Proving…

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