Anduril Industries on Wednesday said its Lattice open solutions platform and other company hardware and software were used to help enable geographically distributed command and control (C2) during the recent multi-domain, multi-national Valiant Shield joint field exercise.
In addition to Lattice for C2, which tied together command, control, communications, computing (C4) at “dozens of locations” globally, Anduril provided its Menace family of expeditionary C4 solutions that support geographically distributed operations in denied and degraded communications at the tactical edge.
Anduril provided six platforms equipped with Menace, including an ultra-light tactical vehicle (ULTV) “that provides correlation, common operating pictures, and machine to machine tasking across multiple geographies by connecting service locations in other geographies,” the company said.
Last December, Anduril unveiled Menace-X, which is integrated onto a Polaris [PII] MRZR buggy for deployment, and rapid redeployment, in austere and contested environments. Menace gives warfighters the ability to receive multi-domain sensor data at the tactical level to task targets and prosecute missions. Anduril also supplied Menace-I, a containerized variant of the system the company says “is designed to support classified mission planning with reduced transportation and logistical requirements.”
The biennial Valiant Shield exercise was hosted by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) and included allied and partner forces from June 7-18 on Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, and at sea around the Mariana Island Range Complex.
Tom Keane, senior vice president of engineering at Anduril, said the use of Lattice and Menace enabled “a truly scalable battle network that transforms the joint warfighting effort. Valiant Shield represents one of the largest distributed mesh computing, communications, command and control infrastructure ever assembled, demonstrating the power of software, hardware and partners coming together to solve a highly complex problem where existing off-the-shelf technologies are insufficient.”