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Space Force Awards Anduril $100 Million To Network Space Surveillance Sites

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, November 21st, 2024

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Space Force Awards Anduril $100 Million To Network Space Surveillance Sites

Space Surveillance Complex in Maui, Hawaii. Photo: U.S. Space Force

Anduril Industries on Thursday said that U.S. Space Force has awarded the company a potential $99.7 million contract to provide its Lattice operating system as a mesh networking capability for a ground-based network of sensors that track objects in space. The five-year indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract marks a transition of Anduril’s work in helping to modernize the U.S. Space Surveillance Network into a program of record, the company’s first in the space arena. For the Space Domain Awareness Network (SDANet) program,…

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