United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has awarded Anduril a three-year, $86,000,000 contract to accelerate the development and deployment of mission autonomy software to multi-domain uncrewed systems in support of USSOCOM missions.
To achieve the benefits of affordable enterprise capability, operators must be able to task teams of diverse, multi-domain autonomous systems to work together and execute a given mission. This requires mission autonomy software capable of integrating and coordinating multiple vehicles’ control systems, sensors, weapons, and other payloads to synchronize effects on the battlefield.
Anduril has developed robust software development, testing, integration, and deployment infrastructure that now sits within Lattice for Mission Autonomy, Anduril’s hardware-agnostic, end-to-end software platform that allows human operators to interact and fight with teams of diverse autonomous systems. As the Mission Autonomy Systems Integration Partner (SIP), Anduril will support USSOCOM in developing their infrastructure, enabling them to integrate, test, validate, and deploy government-owned and commercial mission autonomy software and enabling technology across their robotic platforms. The infrastructure will cover the entire software development lifecycle, including data export and management, data model and interface validation, and system-level verification and validation (V&V), establishing a reliable, interoperable, and trusted foundation for SOCOM to rapidly and continuously integrate collaborative teams of autonomous systems into their operations.
In addition to providing support for the development infrastructure, Anduril will prove out the resulting software across a series of capability demonstrations and integration events over the next several months in advance of operational fielding. As the Mission Autonomy SIP, Anduril will demonstrate how Lattice accelerates the integration and deployment of best-of-breed software and hardware capabilities, enabling a paradigm shift in SOCOM operations that is focused on collaborative mission autonomy and coordinated mass effects.
Since 2022, Anduril has developed, integrated, and deployed hundreds of Anduril, third-party, and government-owned hardware and software capabilities in support of USSOCOM’s CUxS efforts, enabling operators to quickly adapt to new threat profiles across a range of operational environments. Anduril will build on that relationship as Mission Autonomy SIP by providing the infrastructure that will accelerate USSOCOM’s efforts to field and fight with teams of autonomous systems in a constantly changing battlespace, unlocking new and innovative concepts of operation that enhance the effectiveness, capabilities, and situational awareness of globally-deployed SOF.
