Anduril Selected To Provide Software For Autonomous Drone Swarms

[Last week], the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) announced that Anduril has been selected to deliver collaborative mission autonomy software that will coordinate thousands of uncrewed and autonomous assets across the Joint Force in communications and GNSS denied environments. Under DIU’s Autonomous Collaborative Teaming (ACT) contract, Anduril’s Lattice for Mission Autonomy™ software platform will enable multi-domain autonomous assets acquired through the Department’s Replicator initiative to execute collaborative autonomous tasks, unlocking new concepts of employment that enable the Joint Force to regain affordable mass with teams of low-cost autonomous systems.

The Department of Defense’s Replicator initiative has dramatically accelerated the development, production, acquisition, and fielding of affordable, attritable autonomous systems, including loitering munitions, autonomous air and surface vehicles, counter-UAS systems, and more. To employ those systems effectively, however, the Department needs a mission autonomy solution that can effectively coordinate thousands of uncrewed assets in a shared environment, including environments where navigation and communications are disrupted or denied.

Working in partnership with a variety of mission partners from both government and industry, Lattice for Mission Autonomy will support Replicator systems across domains, enabling warfighters to operate intelligent, collaborative teams of autonomous systems. Anduril will deploy Lattice for Mission Autonomy’s open architecture to enable the rapid integration of large numbers of disparate autonomous systems - including both Anduril and third-party platforms - into a common mission autonomy software baseline. Once integrated into Lattice™, an operator will be able to unify a group of systems’ sensors, control systems, payloads, and weapons, enabling the operator to then task that team to conduct a variety of collaborative missions such as area search, target tracking and interception, signal relay, simultaneous arrival, strike, and more.

Mission autonomy represents a major shift in defense capability from a manpower-intensive, hardware-defined military, to one that is software-centric and defined by affordable mass. By composing systems from across the Services into collaborative teams, Lattice will help establish the mission autonomy baseline for the entire Joint Force, dramatically extending reach, capabilities, and situational awareness. And, by providing warfighters with a mission engine that automates critical command and control functions, Lattice will provide distributed operators with a scalable battle network in line with modern Joint warfighting concepts.

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