ANDURIL INDUSTRIES INKS CONTRACT FOR COUNTER-DRONE AI TECH

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The Pentagon's Silicon Valley outreach arm awarded Anduril Industries a five-year contract worth up to $99 million that makes the company's counter-drone artificial intelligence technology available across the military, the company announced July 27. The award from the Defense Innovation Unit will provide the military with counter-unmanned aircraft system capabilities that can defend forces from "hobby drones to those flown by state actors," according to the defense technology company. The technology uses the company's Lattice artificial intelligence operating system and a network of sensors to autonomously detect, classify and track targets. The deal will allow the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps to purchase the counter-drone solutions as a service, meaning Anduril will manage and sustain the systems. Anduril's suite of autonomous cUAS solutions ingests sur-veillance data to detect, track and alert military users to potential threats. That system has been used for base security at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. Anduril Chief Revenue Officer Matthew Steckman said service contracts allow customers to take advantage of continuous innovations to "keep pace with the threat that state and nonstate unmanned systems present."