Its proprietary Advanced Rapid Prototyping system claims to offer clients a 12 to 30 month acceleration from concept to first flight. It also hinges on the design and manufacturing expertise that Blue Force has built in its decade-plus history.īlue Force is a Boeing-certified composites and special tooling supplier. The Blue Force Technologies acquisition fits because it goes beyond Anduril’s acquisition of Fury and securing a place in the full-size drone market (where Fury could potentially serve a variety of mission applications outside of Red Air). If moving fast means acknowledging that there’s a phenomenal team that has done the work to produce a capability that we believe we have something to offer in terms of software. If moving fast means building something ourselves, we’ll do that. “One of the organizing principles of Anduril since we became a company was to move fast. While Christian Brose didn’t offer details on the amount of components Anduril builds in-house for its systems versus supplier-built components which it assembles and integrates, he did explain that moving forward quickly with acquisition of companies like Blue Force and Adranos to gain their technology and eventual production capacity is in keeping with Anduril’s expansion philosophy. Not surprisingly, this doesn’t compare with behemoth defense manufacturers like Oshkosh Defense or, more to the point, with the capacity of established UAS builders like Kratos Defense. A company blog-post from last year cites manufacturing facilities across six locations in Southern California, Massachusetts, and Georgia totaling nearly 150,000 sq. However, Anduril’s manufacturing capacity is still relatively modest.
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Anduril’s company-launching counter UAS and counter intrusion (border security) systems are evidence he says, adding that it has always been important to Anduril “to be able to marry hardware and software so that we’re always in a position to provide solutions to the government rather than just components.”
“From day one, we’ve been working both hardware and software,” Anduril’s chief strategy officer, Christian Brose, maintains.
The company’s June acquisition of solid rocket motor maker Adranos points to one of the areas Anduril is interested in and to its intent to play in the hardware arena as well as the AI/software field. Marrying the hardware above with its AI-enabled fusion/command systems puts Anduril in a good position to compete for both the vehicle and C2 system sides of the mass autonomous combat system (drone) acquisitions the Pentagon is poised to undertake with its Replicator program and other efforts.Īnduril founder Palmer Luckey has recently discussed his company’s ambitions for expansion in the press, telling Breaking Defense that he essentially wants to compete with defense primes like Lockheed Martin LMT, Boeing or Kratos by growing to similar size, asserting that, “You have to fight and win across multiple areas.” That’s the kind of integration approach Anduril has sought to capitalize on, bringing its proprietary Lattice artificial intelligence operating system to bear on autonomous flight vehicles and its Mission Autonomy platform to unmanned vehicle command and control (C2).
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