Anduril and Archer unveiled Thunder, an autonomous tiltrotor built to fly beside Apaches after lessons from Ukraine made attack helicopters some of the most exposed platforms on the battlefield.
NATO is testing the $61 billion startup's AI software as the data backbone for air operations across 32 nations, with one of three platforms winning long-term implementation.
DEFCON AI won a five-year, $115M deal to be the Marines' logistics-software integration prime — its job is to force rival vendors' systems, Palantir's Maven and Anduril's Lattice among them, to interoperate.
At Operation Jailbreak, six firms wired a radar 'Hunter' and a gun-armed 'Killer' into one autonomous counter-drone kill chain in under a week, the Army's argument that it can integrate at software speed.
Elbit America has pulled Anduril onto its SIGMA bid for the U.S. Army's self-propelled howitzer contest, a sign the program could turn on autonomy and networking as much as on the cannon.