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Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries

Anduril builds AI platforms to protect troops, fight wildfires, perform search & rescue missions, and provide border surveillance. It was founded in 2017 and is located in Irvine, California.

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Anduril calls itself an AI product company. It states that it is dedicated to solving national security challenges, such as protecting troops, fighting wildfires, performing search & rescue missions and conducting border surveillance. The company was founded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey, who previously invented Oculus Rift virtual reality (VR) headsets. Venture capitalist Peter Thiel provided support.

Product

Anduril’s system consists of towers, called Sentry Towers, with radar, communications antennae, and a laser-enhanced cameras, which can detect motions within a 2-mile radius. It works in conjunction with the company's software called Lattice AI. There is also a drone product called Ghost UAS, which is an autonomous drone that can be used for mapping new territory. Testing Lattice in Texas has been reported by US Customs and Border Protection to catch fifty-five unauthorized border crossers in a ten-week period.

The company's product can be considered “virtual border wall” technology for surveillance at the US-Mexico border, which merges VR with surveillance tools to create a digital wall of “all-seeing eyes, with intelligence to know what it sees.” Wearing the VR headset allows a person to see a digital world that simulates the view of the real world but highlights moving objects that are a mile away and gives the user the likelihood that what they are seeing is a person and an animal.

In 2019, Anduril received a US Marine Corps contract of $13.5 million to cover “autonomous surveillance counter-intrusion capabilities” at Marine Corps bases in Japan, Hawaii and in Yuma, Arizona near the US-Mexico border. Anduril’s Lattice platform is theoretically able to detect human figures using AI. Lattice sentry towers are equipped with arrays of sensors. Anduril also supplies drones to support the Lattice program, which the Marine Corps tested in 2018.

Anduril has been reported to be working on the Pentagon’s controversial Project Maven drone program. Anduril is partnering with the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom to launch autonomous mine-hunting ships.

Other products

Jamie Hyneman of Mythbusters and creator of a robot called Blendo on Robot Wars was hired as a contractor with Anduril to build a remote piloted tank to put out wildfires. There are exterior water sprayers. To prevent electromechanical problems due to heat, a coolant composed of 50/50 glycerin and water sprays continuously over the entire interior. The coolant absorbs the heat and is passed off to the thousand gallons of water in the tanks. The tank is designed to be able to rescue and take passengers.

Lattice OS

Lattice OS is an open operating system designed to work with Anduril's systems to offer a single operating system to control those devices. This includes using autonomous systems to create a real-time understanding of the battlespace, which can be shared among users. This uses technologies like sensor fusion, computer vision, edge computing, and machine learning to detect, track, and classify object of interest in an operator's vicinity.

Further, the platform is open and extensible in order to integrate third-party, legacy, and autonomous systems to work in a single command and control missions. Lattice OS is further able to be integrated and deployed to build a secure mesh network in remote and contested areas. This can allow users to remove a single point of failure, which is associated with traditional hub-and-spoke models. Lattice is capable of autonomous categorization, evaluation, and prioritization for the best path for the flow of information.

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Further Resources

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Anduril Industries acquires Dive Technologies - JEC Group

Thierry SAINT-MARTIN

https://www.jeccomposites.com/news/anduril-industries-acquires-dive-technologies/

Web

Anduril: The Startup Building Surveillance Systems & Drone-Smashers For The Military | NBC News Now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjsfaR-JcyU

October 3, 2019

Behind Anduril's Effort to Create an Operating System for War

Tom Simonite

https://www.wired.com/story/behind-anduril-effort-create-operating-system-war/

Web

October 8, 2020

Inside Anduril, the startup that is building AI-powered military technology

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/inside-anduril-startup-building-ai-powered-military-technology-n1061771

Web

October 3, 2019

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey scores $1 billion-plus valuation for his virtual border wall start-up

Salvador Rodriguez

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/11/anduril-valued-at-1-billion-in-round-including-andreessen-horowitz.html

Web

September 11, 2019

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Company attributes

Industry
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Robotics
Robotics
Counter-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system
Counter-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system
Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR)
Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR)
Defense industry
Defense industry
Geospatial intelligence
Geospatial intelligence
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Common operational picture
Technology
Technology
...
Location
California
California
Orange County, California
Orange County, California
United States
United States
Washington (state)
Washington (state)
Costa Mesa, California
Costa Mesa, California
Irvine, California
Irvine, California
B2X
B2B
B2B
CEO
Brian Schimpf
Brian Schimpf
Founder
Palmer Luckey
Palmer Luckey
-1
AngelList URL
angel.co/company/an...stries/jobs
Legal Name
Anduril Industries, Inc
Legal classification
Incorporation (business)
Incorporation (business)
Date Incorporated
2017
Number of Employees (Ranges)
201 – 500
Number of Employees
100
Full Address
3370 Harbor Blvd, Orange County, CA
1375 Sunflower Ave, Orange County, CA
2722 Michelson Road, Irvine CA
CIK Number
1,782,670
Place of Incorporation
Delaware
Delaware
Investors
Anorak Ventures
Anorak Ventures
Human Capital (venture firm)
Human Capital (venture firm)
The Elephant
The Elephant
‌
Marlinspike Capital
DFJ Growth
DFJ Growth
Long Journey Ventures
Long Journey Ventures
-1
137 Ventures
137 Ventures
Ethos VC
Ethos VC
...
DUNS Number
080788349
Founded Date
2017
Email Address
hello@anduril.com
Phone Number
+19498911607
+12522277013
Total Funding Amount (USD)
2,191,000,000
Latest Funding Round Date
December 2, 2022
Competitors
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Isys Technologies
Rebellion Defense
Rebellion Defense
-1
‌
Ogsystems
Arotech Corporation
Arotech Corporation
‌
Tapatalk
Daric
Daric
‌
Zeltech Systems Ltd
Roboteam
Roboteam
...
Business Model
Commerce
CFO
‌
Michael Galvin
Former CEO
Palmer Luckey
Palmer Luckey
Latest Funding Type
‌
Series E round
Latest Postmoney Valuation
1,700,000,000
NAICS Code
541,512
CAGE Code
85LD7
Patents Assigned (Count)
4
Motto/Tagline
Tomorrow's Defense Today
Wellfound ID
anduril-industries

Other attributes

Company Operating Status
Active
Latest Funding Round Amount (USD)
1,500,000,000
Wikidata ID
Q61918830

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