Anduril wins up to $1.8B to take Army command software to I Corps

Anduril Industries won a United States Army contract with a $162.8 million initial period and options that could lift its value to $1.8 billion over five years. Announced October 5, the award will move the Army’s Next-Generation Command and Control data layer from division-scale tests toward operational fielding with I Corps in the Pacific.

Anduril’s Lattice software sits beneath the applications soldiers use. Its job is to make data from sensors, vehicles, weapons and software built by different vendors available through a common architecture. The design is meant to let the Army add new tools without rebuilding the underlying data layer for each supplier.

The Army said prototyping with the 4th and 25th Infantry Divisions helped define the software and requirements it now plans to scale. Anduril said a spring exercise connected more than 2,500 soldier devices and supported dozens of applications on the same network, including tools that exchanged information across military services.

I Corps raises the difficulty: it oversees four divisions whose Pacific operations can span thousands of miles and face intermittent communications. Anduril is providing the shared data layer, not every application above it. The Army separately awarded approximately $93.6 million of initial one-year application contracts to nine vendors and said the wider ecosystem also includes Palantir, Raft and Striveworks.

The Army award is separate from Anduril’s subsequent Navy contract worth up to $2.9 billion for submarine components. Together, the two contract ceilings total $4.7 billion, but that isn’t cash already earned: most of the Army total consists of options, while Reuters reported that Navy payments are tied to production outcomes.