
U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) last week awarded Anduril Industries a nearly $1 billion contract, the company’s largest ever, to act as a systems integrator for the command’s counter-unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS) capability needs worldwide. Under the $967.6 million contract, which was awarded on Jan. 19, California-based Anduril will provide its Lattice platform, an artificial intelligence-based operating system that works with the company’s and third-party vendors’ sensors and counter-measures to detect, track, identify and defeat drone threats. The open, interoperable…