Anduril Industries and the network connectivity company Aalyria on Tuesday said they have partnered to integrate their respective autonomous technologies to create a strengthened platform for all domain command and control to meet national security needs.
The teaming agreement leverages Anduril’s Lattice open operating platform and Aalyria’s Spacetime network orchestration and management system for mesh networks to create greater situational awareness across the battlespace by resiliently linking thousands of sensors and allowing operators to act.
Lattice is an artificial intelligence-based software platform that enables the large-scale integration of sensors, platforms—particularly robotic systems—and other data sources to provide enhanced situational awareness and increasingly automate missions across the battlespace with human supervision.
The companies said their integrated platform “provides best-in-class capabilities for diverse, resilient, and secure real-time command and control across multiple classification domains, distributed geographies, in the contested environments of today and the future.”
The integrated capability will be demonstrated later this year as part of the Defense Innovation Unit’s Hybrid Space Architecture program that seeks to use commercial and government space assets operating in diverse orbits to deliver secure, assured and low-latency data communications in terrestrial and non-terrestrial applications. DIU in July 2022 awarded Aalyria, Anduril,
Atlas and Enveil contracts for the demonstration.
“Bringing together these two technologies will greatly expand battlefield capabilities, providing self-healing and resilient communications networks that haven’t before been possible,” Aalyria CEO Chris Taylor said in a statement.
The partnership with Aalyria coincides with an announcement Anduril made last week that it is evolving its software platform to Lattice for Mission Autonomy, which the company said will enable large-scale integration and use of autonomous systems under human supervision across the mission cycle to include planning and exercising, execution and post-operational analysis.