The State Department has approved the request of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the U.S. to procure Altius 600M-V unmanned aerial vehicles and related equipment for approximately $300 million. The possible foreign military sale to Taiwan includes 291 Altius 600M-V systems, Altius 600 inert training UAVs, Pneumatic Integrat...
The U.S. Marine Corps has awarded AeroVironment (Nasdaq: AVAV), Anduril Industries and Teledyne FLIR positions on a potential eight-year, $249 million contract to build, test, support and deliver a non-developmental item loitering munition system designed to provide dismounted Marines in the infantry rifle squad with precision strike capability agai...
Steven Williams, formerly vice president of business development at L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), has been named VP of growth at Anduril Industries, according to his LinkedIn post. The three-decade industry veteran will support the development of the growth teams at the Irvine, California-headquartered defense technology contractor. Prior to jo...
A Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) subsidiary has secured a $178.4 million contract from the U.S. Army to develop a next-generation intelligence ground station system for collecting and disseminating sensor data. Palantir USG will build five basic and five advanced variants of the Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node ground station system, ...
Keith Flynn, formerly senior vice president of product and engineering at Glydways, has taken on the newly created role of SVP of manufacturing at Anduril Industries. He will help scale the production of autonomous systems for domestic and international customers and lead a team of 200 engineers and technicians across the U.S. and Australia, Anduril...
Anduril Industries has acquired Adranos in a transaction that makes the Costa Mesa, California-based defense technology company a solid rocket motor supplier to principal contractors providing missiles, hypersonics and other propulsion technologies for some of the major programs of the Department of Defense. Established in 2015, Mississippi-based Ad...
Neil Thurgood, a 37-year U.S. Army veteran, has been appointed to a senior vice president role at defense technology provider Anduril Industries. Anduril said Tuesday the retired Army lieutenant general will lead the company’s strategy for addressing capability priorities related to counter-unmanned air systems, air and missile defense, tactic...
The U.S. government appears to be favoring the expansion of surveillance technology deployments along the border with the inclusion of funds for autonomous surveillance towers and other border security platforms in an omnibus budget package, The Washington Post reported Friday. On Thursday, Congress approved and sent to the White House a $1.5 trilli...
Anduril Industries has purchased Boston-based autonomous underwater vehicle manufacturer Dive Technologies in a strategy to add undersea coverage to the defense technology provider’s portfolio of unmanned systems. Terms of the deal were not disclosed and the acquired company’s DIVE-LD platform can be tailored to match military requiremen...
Anduril Industries has purchased Copious Imaging for an undisclosed sum to further expand its family of counter-unmanned aircraft systems and force protection platforms with the addition of the latter’s passive sensing technology. Copious Imaging is a Lexington, Massachusetts-based technology company that spun off from MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory i...
