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Anduril's $3.7B Arsenal-2 shipyard at Sparrows Point is meant to build Virginia-class submarine parts, starting with torpedo tubes, under a Navy deal worth up to $2.9B. The president's talk of drone subs and a 40% taxpayer stake doesn't appear in any official release.
Read the story →Northrop's company-funded YFQ-48A Talon Blue flew itself from taxi to landing at Mojave on Oct. 3, about 15 months after concept, and it now goes after an Air Force CCA Increment 2 competition whose requirements are still undefined.
An AFRL lab at Eglin spent four days checking Anduril's Barracuda-M cruise missiles against 14 domains of the Air Force's open weapon architecture and found them compliant. It is a test of whether "modular" can be proven by someone other than the vendor.
NORTHCOM's fourth Falcon Peak exercise at Yuma Proving Ground ran at least 20 vendors through border-focused counter-drone tests, the first with Anduril's Lattice as the baseline and the test organization hosting it.
The Marine Corps hand-picked Anduril for a $15.7M sole-source deal to arm its ACVs with Pulsar-L jammers, landing the same week NORTHCOM ran its fourth counter-drone exercise and previewed its first urban test.
The Royal Navy's XV Excalibur became the first uncrewed underwater vehicle to fire a US Mk 48 Heavyweight Torpedo, a milestone AUKUS test that sets up the Anduril Dive-XL-based Project CUTLASS.
The Air Force christened the FQ-42 'Vengeance' and FQ-44 'Fury' at AFA, but Anduril says its self-funded Ohio plant can't begin CCA production without FY27 money, and a continuing resolution is holding spending at FY26 levels.
The Army has narrowed its IFPC Increment 2 interceptor competition to Lockheed Martin and a Boeing-Anduril team, dropping Rafael's US arm as the program moves toward a competitive demonstration to fill the air-defense gap below Patriot and THAAD.
The Army's TITAN ground-station program has left prototyping for full production, with Anduril taking a $65M hardware slice to build eight new mobile intelligence nodes alongside Palantir's software lead.
Iran's IRGC Navy captured a malfunctioning US Navy Anduril Dive-LD underwater drone at the Strait of Hormuz on September 8, hours after CENTCOM sank five IRGC tankers in an escalating maritime confrontation.
After GAO dismissed its protest, Anduril gets a second shot at the hardware track of DHS's $1.5B counter-UAS IDIQ — a move that could make it only the second vendor, with Leidos, to sit on both tracks of the five-year framework.
DHS split a five-year, up to $1.5 billion department-wide counter-UAS contract into two tracks, naming Anduril, BAE Systems, CACI, Leidos and eight other firms as awardees after fielding more than 100 competing proposals.
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