Anduril Industries

Anduril starts building Fury at its Ohio mega-factory in March 2026, months earlier than the planned July start. The line can produce up to 150 aircraft per year at full three-shift capacity, with Roadrunner, Barracuda, and a classified platform to follow by year-end.

The Army awards Anduril a $20B ceiling enterprise vehicle (March 14, 2026, running to 2036) consolidating Lattice command-and-control software, hardware, and data infrastructure. The first $87M task order makes Lattice the tactical C2 backbone for Joint Interagency Task Force 401's counter-drone mission.

The Space Force names Anduril among 12 companies sharing OTA agreements worth up to $3.2B to prototype space-based interceptors for the Golden Dome missile-defense shield, with demonstrations targeted by 2028. Anduril leads a team including Impulse Space, K2 Space, Voyager Technologies, and Sandia National Laboratories.

On June 17, 2026 the Air Force awards Anduril and General Atomics engineering, manufacturing development, and production contracts for the first operational Collaborative Combat Aircraft — at least 150 jets combined by the end of the decade, at a target price near $30M each. The award came four months ahead of schedule.

On July 15, 2026 Anduril and the Department of War sign a framework agreement to hyper-scale production of the air-launched Barracuda-500, a low-cost, software-defined stand-off strike munition. The two-phase deal is meant to lead to procurement of thousands of missiles per year over roughly seven years, with initial deliveries in 2027; Barracuda output is slated to move to the Arsenal-1 factory in Ohio later in the year.

On July 20, 2026 at the Farnborough International Airshow, Anduril and Archer Aviation unveiled a jointly-developed autonomous, series hybrid-electric tilt-rotor VTOL platform. Anduril's defense variant, 'Thunder' — a Group 5 autonomous attack rotorcraft — is designed as a pilotless 'loyal wingman' to fly in formation with crewed helicopters such as the AH-64 Apache and MV-75, cruising above 200 knots with a range of thousands of nautical miles; Archer's commercial variant is called 'Halo.' The companies said they have flown multiple test flights with full-scale surrogate aircraft, with first flight of the production Thunder planned for 2027.

Anduril announces a $1B, 5-million-square-foot 'hyperscale' weapons factory at Rickenbacker International Airport near Columbus, Ohio, expected to create over 4,000 jobs. Arsenal-1 is designed to mass-produce autonomous systems the way automakers build cars.

Microsoft hands Anduril its troubled $22B IVAS contract for ~120,000 Army mixed-reality headsets (announced February, novation approved April 10). In May, Anduril and Meta announce a partnership on military XR devices, reuniting Luckey with the company that fired him — yielding the EagleEye headset family unveiled at AUSA in October.

Anduril's CCA prototype makes its semi-autonomous maiden flight on October 31, 2025 in California — 556 days from clean-sheet design to first flight. The aircraft executed its mission plan and managed flight controls on its own, with an operator directing the landing.

The Royal Australian Navy signs a A$1.7B (~US$1.1B) program of record for a fleet of Ghost Shark extra-large autonomous submarines to be delivered over five years. Anduril opens a Sydney factory in October and delivers the first production Ghost Shark in November, ahead of schedule.

The Air Force picks Anduril and General Atomics to build and fly Collaborative Combat Aircraft prototypes for Increment 1, eliminating Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman. Anduril's entry becomes the YFQ-44A Fury — a startup designing a combat jet alongside the industry's biggest primes.

Anduril reveals Roadrunner and Roadrunner-M, twin-turbojet VTOL aircraft that can intercept drones and missiles and — if not expended — land and be refueled for reuse. The company says it went from napkin sketch to fieldable system in under two years.

US Special Operations Command selects Anduril from 12 bidders as its counter-unmanned-systems systems-integration partner under an IDIQ worth roughly $1B running to 2032. It is the company's largest contract to date and cements its counter-drone franchise.

The Air Force adds Anduril to the Advanced Battle Management System effort with an indefinite-delivery contract worth up to $950M, an early validation of Lattice as military 'internet of things' infrastructure for Joint All-Domain Command and Control.

Anduril's first product, the autonomous Sentry surveillance tower running Lattice, is piloted with US Customs and Border Protection. CBP later makes the system a program of record, and over 290 towers are deployed along the southern border by 2023.

Palmer Luckey — recently ousted from Facebook after founding Oculus — starts Anduril with Palantir alumni Brian Schimpf, Trae Stephens, Matt Grimm, and Joe Chen. The company sets out to bring Silicon Valley product velocity to defense, betting on autonomous systems and software over exquisite manned platforms.