Army Awards Enterprise Contract for Counter-UAS Capabilities

The Army has selected Anduril’s Lattice software as the command and control backbone for a $87 million counter-drone task order, the first in a $20 billion enterprise deal. The contract will enable distributed detection, tracking, classification, and engagement of UAS threats in seconds. This follows a broader, firm-fixed-price contract to consolidate current and future commercial solutions into a unified capability. The Army aims to leverage its buying power at an enterprise scale to yield billions in taxpayer savings and streamline acquisition processes. The contract was announced under Joint Interagency Task Force 401, an inter-service entity tasked with developing solutions to thwart drones for the entire Department of Defense. This is the latest in the Army’s push for enterprise contracts, which will allow the Army to be more flexible in getting capabilities to soldiers with less administrative burden. The Army has awarded 14 enterprise contracts consolidating 118 separate contracts over the last eight months, resulting in an 88 percent reduction in the total number of contracts. Anduril’s commercially available technology is now available to the entire DoD, and the service is on the hunt for another enterprise contract winner.