Autonomous Air Defense Production

December 1, 2024

Anduril Industries
Orange County, CA
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Anduril Industries has been awarded a $249,978,466 contract to deliver advanced air defense capabilities across services for the Department of Defense (DoD). This contract will deliver more than 500 Roadrunner-Ms and additional Pulsar electronic warfare capabilities, addressing the growing threat of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) attacks against U.S. forces. Deliveries began in the fourth quarter of 2024 and will continue through the end of 2025.

Anduril’s Roadrunner system, a high-explosive vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) interceptor unveiled last year, has been developed to rapidly intercept and neutralize larger UAS threats. The twin-jet powered autonomous air vehicle has a modular payload system that can carry a variety of payloads to accomplish broad sets of missions

Paired with Anduril’s Pulsar family of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled electronic warfare (EW) systems, the new Roadrunner UAS defense capability will be deployed to operational sites in priority regions where U.S. forces face significant UAS threats, further enhancing U.S. air defense capabilities at the tactical edge. Pulsar is a first-of-its-kind family of modular, multi-mission-capable EW systems that utilize artificial intelligence at the tactical edge to rapidly identify and defeat current and future threats across the electromagnetic spectrum, including small and medium-size drones.

Additionally, Pulsar integrates a software-defined radio, graphics processing unit, and additional diverse computer processing power into a compact and powerful capability that enables radio frequency machine learning (RFML) to rapidly identify and adapt to emerging threats at the edge. The system supports a range of capabilities as a multi-mission EW solution, including electronic countermeasures, counter-unmanned systems, electronic support, electronic attack, direction finding, geolocation, and other advanced EW capabilities.

Roadrunner has been operationally deployed for Combat Evaluation since January 2024 and Pulsar has been operationally deployed in multiple regions since August 2023. Roadrunner went from an idea to a combat-validated and fieldable solution in less than two years, much faster than most traditional contractor timelines. As the world’s first recoverable explosive weapon, Roadrunner exemplifies the next-generation capability required to confront the increasingly complex threat landscape.

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