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Application Briefs
Autonomous Air Defense Production
Anduril Industries
Orange County, CA
Contact@anduril.com
www.anduril.com
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nduril 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.
www.anduril.com
Army Completes Satellite as a Managed Service Research Project
Intelsat
McLean, VA
melissa.longo@intelsat.com
www.intelsat.com
I
ntelsat has provided the U.S Army with new, flexible, and
fully managed multi-orbit satellite communications (SATCOM)
support, following the completion of the Army's
first-ever multi-vendor SATCOM as a Managed Service (SATaaMS)
Pilot contract.
The SaTaaMS project was launched in early 2024, to help
the Department of Defense (DoD) understand how it can
optimize the way commercial satellite communications
equipment and bandwidth is purchased to support unit
readiness and unique missions in large-scale combat operations.
Instead of the Army having to procure, field, sustain
and modernize equipment on its own for every unit and
every mission, SATaaMS could enable the Army to lease these
capabilities at the point of need. This business model would
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