The American army announced Friday evening that it had signed a 10 year contract with a defense technology startup On the sensor. The deal could be worth up to $20 billion.
According to the announcementthe contract begins with a “base period” of five years, with the option to extend the agreement for an additional five years, and includes Anduril’s hardware, software, infrastructure and services.
The Army describes the agreement as a single enterprise contract consolidating what amounted to “more than 120 separate procurement actions for Anduril’s commercial solutions.”
“The modern battlefield is increasingly defined by software,” Gabe Chiulli, chief technology officer at the Department of Defense’s Office of the Chief Information Officer, said in a statement. “To maintain our advantage, we must be able to acquire and deploy software capabilities quickly and efficiently. »
Anduril was co-founded by Palmer Luckey, previously known for selling VR startup Oculus to Facebook (now Meta). Facebook fired Luckey after controversy erupted following a report that he had donated to a pro-Trump political group.
Luckey has repeatedly insisted that the media misrepresented his political views, but according to a recent article in the New York TimesLuckey and Anduril were adopted by the second Trump administration, thanks to its vision of remaking the US military with autonomous fighter jets, drones, submarines and more. The company (named, like Palantir, for a magical object in “The Lord of the Rings”) generated about $2 billion in revenue last year, according to the New York Times.
Separate reports suggest that Anduril is in talks to raise a new round of financing at a valuation of $60 billion.
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The announcement also comes as the Defense Department grapples with a dispute with Anthropic, with AI company sues DoD for its designation as a supply chain threat following a failed contract negotiation, while OpenAI faced consumer reaction And at least one frame departure after signing its own agreement with the Pentagon.
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