Every GovConFeed story on Anduril — contract awards, policy, enforcement, and protests, newest first.
Article fact-checked against GovConWire and Defence Blog. Defense Daily was paywalled, so I removed it and its two quotes and the Oct. 5 date. Inference about the June-to-October follow-on contract was reworded. All other claims trace to the two sources.
Read the story →The Navy awarded Anduril a contract of up to $2.9B, paid on demonstrated output, to back Arsenal-2, a $3.7B privately funded Maryland yard that will build Virginia-class components for Electric Boat and Newport News starting in 2030.
GAO's July 2026 weapons assessment reveals the Army will store nearly 10,000 IVAS 1.0/1.1 goggles after $1.8B in development, pivoting to Anduril's Soldier Borne Mission Command program built on 260,000 hours of soldier feedback.
The Army announced Anduril Industries as lead for the Next Generation Command and Control common data layer baseline, partnering with Palantir and Raft to provide an edge-to-cloud data mesh that will scale to all 11 Army divisions over five years.
Anduril launched ArsenalOS, a unified software platform managing design, production, supply chain, and sustainment across its Arsenal-1 campus near Columbus, Ohio, where Roadrunner, Barracuda, and YFQ-44A Fury are produced on the same reconfigurable floor.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection awarded Anduril Industries a $363 million contract for more than 200 Extended Range Sentry Towers, each standing 80 feet tall and detecting targets at a 12-kilometer range, expanding a border surveillance partnership dating to 2019.
Defense tech VC funding hit $14.6B in the first five months of 2026, topping the 2025 full-year record of $9.6B, as the Pentagon credited a deliberate strategy to recruit private equity and venture capital into the defense industrial base.
Air Force picked Anduril (FQ-44A Fury) and General Atomics (FQ-42A Dark Merlin) for the first CCA production contracts June 17, 2026, bypassing Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman. Three production lots target 150 aircraft by decade-end at under $30M per unit.
CBP awarded Anduril $363M for 200+ autonomous Extended Range Sentry Towers on the southwest border. Awarded December 2025, publicly disclosed June 12, 2026; 40+ units already delivered.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach confirmed September 2026 production start for the Family of Affordable Mass Missiles, with FY2026 funding already covering the first 1,000 rounds and a five-year plan to procure nearly 28,000 weapons.
The State Department approved a $1.98B Foreign Military Sale of Anduril counter-drone systems to Kuwait days after Iran struck Kuwait International Airport, killing one person and injuring more than 60.
The Army's FY2027 budget requests $994M for counter-small unmanned aircraft systems, a 195% jump from $336M in FY2026, with investments spanning Raytheon's Coyote interceptors, AeroVironment's Freedom Eagle, and Anduril's Anvil autonomous platform.
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