Anduril Industries, the high-tech defense and border protection company founded by Palmer Luckey, is one of 15 companies awarded Air Force contracts that could be worth up to $950 million each to develop a sensor-based system across all branches of the military, the Defense Department said.
The companies will “compete for future efforts” to develop the “Joint All Domain Command and Control system,” according to a DOD announcement.
“Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) is the Department of Defense’s concept to connect sensors from all of the military services—Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and Space Force—into a single network,” according to the Congressional Research Service.
The DOD announcement said the work is designed to lead to “a unified force across all domains — air, land, sea, space, cyber and electromagnetic spectrum — in an open architecture family of systems.”
In a posting on his Twitter feed, Luckey said the contracts are part of the Advanced Battle Management System, which the Air Force calls “an innovative and evolving approach to joint warfighting.”
