A Soldier with Task Force Talon, 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, observes as a missile pallet is lower, during a practice missile reload and unload drill of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Feb. 6, 2019. (Army photo by Capt. Adan Cazarez)
WASHINGTON — Anduril announced today that the Army has awarded the company a contract to develop a Battle Manager prototype, which the company describes as an “integrated command-and-control platform” aimed at defending against various air and missile threats across the Indo-Pacific theater.
The “integrated” portion of the system comes from Anduril’s Lattice software, which would allow the Army to collect and combine information from separate, existing missile-defense systems and transform that data into a comprehensive picture. As the Army operates now, commanders often have to collect information from different systems when creating a comprehensive threat picture, which the service has stated wastes precious time when trying to make quick decisions during a conflict.
“As warfare becomes increasingly data-driven and multi-domain, the number of systems our armed forces rely on will grow exponentially. This is an especially important dynamic in the defense of the Western Pacific — its extant missile-defense systems are composed of a layered mix of systems from across multiple services and domains,” Anduril’s press release read.
