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Defence technology company Anduril has reached a significant milestone in its expansion into the Asia-Pacific region, announcing the signature of three memorandums of understanding (MOU) with three leading Japanese businesses.
Anduril has announced it will partner with Sumitomo Aero-Systems Corporation, Itochu, and another prominent Japanese trading company to pursue innovative ideas, enhancing the relationship with the Japanese Ministry of Defense.
David Goodrich OAM, executive chairman and chief executive officer of Anduril Asia Pacific, welcomed this announcement, saying, “It’s a great honour for us to partner with these three esteemed Japanese trading houses across the Anduril portfolio of products.”
The company’s specialty, building cutting-edge defence technology quickly, will work hand in glove with Japan’s internationally renowned reputation for innovation, quality, and attention to detail. These new partnerships represent the beginning of an exciting collaboration that will provide innumerable benefits for Japan, and Indo-Pacific security, more broadly.
Anduril has a diverse range of autonomous products and capabilities that will work extremely well for Japan’s unique requirements in realising its vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific region.
Sumitomo noted, “We are pleased to become a strong supporting role in the development of Anduril’s business and intend to be a strong long-term partner. For both Anduril and Sumitomo, this is an opportunity to contribute enhancement of new capabilities for Japan Self Defense Force. In particular, command and control in joint operation is becoming extremely important, and we believe that Anduril’s Lattice OS core capabilities such as JADC2 and hardware agnostic will contribute to the Japan Self Defense Force’s future fighting capabilities.”
Anduril has a strong reputation developing defence solutions across all domains: land, air, sea, space, and cyber. Products capabilities include Counter UAS, Maritime Counter Intrusion, Ghost sUAS, ALTIUS, and Dive-LD. Anduril brings a “software first” approach to defense technology with all systems leveraging Lattice, an open- architecture operating system that enables collaborative teaming of unmanned assets to accomplish mission objectives.
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