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Anduril Industries and Meta have announced a partnership to design, build and deploy a suite of integrated mixed reality (XR) products aimed at enhancing the situational awareness and enabling intuitive control of autonomous systems on the battlefield for US warfighters.
The partnership, which leverages over a decade of investment from both companies in advanced hardware, software and artificial intelligence, is privately funded – meaning no taxpayer dollars are involved. The goal is to deliver billions of dollars in savings to the US military by harnessing high-performance components and technologies originally developed for commercial applications.
This collaboration comes at a pivotal time, as a new era of computing, centred on AI and wearable devices, begins to take shape. America’s long-standing advantage in national security has been built on technological leadership – from early microchips and personal computers to the internet and mobile tech. Now, as computing evolves, Meta and Anduril are committed to maintaining the United States’ edge while bolstering both economic and national security.
“Meta has spent the last decade building AI and AR to enable the computing platform of the future,” said Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Meta. “We’re proud to partner with Anduril to bring these technologies to the American servicemembers who protect our interests at home and abroad.”
“I’m excited to be working with Meta again,” said Palmer Luckey, founder of Anduril. “Of all the areas where dual-use technology can make a real difference, this is the one I’m most passionate about. My mission has long been to turn warfighters into technomancers, and the products we’re building with Meta do exactly that.”
The partnership will see joint mixed reality capabilities integrated seamlessly into Anduril’s Lattice platform, a powerful AI-driven command and control system. Lattice aggregates data from thousands of sources, delivering real-time battlefield intelligence. By incorporating augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) interfaces into these systems, soldiers will gain intuitive access to Lattice’s analytics, giving them a real-time advantage in decision making during combat.
Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, chief technology officer of Meta, added, “The world is entering a new era of computing that will give people access to limitless intelligence and extend their senses in ways that were previously unimaginable. Our national security benefits enormously from American industry driving these technologies forward.”
For Meta, this represents a major expansion into supporting US government adoption of its advanced technologies. The collaboration builds on Meta’s Reality Labs investments and its support for open-source Llama AI models in national security contexts, both in the US and with close allies.
The partnership is already bearing fruit. Anduril and Meta have jointly submitted a white paper for SBMC Next (formerly IVAS Next), marking significant progress since the US Army’s novation of the IVAS contract from Microsoft to Anduril.
Anduril has accelerated development, moving the IVAS program from concept to soldier-tested capability. What once took 180 days for a software update now reaches the field in under 18 hours. Field tests of Lattice-integrated IVAS headsets are already underway.
This collaboration between Anduril and Meta signals a bold move towards delivering immersive technologies that transform how soldiers see, sense and interpret battlefield information – turning cutting-edge concepts into real-world combat capability.
