CDAO Awards Anduril Production Agreement to Deliver Edge Data Mesh
The U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Chief Digital and AI Office (CDAO) has awarded Anduril Industries a three-year production agreement to scale a first of its kind tactical Edge Data Mesh, powered by Anduril’s Lattice Mesh. The mesh is already operational across multiple services and combatant commands, delivering critical data that enables mission-relevant generative artificial intelligence (AI) solutions specifically tailored to the unique requirements of the warfighter. This agreement will accelerate the expansion of the mesh to increase access to decentralized, distributed and disconnected systems, and to power new insights and real-time decision making at the edge.
Today’s systems may be dependent on cloud or hub/spoke connectivity and are not always optimized for operations with denied, degraded, or intermittent communication pathways. This demands a scalable decentralized solution that dynamically adapts to disruptions. The Lattice Mesh is a decentralized networking capability that seamlessly distributes critical data across platforms, domains, and partners by intelligently prioritizing data paths to ensure the most efficient flow of critical data. To achieve this outcome, the Lattice Mesh was built for the edge, connects directly with, and runs on, sensors, weapons, platforms, robots, and more across the edge to provide access to systems and data not previously accessible. Warfighters at the edge will be enabled to publish and subscribe to data in support of time sensitive operations or where large numbers of manned, unmanned and autonomous systems must collaborate in contested environments to advance the mission.