The U.S. Marine Corps has awarded AeroVironment (Nasdaq: AVAV), Anduril Industries and Teledyne FLIR positions on a potential eight-year, $249 million contract to build, test, support and deliver a non-developmental item loitering munition system designed to provide dismounted Marines in the infantry rifle squad with precision strike capability agai...
Steven Williams, formerly vice president of business development at L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), has been named VP of growth at Anduril Industries, according to his LinkedIn post. The three-decade industry veteran will support the development of the growth teams at the Irvine, California-headquartered defense technology contractor. Prior to jo...
Keith Flynn, formerly senior vice president of product and engineering at Glydways, has taken on the newly created role of SVP of manufacturing at Anduril Industries. He will help scale the production of autonomous systems for domestic and international customers and lead a team of 200 engineers and technicians across the U.S. and Australia, Anduril...
Anduril Industries has acquired Blue Force Technologies, a Morrisville, North Carolina-headquartered manufacturer of unmanned aircraft, in a deal to expand the former’s fleet of autonomous systems. Following the transaction whose financial terms were not disclosed, Anduril said Thursday it will utilize Blue Force Technologies’ digital en...
Anduril Industries has acquired Adranos in a transaction that makes the Costa Mesa, California-based defense technology company a solid rocket motor supplier to principal contractors providing missiles, hypersonics and other propulsion technologies for some of the major programs of the Department of Defense. Established in 2015, Mississippi-based Ad...
Neil Thurgood, a 37-year U.S. Army veteran, has been appointed to a senior vice president role at defense technology provider Anduril Industries. Anduril said Tuesday the retired Army lieutenant general will lead the company’s strategy for addressing capability priorities related to counter-unmanned air systems, air and missile defense, tactic...
Scott Goldstein, head of advanced missions at Anduril Industries, has assumed additional responsibilities as chief scientist at the defense technology startup, GovCon Wire has learned. Goldstein, a U.S. Air Force Reserve major general, leads Anduril’s technical development initiatives for the company’s government partners. He brings to the dual-...
Kevin Chlan, a retired U.S. Navy fighter pilot, has joined Anduril Industries as director of business development for mission systems integration, he announced in a LinkedIn post. Before transitioning to his civilian career, Chlan was with the office of the chief of naval operations, where he served as director of Next Generation Air Dominance requi...
Amazon’s (Nasdaq: AMZN) cloud computing business and Project Kuiper, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and SpiderOak Mission Systems have received contracts for the second phase of a Defense Innovation Unit project that seeks to demonstrate a hybrid architecture that would connect ground communications systems to satellite networks. The Hybrid Space Archit...
Gregory Kausner, formerly an executive director at the Department of Defense, has been appointed to lead the global defense business at Anduril Industries. The government service veteran will be responsible for driving Anduril’s growth initiatives and introducing its technology to potential partners in the international defense market, the com...
