Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries is a US defence-technology company founded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey, Trae Stephens, Matt Grimm, Joe Chen and Brian Schimpf, and headquartered in Costa Mesa, California. The company builds autonomous hardware and the Lattice software platform that fuses sensor data to detect, classify and help control military systems.

Anduril's product line includes the Ghost single-rotor reconnaissance helicopter drone, the Roadrunner twin-turbojet autonomous interceptor, and the Barracuda family of air-breathing cruise missiles. Its best-known aircraft is the YFQ-44A, also marketed as Fury, a semi-autonomous combat drone that grew out of Anduril's 2023 acquisition of Blue Force Technologies and was selected by the US Air Force for its Collaborative Combat Aircraft programme, alongside a rival design from General Atomics.

Anduril is building a large-scale manufacturing facility, Arsenal-1, near Columbus, Ohio, designed for high-volume production of autonomous systems. The company has grown quickly since 2017 into one of the largest venture-backed defence contractors in the United States, with satellite offices across the US and in the United Kingdom and Australia, and has expanded from software and sensor towers into aircraft, missiles and underwater vehicles.