Anduril Industries present\u00f3 un software que, simplifica la gesti\u00f3n de cientos de drones y robots, liberando mano de obra militar y otros recursos para aplicarlos en otros asuntos. El software, conocido como Lattice for Mission Autonomy, es el resultado de al menos cuatro a\u00f1os de trabajo y llega en un momento en que el Departamento de Defensa se inclina cada vez m\u00e1s hacia el desarrollo y despliegue de sistemas no tripulados.<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON \u2014 Anduril Industries debuted software it said simplifies the management of potentially hundreds of drones and robots, freeing up military manpower and other resources to be applied elsewhere.<\/p>\n
The software, known as Lattice for Mission Autonomy, is the result of at least four years of work and arrives at a time when the Department of Defense increasingly leans into\u00a0the development and deployment of uncrewed systems<\/a>, regardless the environment.<\/p>\n Anduril won a $1 billion contract from U.S. Special Operations Command last year to lead its counter-drone systems integration work. The company\u2019s latest product serves as a central node for threat identification, electronic signature management, maneuvering and more.<\/p>\n Lattice for Mission Autonomy provides \u201cthe brains, the glue, to drive all these systems to be able to be effective\u201d with fewer people dedicated to oversight, said\u00a0Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve thought about it holistically,\u201d Schimpf said at May 1 briefing, during which reporters were given a glimpse at the software in action. \u201cWhen we thought about this, it\u2019s really at the level of, like, what do pilots do today? How do we plan and execute operations today? How do you start to encode that into software, and what are all the technical pieces necessary to make that happen?\u201d<\/p>\n Defense officials have\u00a0embraced uncrewed technologies<\/a>, seeing them as a less risky, relatively cheap and never-tiring means of exploring treacherous regions.<\/p>\n Air Force officials foresee a future defined by manned-unmanned teaming, and are seeking 1,000 so-called collaborative combat aircraft to augment its pilots. The Navy, likewise, envisions a fleet teeming with uncrewed vessels capable of spying, sensing, jamming and boosting communications.<\/p>\n The advanced machinery will need to be tracked, tasked and coordinated across vast distances and ever-changing conditions, which is where Lattice for Mission Autonomy shines, according to Chris Brose,\u00a0Anduril\u2019s chief strategy officer<\/a>. Whereas today there are \u201ctoo many people\u201d involved in \u201ctoo many loops,\u201d he said, the new software streamlines the practice.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is the ability of this software system to control assets in place and time, to actually process mission systems, orchestrate mission systems, and then synchronize and orchestrate the delivery of effects on, sort of, the right side of that kill chain,\u201d Brose added.<\/p>\n Injecting Lattice for Mission Autonomy into current and future operations should be relatively easy, according to the company, as it was fleshed out with tech from\u00a0other defense industry players<\/a>\u00a0in mind. Neither Brose nor Schimpf would disclose who exactly in government the company is working with.<\/p>\n While Anduril has its own uncrewed systems, including the Altius loitering munition and the Dive-LD autonomous underwater vehicle, there are plenty of other options already employed by militaries worldwide; Northrop Grumman makes the MQ-4C Triton, for example, and General Atomics makes the Gray Eagle.<\/p>\n \u201cThe government, correctly, is very concerned with having anything that\u2019s too blackbox, too locked down and too tied to a single vendor,\u201d Schimpf said. \u201cI think, in practice, it\u2019s actually very trivial to integrate this into new aircraft, new vehicles,\u00a0new boats<\/a>, whatever you need.\u201d<\/p>\n Anduril at the end of 2022 said it secured a $1.48 billion funding boost, bumping it to nearly $8.5 billion. The increase, dubbed \u201cSeries E,\u201d was credited with \u201cnearly doubling the company\u2019s previous valuation in June 2021,\u201d Defense News reported.<\/p>\n