Anduril Industries, a Costa Mesa, CA-based defense technology company, acquired Blue Force Technologies, a Morrisville, NC-based developer of autonomous aircraft with an integrated aerostructures division.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
With the acquisition, Anduril will expand its suite of autonomous capabilities into the group 5 autonomous aircraft space.
Blue Force Technologies designs and manufactures composite aircraft and their components at its factories in North Carolina. It has been developing Fury, a group 5 autonomous air vehicle with fighter-like performance since 2019, which leverages proprietary rapid prototyping, digital engineering and an open architecture that is designed to deliver a flight performance with the flexibility to integrate heterogenous sensors and payloads to support air dominance missions.
Anduril is a leader in developing and fielding integrated autonomous solutions across a wide variety of sensors, effectors and assets across domains. The company has experience automating the operations of robotic systems deployed in tactical environments around the world. Its objective is to support Department of Defense and allied militaries services in fielding autonomous and artificially intelligent systems as fast as possible.
This acquisition follows Anduril’s launch of Lattice for Mission Autonomy earlier this year, the artificial intelligence-enabled software platform that enables teams of autonomous systems to dynamically collaborate to achieve complex missions, under human supervision. By investing in both hardware and software capabilities, the company will further accelerate the development of autonomous operations like manned-unmanned teaming and other critical advanced autonomous solutions for warfighters around the world.
