Y’all ever have those moments where you read a story, scroll past, do a double-take, and then scroll back like, “F**ck me.”
Yeah, this is one of those.
On Friday, the US Army announced (in a fairly chill contract roundup) that it’s issued a 10-year contract worth up to $20B—yes, billion with a B—to “consolidate the procurement and management of the company’s commercially available technologies.”
The idea is to “streamline operations, reduce administrative costs, and accelerate the fielding of critical capabilities to Warfighters and other stakeholders across the U.S. Government,” according to the Army announcement.
The contract will start out with a five-year base period, after which the Army can choose to extend for a second five years. The service was careful to point out that the “amount represents the maximum potential value, not an obligated amount.”
Between this and that rumored $4B raise, those Anduril accountants must be having a field day.
On contract: Anduril already has “hundreds of millions” in contracts with the Army, according to Obviant data. Most prominent among them are:
- $159M for the Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC) program, the successor to IVAS.
- A $99.6 million OTA to build a prototype for the service’s next-generation command and control program (NGC2).
The defense tech giant has also been tapped by the Army to build 4.75-inch SRMs (like, a lot of them), and its flagship Lattice software was selected for the Integrated Battle Command System Maneuver (IBCS-M) program as a “next-generation fire control platform” for counter-UAS.
In other words, they’re not at $20B worth of work quite yet—but the company is well on its way.
All-in-one: From the sounds of it, this new contract will take everything Anduril is already doing for the Army (plus everything it does in the future) and combine it into one neat system operating on Lattice.
“[The contract] will consolidate current and future commercial solutions—including the proprietary, open-architecture, AI-enabled Lattice suite, integrated hardware, data, computer infrastructure, and technical support services—into a unified, mission-ready capability supporting the Army’s evolving operational and business needs,” the Pentagon said in its contract round-up.
“[This] provides a foundational command and control capability,” Brig. Gen. Matt Ross, director of Joint Interagency Task Force 401, said in a statement. “The Department of War and interagency partners now possess a clear path to a cohesive and operationally effective ecosystem that gives our warfighters the most advanced tools to defend the homeland.”
Downstream: And despite the price tag, it sounds like the idea is to actually save on future work by “eliminating pass-through charges on subcontracts,” all while speeding up procurement and better integrating Anduril’s kit into “Joint and Army systems.”
“Enterprise contracts are a key part of our modernization strategy, allowing us to consolidate software agreements, eliminate redundancies, and accelerate the delivery of critical tools,” Gabe Chiulli, chief technology officer for the Office of the Chief Information Officer, said in a statement.
Despite how Anduril leadership feels about a certain word that rhymes with “shmeoshprime,” we think it’s safe to say that the company is officially batting in the big leagues now.