Lattice

Lattice is Anduril Industries' AI-powered software platform that fuses sensor data, tracks airborne threats, and coordinates kinetic and non-kinetic counter-drone responses in real time. Originally developed for border surveillance, it has been adapted for multi-domain military operations and is now extending to ISR as well as strike.

In March 2026, the US Army designated Lattice the DoD-wide command-and-control platform for Counter-UAS operations, beginning with an $87 million task order placing it with JIATF-401. That order was the opening purchase on a $20 billion, 10-year enterprise contract vehicle administered by Army Contracting Command, consolidating more than 120 separate procurement actions. In April 2026 the Army awarded a follow-on $16.8 million sole-source contract for Ghost-X VTOL reconnaissance aircraft, with Lattice as the integration layer. Arsenal-1, Anduril's automated manufacturing facility, is now slated to produce four Lattice-integrated weapons platforms including the YFQ-44A Fury and Roadrunner by end-2026.

On 7 May 2026, the Netherlands awarded Anduril Industries a counter-drone contract using the Lattice platform, with initial operational capability expected within one month of signing, making it the first sovereign European Anduril deployment. The Netherlands simultaneously announced it was recruiting 1,200 operators to embed drone and counter-drone units in every army combat formation. The Dutch contract is the precedent-setter: the one-month IOC timeline is a direct rebuttal to the procurement timelines of European legacy integrators, and its success or failure will determine whether other European militaries follow. The vehicle consolidates procurement into a single mechanism, making Lattice the de facto US Counter-UAS standard through at least 2031, extendable to 2036. Anduril extended the same stack logic on 20 July 2026, unveiling Thunder, a Group 5 hybrid-electric autonomous tiltrotor built with ARCHeR Aviation for defence and commercial roles. Thunder is an airframe, not a Lattice module, but it is the latest addition to a stack, sensor fusion and command-and-control through Lattice, strike and ISR airframes through Fury, Roadrunner and now Thunder, that Lattice ties together operationally rather than bolting on.