SANC Counter-UAS Ecosystem
Lockheed Martin's integrated commercial counter-UAS product line combining detection, control, identification and mitigation in a single stack, built on Fortem Technologies investment.
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Can SANC's integrated product approach challenge Anduril's open-platform Lattice for enterprise counter-drone contracts?
Timeline for SANC Counter-UAS Ecosystem
Launched as Lockheed's first integrated commercial C-UAS offering
Drones: Industry & Defence: Lockheed launches SANC counter-UAS product line- What is SANC counter-UAS and who makes it?
- SANC is Lockheed Martin's integrated counter-drone ecosystem, launched on 23 April 2026. It combines Fortem Technologies' TrueView detection radar and DroneHunter interceptor with Lockheed's command and control layer, targeting the enterprise C-UAS market.Source: Motley Fool
- How does SANC compare to Anduril's Lattice counter-drone system?
- Lattice is an open-platform software system that connects any compliant sensor or effector. SANC is an integrated product combining Fortem's specific radar and interceptor hardware with Lockheed's C2 layer. Lattice holds a $20 billion enterprise contract; SANC launched commercially in April 2026.Source: Motley Fool
- Why did Lockheed Martin create a counter-drone product line?
- Lockheed launched SANC in April 2026 to capture the growing enterprise C-UAS market as Anduril's Lattice platform began consolidating it. The investment in Fortem Technologies gave Lockheed a purpose-built sensor-to-effector stack without developing a new product from scratch.Source: Motley Fool
Background
SANC (Sense, Act, Neutralise, Command) is the Counter-UAS ecosystem brand Lockheed Martin launched on its Q1 2026 earnings call on 23 April 2026, combining its strategic investment in Fortem Technologies with Lockheed's own command and control, integration, and customer access capabilities. The product stacks four layers: detection via Fortem's TrueView radar, command and control via Lockheed's integration layer, identification, and mitigation via the DroneHunter net-capture interceptor. The announcement made SANC Lockheed's first integrated commercial C-UAS product offering.
Lockheed Martin launched SANC explicitly to target the enterprise integrator market that Anduril's $20 billion Lattice Counter-UAS enterprise contract had begun to consolidate. Where Lattice is a software-defined platform that routes detection and effector data across any compliant sensor or intercept system, SANC is a purpose-integrated product combining two specific hardware layers from Fortem's portfolio with Lockheed's systems engineering and programme management. The competing architectures represent two philosophies: platform openness (Lattice) versus integrated product certainty (SANC).
The Q1 2026 earnings context in which SANC was announced was mixed: Lockheed's quarterly revenue was flat at $18.021 billion, net earnings fell 13%, and the stock dropped 6.3% on the day. SANC is partly a signal to investors that Lockheed is restructuring around the commercial and enterprise C-UAS growth market, not just its traditional platform programmes. RTX's reusable Coyote demonstration on the same day placed a second competing system in the same enterprise market frame.