Company
Anduril Industries
American defense-technology company (Costa Mesa, founded 2017 by [Palmer Luckey](/people/palmer-luckey), [Brian Schimpf](/people/brian-schimpf), and others)…
- Founded
- 2017
- HQ
- Costa Mesa, California, USA
- Status
- private
- Models
- 7
Verified profile
12
Sources on record
1
Tracked changes
Updated 1 month ago
Last verified change
Overview
American defense-technology company (Costa Mesa, founded 2017 by Palmer Luckey, Brian Schimpf, and others) building autonomous air, ground, and maritime systems unified by its Lattice software platform. Raised a $2.5B Series G at a $30.5B valuation (June 2025); a further round in 2026 was reported at a higher valuation. Building the Arsenal-1 hyperscale manufacturing plant in Ohio.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
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Models (7)
View all models →Current platform
Barracuda
Anduril's Barracuda is a family of low-cost, air-breathing Autonomous Air Vehicles (cruise-missile class) built for hyperscale production and mass employment; the -100, -250, and -500 variants offer increasing range (the -500 exceeds ~500 nautical miles) and multi-platform compatibility.
Current platform
Ghost Shark (XL-AUV)
Ghost Shark is Anduril Industries' extra-large autonomous undersea vehicle, co-developed with the Royal Australian Navy and the Defence Science and Technology Group, recorded in the registry as a new subsea model under the existing Anduril company and wired to the Lattice autonomy brain, leveraging Dive-LD technology with Dive-XL as its commercial baseline. The registry records it at production maturity, the strongest gating signal in the maritime set: a May 2022 co-development contract for three prototypes led to three Royal Australian Navy prototypes, the first revealed in April 2024, plus one for the US Navy, all delivered on budget and ahead of schedule, followed by an A$1.7 billion production contract announced around September 10, 2025 for dozens of vehicles over five years, with the first production hull coming off the Sydney production line in November 2025 ahead of schedule and entering sea-acceptance testing. A contract correction is important: the originating dispatch's A$140 million figure was the 2022 co-development contract, not the production contract, and the two should not be merged, the production contract being A$1.7 billion. It is production maturity but pre-full-rate, not yet operationally fielded with the Royal Australian Navy, since the planned January 2026 operational delivery is forward-dated. The exact production quantity, full-rate production in 2026, the operational handoff, and all hull specifications, which are estimated because the Australian Defence Department withholds the design, are not verified.
Current platform
Dive-LD
Dive-LD is Anduril Industries' large-diameter autonomous undersea vehicle, originating from its 2022 acquisition of Dive Technologies, recorded in the registry as a new subsea model under the existing Anduril company and wired to the Lattice autonomy brain. It is rated to a depth of 6,000 meters with about ten days of endurance and modular payloads for missions spanning intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, mine countermeasures, anti-submarine warfare, and seafloor mapping. The registry records it at commercial maturity reflecting a fielded, early-operational status: the first Dive-LD was delivered to the US Navy's Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Squadron 1 in 2025, a real handoff to a named operational Navy unit that clears the gating bar, though the quantity is single or low rather than mass production, placing it above Ghost Shark on US fielding but below it on production-contract scale. A specification correction is worth recording: the frequently cited 5.8-meter figure is the hull length, conflated in some sources with depth, while the actual depth rating is 6,000 meters. The quantity beyond the first unit, the dollar value of the Navy delivery, the operational status of Copperhead deployment from Dive vehicles, and the exact 2022 Dive Technologies acquisition date are not verified here.
Current platform
Ghost (Ghost-X)
Ghost is Anduril Industries' helicopter-style single-rotor autonomous VTOL small uncrewed aircraft for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, with the current Ghost-X variant redesigned on Ukrainian combat feedback from the Ghost 4 lineage launched in September 2020. It carries roughly a 20-to-25-pound payload over about 75 to 90 minutes and 25 kilometers, runs Anduril's Lattice autonomy software, and sits on the Defense Innovation Unit's China-free Blue UAS list. Its verified gating events are strong: in September 2024 it was selected for the US Army's Company-Level small-UAS Directed Requirement Tranche 1 alongside Performance Drone Works' C-100, under a $14.417 million ten-year indefinite-delivery contract, and it was chosen via the Army's Medium Range Reconnaissance program under Replicator for rapid fielding to Brigade Combat Teams, with thirteen Army units logging more than 1,200 unit-hours over the prior year and combat use in Ukraine since 2022, backed by a $1 billion Ohio manufacturing facility announced in January 2025. On AI substance the Lattice stack delivers genuine fielded onboard autonomy, including radio-silent flight, single-operator multi-drone teaming, and automatic mission hand-off on low battery, and Ghost is wired in the registry to the existing Lattice brain; note that Hivemind is Shield AI's autonomy stack, not Anduril's, so Ghost is not wired to it. Counter-evidence is kept rather than suppressed: a Ghost-X crashed in uncontrolled flight during January 2025 training in Germany and Bloomberg reported broader Anduril drone-crash setbacks in late 2025, real reliability friction that Anduril says it diagnosed and fixed. A reported roughly $17 million April 2026 contract, a 300-percent-effectiveness claim, and precise total fielded counts are recorded as claimed but not verified.
Current platform
Anduril Fury (YFQ-44A)
Autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) designated YFQ-44A; began flight testing in late 2025. Flew with mission-autonomy software from both Anduril (Lattice) and Shield AI (Hivemind). Not yet in series production.
Current platform
Anduril Bolt
Man-packable autonomous quadrotor; the Bolt-M variant is a loitering munition selected for the US Marine Corps Organic Precision Fires - Light (OPF-L) program (600+ units).
Current platform
Anduril Roadrunner
Reusable, twin-jet, vertical-takeoff autonomous air vehicle; the Roadrunner-M variant is a counter-UAS interceptor that can return and land if not expended. Unveiled Dec 2023; in large-scale production.
Relationships
Current leadership (10)
- David Goodrich Executive Chairman & CEO, Anduril Australia and Asia Pacificsecondary-verified
- Brian Schimpf Co-founder & CEOsecondary-verified
- Trae Stephens Co-founder & Executive Chairmansecondary-verified
- Matt Grimm Co-founder & COOsecondary-verified
- Matt Steckman President & Chief Business OfficerIR-verified
- Babak Siavoshy VP & General Counselreported, not verified
- Shane Arnott SVP, Maritime (Ghost Shark XL-AUV program lead)secondary-verified
- Palmer Luckey Foundersecondary-verified
- Joe Chen Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Christian Brose President & Chief Strategy OfficerIR-verified
Founders (5)
- Palmer Luckeycofounderfounded 2017-01-01
- Brian Schimpfcofounderfounded 2017-01-01
- Trae Stephenscofounderfounded 2017-01-01
- Matt Grimmcofounderfounded 2017-01-01
- Joe Chencofounderfounded 2017-01-01
Board (5)
- Trae Stephens chair
- Palmer Luckey director
- Brian Schimpf director
- Matt Grimm director
- Joe Chen director
Former / Previously (4)
- Adnan Esmail SVP of Engineeringsecondary-verified
- Goutham Subramanian Engineersecondary-verified
- Vibhav Altekar Early engineer (Ghost Shark)secondary-verified
- Nick Stoner Senior Director, maritimesecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Anduril Industries.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Operator customers (4)
- United States Army2 deployments
- Royal Australian Navy1 deployment
- United States Marine Corps1 deployment
- United States Navy1 deployment
Brains developed (1)
- Anduril Latticeos-layer · production
Recent coverage
Anduril Industries in third-party press
Peer companies
- DJI7 models
- Amazon4 models
- Autel Robotics4 models
- Saildrone4 models
- Saronic Technologies4 models
- Teledyne FLIR4 models
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- low
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships (1)
- Anduril x US Air Force CCA with US Air Forcedeployment
Funding rounds (7)
- Series H2026-05-13
$5.0B(reported) · $61.0B post
Investors: Thrive Capital (co_lead), Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) (co_lead), Founders Fund
- Series G2025-06-05
$2.5B · $30.5B post
Investors: Founders Fund (lead)
- Series F2024-08-07
$1.5B · $14.0B post
Investors: Founders Fund (lead), Sands Capital (lead)
- Series E2022-12-01
$1.5B(reported) · $8.5B post
Investors: Valor Equity Partners (lead), Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
- Series D2021-06-01
$450M(reported) · $4.6B post
Investors: Elad Gil (co_lead), Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) (co_lead), 8VC, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Lux Capital, Valor Equity Partners, D1 Capital Partners
- Series C2020-07-01
$200M(reported) · $2.0B post
Investors: Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) (lead), Founders Fund, Valor Equity Partners
- Series B2019-09-01
$127M(reported)
Investors: Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), General Catalyst
Acquisitions (2)
- acquired Blue Force Technologiesfull acquisition
- acquired Numerica Corporationfull acquisition
Sources (12)
- https://fortune.com/2026/05/06/anduril-ceo-brian-schimpf-defense-tech-military-pentagon-palmer-luckey/
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/anduril-raises-2-5b-at-30-5b-valuation-led-by-founders-fund/
- https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/05/anduril-valuation-founders-fund.html
- https://fortune.com/2025/06/05/anduril-palmer-luckey-funding-30-billion-valuation-founders-fund/
- https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/03/anduril-aims-at-60-billion-valuation-in-new-funding-round/
- https://www.axios.com/2026/03/04/anduril-palmer-luckey-valuation
- https://www.anduril.com/news/anduril-building-arsenal-1-hyperscale-manufacturing-facility-in-ohio
- https://www.defensenews.com/industry/2025/01/16/anduril-to-build-arsenal-1-autonomous-weapons-plant-in-central-ohio/
- https://www.axios.com/local/columbus/2026/03/23/anduril-factory-rickenbacker-facility-production
- https://news.microsoft.com/source/2025/02/11/anduril-and-microsoft-partner-to-advance-integrated-visual-augmentation-system-ivas-program-for-the-u-s-army/
- https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/11/anduril-to-take-over-microsofts-22-billion-us-army-headset-program.html
- https://breakingdefense.com/2025/04/anduril-gets-green-light-from-army-to-take-over-microsofts-ivas-project-exec/
Market intelligence
Hiring signals
Role composition
Recent openings
- PCB Design Engineer, Air Dominance and StrikeEngineering
Costa Mesa, California, United States
- Integration and Test EngineerEngineering
Costa Mesa, California, United States
- Integration and Test EngineerEngineering
Costa Mesa, California, United States
- Business
- Technical Recruiter, Production (Contract)Business
Seattle, Washington, United States
- Technical Recruiter, Production (Contract)Business
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
+4 more open roles tracked
Common questions
- What is Anduril Industries?
- American defense-technology company (Costa Mesa, founded 2017 by Palmer Luckey, Brian Schimpf, and others) building autonomous air, ground, and maritime systems unified by its Lattice software platform. Raised a $2.5B Series G at a $30.5B valuation (June 2025); a further round in 2026 was reported at a higher valuation. Building the Arsenal-1 hyperscale manufacturing plant in Ohio.
- Where is Anduril Industries based?
- Anduril Industries is based in Costa Mesa, California, USA.
- When was Anduril Industries founded?
- Anduril Industries was founded in 2017.
- What does Anduril Industries make?
- Anduril Industries has 7 robot models on the DEPLOY registry: Barracuda, Ghost Shark (XL-AUV), Dive-LD and 4 others (Anduril Industries builds both physical robots and the AI that runs them).
- Where does Anduril Industries operate robots?
- Anduril Industries is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.
- Is Anduril Industries safe?
- Anduril Industries has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.
Methodology: Verified · 12 sources (2 primary) · last reviewed 2026-06-29
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-06-29
Sources by quality tier
- 4
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 4
- secondary-industry-publication
- Industry publication
- 2
- secondary-established-publication
- Established publication
- 2
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Anduril Industries.Peer companies
- DJI7 models
- Amazon4 models
- Autel Robotics4 models
- Saildrone4 models
- Saronic Technologies4 models
- Teledyne FLIR4 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Anduril Industries from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
An Explosion Knocked Out Anduril’s Rocket Motor Test Site in Mississippi
The incident could disrupt a key part of the defense company’s rocket motor business, which designs and tests prototype motors for military customers.
Hegseth hosts emerging weapons makers for meeting on munitions production: Sources
Invitees to the closely held, publicly unannounced meeting included Anduril, Castelion and Leidos, sources said.
Anduril and General Atomics win contracts to build drone wingmen for Air Force
US Air Force awarded production contracts to Anduril and General Atomics to build semi-autonomous drone wingmen (CCA program) that fly alongside fighter jets. Anduril will deliver…
Anduril Wins Production Contract for US Air Force CCA Program
Anduril awarded production contract for FQ-44 semi-autonomous fighter aircraft under CCA program. Over 150 aircraft planned.
Air Force picks General Atomics, Anduril to build first CCA loyal wingman drones
US Air Force selected General Atomics and Anduril to build first Collaborative Combat Aircraft loyal wingman drones. Software vendors still competing.
US approves Kuwait request to buy nearly $2 billion of counter-drone platforms
Following recent Iranian strikes on Kuwait, the U.S. approved a potential foreign military sale of counter-UAS platforms made by Anduril.
US must learn lessons from Ukraine, innovate faster and cheaper: Anduril president
Anduril President Christian Brose discussed the need to develop cheaper weapons systems at scale to avoid quick depletion of exquisite munitions.
Anduril begins Fury drone production at Arsenal-1 Ohio plant
Anduril started production of FQ-44 Fury combat drone at Arsenal-1 manufacturing plant in Ohio. B plant to employ 4,000 over next decade. Production began months ahead of schedule.
Look Inside Anduril's New Factory as CCA Production Begins
Anduril begun production of YFQ-44A Fury CCA drone at Arsenal-1 plant outside Columbus, Ohio. B facility, 4,000 employees over decade.
Hegseth directive: Every squad equipped with expendable drones by end of 2026
Defense Secretary Hegseth directed every squad to be equipped with low-cost expendable drones by end of FY2026. Priority to Indo-Pacific combat units.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/anduril.md
- RSS feed: /companies/anduril/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/7bdb9a35-31c5-4740-bddd-8756fdd5f0c4
- Revision history: /companies/anduril/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
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- Amazon4 models
- Autel Robotics4 models
- Saildrone4 models
- Saronic Technologies4 models
- Teledyne FLIR4 models
Video
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The U.S. Air Force and defense tech firm Anduril Industries have developed one of the first US autonomous jet-powered combat aircraft — the YFQ-44 “Fury.” Fury
The Anduril UK team demonstrated Anduril's full end to end base defense capabilities for the UK Strategic Command.
DEPLOY Intelligence Score
69.5/ 100
6-month trend
Analysis
Well-capitalized with $11.3B raised and recent funding activity. Clean safety record across 5 verified deployments. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
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DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
Last computed: Jul 3, 2026
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