Anduril's Lattice Enters Missile Defense

This pushes Anduril higher up the kill chain, from spotting and stopping drones to deciding which sensor sees a missile first, which launcher should engage it, and how every unit shares the same track in real time. That matters because missile defense is less about a single interceptor and more about a software layer that fuses radar feeds, cleans up conflicting tracks, and tells Army, Navy, Air Force, and Missile Defense Agency systems to act as one network.1 2 3 4

• Lattice was built for exactly this middleware job. Anduril describes it as an AI battle management system that ingests thousands of sensor and effector feeds into one common operating picture, and its recent Army NGC2 work used Lattice Mesh to let vehicles, command posts, and soldiers publish and share data across disconnected networks.2 3 5
• The missile defense step is a concrete expansion of an existing air defense path. Earlier Lattice deployments tied together counter UAS hardware for SOCOM and Marine air defense, and at Valiant Shield 2026 Anduril said its Guam Defense System battle manager fused tracks from Army, Air Force, Navy, and Missile Defense Agency assets into a single joint picture.4 6 7
• This also fits the broader Anduril playbook of building one reusable software spine, then hanging more hardware and missions off it. Internal research has framed Lattice as the core product that let Anduril move from border towers into counter drone systems and larger Army C2 programs, with revenue scaling from an estimated $420M in 2023 to $1B in 2024 and $2.2B in 2025.5 8 9

The next step is for missile defense procurement to shift toward whoever owns the shared data layer. If Lattice keeps becoming the place where sensors, launchers, and operators meet, Anduril can capture more programs as the software backbone while swapping in new interceptors, radars, and even space based systems around it.1 3 10