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Last workweek , AndurilandPalantirdelivered the first Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node ( TITAN ) — picture a tactical military truck designed to traverse up massive amounts of information from detector in space , as well as across terrains and high EL — reaching the first major milestone in its $ 178 million contract with the U.S. Army . It was a big profits for Palantir , which then brought on Anduril and Northrop Grumman , among other subcontractors , to help with some of the computer hardware element .
Palantir won the hardware declaration back in March after an encompassing paradigm design process against RTX , formally Raytheon . For context , Raytheon , one of the major defense prime , has a market jacket of about $ 155 billion , dwarfingPalantir ’s $ 66 billionas of writing and Anduril ’s late $ 14 billion rating .
In March , Tom Keane , elderly vice president of engineering at Anduril , promisedDefense Newsthat the Anduril - Palantir team would deliver the TITAN prototype in simple months . About four calendar month later , the companies deliver .
Next up , soldiers will put the TITAN through an wide testing process .
For Anduril , getting pull on to the contract bridge by Palantir is an example of a rise tide lift all boats . The TITAN victory shows that defense technical school startups , which often start in software , have a path to come through major contract with hardware components .
“ We might be the first software peak , but we do n’t intend to be the only software program prime , ” Bryant Choung , senior vice president for demurrer at Palantir , told Breaking Defenseback in March .
Anduril ’s ambitions go beyond subcontracting ; the companionship has been open about wanting to be the lead contractor on monumental contracts . The startup is a final contender for thecollaborative combat aircraft broadcast , and told Breaking Defense last week that it would compete to be the quality contractor on an upcoming broadcast designing a supersonic interceptor to take down cruise missiles .
