Operators at the tactical edge need situational awareness, full spectrum cyber access and RF effects, and an accredited security posture on unified compute they can carry into forward areas. These capabilities have historically lived on separate stacks, with separate accreditation paths. On Menace, they now run together.

Together, these integrated solutions enhance Menace’s foundation for mission software, cyber operations, and secure communications. Teams can rapidly deploy, operate, and secure their mission systems globally without the need to integrate multiple disparate products.

Booz Allen and Anduril have collaborated for six years, including the fielding of Booz Allen’s EdgeXtend, built on Anduril’s Voyager edge hardware systems. The partnership and integrations announced today extend that work into C2, cyber and RF effects, and zero trust – capability areas where the DoW has signaled clear demand and where peer and near-peer competitors are increasingly contesting U.S. forces.

Source: Booz Allen

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Anduril participated with two Menace integrated C2 hardware systems during the exercise. Anduril’s Menace family of systems is a suite of Command, Control, Communications, and Compute (C4) capabilities designed to support classified mission planning, classified sensor fusion, aggregation, and targeting workflows with reduced transportation and logistical requirements in mobile, expeditionary form factors. At its core, Menace leverages software-enabled hardware — power, heating and cooling, redundant communications, and computing — in an integrated solution that simplifies employment, operations, and maintenance with the ability to update capabilities as the situation evolves.

In advance of Northern Edge 23–1. Anduril constructed and delivered the ISO container variant of Menace for ISO and a Menace for ULTV prototype over a 90-day period for the USMC Warfighting Lab (MCWL) and the USAF Air National Guard & Air Force Reserve Command Test Center (AATC), respectively. Both Menace for ISO, while being built to distinctly different form factors (Menace for ISO using a 20ft ISO container and Menace for ULTV utilizing an ultra light tactical vehicle platform), highlighted Anduril’s ability to integrate complex systems of systems and add layers of autonomy to push command, control, communications and compute (C4) to the tactical edge in a very short amount of time. During Northern Edge 23–1, Anduril delivered and demonstrated integrated suites of rapidly deployable and expeditionary C4 capabilities that leverage multiple communications pathways to support multi-service and multi-domain sensors and platforms for end-to-end results.

During the exercise, Menace for ULTV demonstrated its ability to integrate with Lattice, Anduril’s C2 software offering. Menace and Lattice ingested third party tracks from multi-domain sources to demonstrate the system’s ability to support targeting by air and ground-based assets in support of USMC operations. By leveraging this live track data from multiple local and exercise-wide sensor sources and correlating track data using Lattice, Anduril was then able to demonstrate Lattice’s ability to perform automated weapon-target pairing workflows for the USMC operator. Menace for ISO provided a Special Access Program Facility (SAPF) accreditable containerized solution for edge compute, mission planning and communications in support of USAF Agile Combat Employment (ACE) concept development, demonstrating Anduril’s automated, real-time communications failover capability across fiber, cellular, and satellite pathways.

Source: Anduril

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Menace is multi-mission capable and enables warfighters to plan and execute a wide variety of missions from forward deployed locations including local command and control of deployed forces, base defense and security, cUAS, and maintenance and logistics.

The Air Force’s strategic focus against near-peer adversaries during large-scale combat operations necessitates the rapid placement of structures and equipment which have robust and secure communications and C2 architecture. As assets position and reposition around the battlefield they require fast, integrated connection to other assets, command posts and battlefield commanders.

Menace is designed to be flexible and expeditionary to meet Air Force requirements. Menace is transportable via the air on a single C-130. It can be set up with two people and be online and fully operational within 10 minutes of emplacement. Menace is HVAC-equipped to withstand extreme temperatures. Quick setup and tear-down allows Menace to rapidly maneuver to sustain sortie generation during dispersed operations.

Menace provides redundant and resilient communications and can be operated in a contested, degraded, and operationally limited environments. Menace integrates redundant BLOS and LOS communications paths. Menace leverages long-haul commercial proliferated low earth orbit (PLEO) satellite communications (SATCOM), medium earth orbit (MEO) MILSAT SATCOM, and high frequency (HF) communications pathways. Menace is also secure, SCIF and SAP-F capable to enable classified mission planning even in austere locations.

Easily adaptable to all mission types, Menace can scale its size and integrate compute, communications, power, and thermal designs to different form factors, providing a C4 solution for tactical, and strategic operations. For example, Menace elements of the command, control, communications and computing platform can be applied to the MRZR for tactical C2, fires and maneuvers or bigger form factors like the JLTV for more complex operations.

Menace has a modular, open systems architecture and is software-agnostic — offering a high degree of flexibility. Menace allows for the continuous integration and delivery of new and emerging technologies, ensuring warfighters are able to stay one step ahead of emerging threats and the hardware is up to date nearly indefinitely.

Source: Anduril

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