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The companies have agreed to collaborate to support the US Army’s next-generation infantry fighting vehicle project.
American Rheinmetall Vehicles has entered into a strategic partnership with Anduril Industries as part of its proposal for the US Army’s Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV) program.
Anduril, the latest member of Rheinmetall-led “Team Lynx”, is expected to leverage its experience in software development, mission autonomy, systems integration, and command and control.
This includes work across the areas of artificial intelligence, mission autonomy, and sensor integration, which aims to reduce the cognitive burden of the OMFV’s two-soldier crew.
This is tipped to improve tactical awareness, C2, and decisive lethality to dominate future battlefields.
Specifically, Anduril has been tasked with delivering customised command and control software for Lynx OMFV formations, enabling collaborative formation manoeuvre, as well as collaborative detection, targeting, and engagement of threats for future armoured combat formations.
Anduril’s software is expected to have an agile based development and improvement plan, integration, and delivery cycles, supporting persistent modernisation.
“The partnership with Anduril brings with it exceptional innovations in software development, command and control, sensor integration, and counter UAS systems for inclusion in our OMFV offering,” Matt Warnick, managing director at American Rheinmetall Vehicles, said.
“These additional technologies coupled with our existing teammates’ respective strengths provide soldiers capabilities not available anywhere else in the world.
“Further, Anduril’s innovative technologies and focus on customer requirements make it a superb partner to join Team Lynx in support of our work to deliver an unmatched, transformational IFV to the Army for the OMFV program.”
Zach Mears, head of strategy, Anduril, welcomed the opportunity to support Team Lynx’s bid for the advanced US Army project.
“Software is at the core of the weapons and military systems of the future,” Mears added.
“Anduril specialises in delivering advanced mission autonomy, enabling commanders and battle managers to command and control more lethal capability at the tactical edge.
Anduril joins a host of other defence contractors in Team Lynx, including Textron Systems, Raytheon Technologies, L3Harris Technologies and Allison Transmission.
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