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• Anduril secures $87M contract for a common counter-unmanned C2 program

  16-03-2026 22:09 via defenseone.com
  The Army-led Joint Interagency Task Force 401 has made one of its first major steps to securing interoperable counter-unmanned systems: selecting Anduril’s Lattice command-and-control software as a common platform for any system bought in the government’s marketplace. The $87 million contract is part of a larger agreement the Army signed with Anduril last week, to the tune of up to $20 billion over the next decade, to authorize any federal agency to purchase Anduril’s comm
  
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• How the Pentagon is working to wriggle out of China’s rare-earths grip

  16-03-2026 03:37 via defenseone.com
  HONOLULU—In China, the United States is facing “a strategic competitor that offers a new level of challenge,” and must move quickly to close gaps in manufacturing and secure access to critical minerals, the assistant defense secretary for industrial base policy said.“When you look at China, they have 30 percent of global manufacturing to our 17 percent,” Mike Cadenazzi said last week at NDIA’s Pacific Operational Science and Technology conference. “China
  
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