"The feds have awarded Palmer Luckey's Anduril $159 million for prototyping a new combination night vision/augmented reality/AI-enabled headset for the Army's renamed Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC) program. Rivet Industries, a defense tech startup founded in 2024 by a group of former Palantir executives, was awarded $195 million to test, iterate, and help field whatever headset turns out to work best for Army soldiers."
"it wants helmet-mounted headsets able to provide situational awareness and mission command capabilities for soldiers in the field at the company level and below, down to the small squad units that perform the bulk of Army field actions. The Army wants the headset to pull in data from a variety of sensors and sources to help soldiers make faster, safer, and more operationally efficient decisions,"
""The result," Anduril said in its press release, is that "warfighters lose precious seconds just trying to get a common picture of the fight." In other words, the Army is hoping SBMC headsets and the data they provide can cut through the constantly shifting fog of war - a problem that has plagued militaries since the earliest days of organized warfare thanks to the chaos inherent in combat."
The US Army provided $354 million to Anduril ($159 million) and Rivet Industries ($195 million) to advance the Soldier Borne Mission Command program and field helmet-mounted mixed-reality headsets. The headsets aim to combine night vision, augmented reality, and AI to deliver situational awareness and mission command capabilities at company and squad levels. The program seeks to aggregate sensor and intelligence feeds, reduce data silos, and enable faster, safer, and more operationally efficient decisions. Rivet will test, iterate, and help field effective designs. The effort follows earlier troubled attempts that produced sickness and integration failures.
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