ANDURIL INDUSTRIES, INC.
Department of Defense · SBIR
AI-Readiness Score
13/19
AI / ML Relevance
4/9
Problem Framing
4/5
Awardee Quality
5/5
Award
$1,342,431
Award amount
—
Award date
FA462525C0018
PIID
Awardee
98
Total awards
$911,222,109
Total $ won
10.2/19
Avg AI score
Description
B-21 WIDE-AREA INFRARED SYSTEM FOR PERSISTENT SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM SBIR PHASE III
Score Rationale
Award title names a specific sensor system (wide-area infrared) and application domain (B-21 persistent surveillance) but does not explicitly reference AI/ML techniques or position machine learning as the core deliverable—this reads as sensor/systems engineering. Problem is reasonably concrete (persistent surveillance for strategic platform) but lacks articulation of the specific AI challenge being solved. Anduril Industries is a known AI-native defense startup (founded 2017, autonomy-focused, venture-backed) with strong technical founding team, scoring maximum on awardee quality despite the contract itself appearing more hardware/sensor-focused than pure AI.