This is like building a team of intelligent, robotic guard dogs and watchtowers for the military and national security forces, combining American software brains with UAE’s defense hardware and regional access. The joint venture designs and builds autonomous drones, towers, and command software that can watch, patrol, and react with minimal human input.
Traditional defense systems are manpower-intensive, slow to adapt, and expensive to operate and integrate. The JV aims to deliver autonomous, software-defined systems (air, land, maritime, and command-and-control) that reduce reliance on human operators, provide faster situational awareness and response, and allow the UAE and regional partners to field modern, integrated defense capabilities more quickly and at lower lifecycle cost.
Combination of (1) proprietary autonomy and mission software stack from Anduril, (2) defense certifications and customer relationships of EDGE Group in UAE/regional markets, and (3) long-term integration into customers’ command, control, communications, and sensor networks, making the systems hard to displace once deployed.
Hybrid
Vector Search
High (Custom Models/Infra)
Real-time, edge-deployed autonomy with secure communications and coordination across many vehicles imposes constraints on compute at the edge, low-latency networking, and robust safety/reliability validation, all under strict export-control and defense certification regimes.
Early Majority
Compared with traditional defense primes, this JV is explicitly software-first and autonomy-centric, aiming for rapid iteration and fieldable products (drones, towers, C2 platforms) rather than long-cycle bespoke programs, and is localized for UAE/regional customers via EDGE while leveraging Anduril’s Silicon Valley–style autonomy and AI stack.