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Deliveries will begin this year and continue through the end of 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The firm is already on a 10-year, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/unmanned\/2022\/01\/24\/us-special-operations-command-picks-anduril-to-lead-counter-drone-integration-work-in-1b-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\">worth up to $1 billion with U.S. Special Operations Command<\/a> to supply counter-drone hardware and software, but the spokesperson would not confirm whether the new business is part of its SOCOM award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That deal was announced in January 2022 and later that year, the command awarded Anduril $12.5 million for Roadrunner. SOCOM also requested another $19 million for the technology in its fiscal 2024 budget request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anduril <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/unmanned\/2023\/12\/01\/anduril-reveals-roadrunner-drone-mum-on-first-us-customer\/\" target=\"_blank\">unveiled Roadrunner <\/a>last December after spending two years secretly developing it with internal funding. At the time, the company\u2019s founder Palmer Luckey told reporters that Roadrunner was in low-rate production with an initial U.S. customer for \u201chundreds of units.\u201d He said the company plans to quickly scale to quantities in the hundreds of thousands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The use of drones and loitering munitions on the battlefield has expanded in recent years. The department wants to learn from the ingenuity of the Ukrainian military, which has deployed small drones in response to Russia\u2019s onslaught, but it also wants to develop a strong defense against the use of hostile drones by adversaries like Iran and its proxies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pentagon created<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/smd\/2023\/08\/08\/pentagons-counter-drone-office-to-demo-swarm-destruction-in-2024\/\"> the Joint Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office<\/a> to develop a coordinated, long-term response to drone threats in 2019, and in 2023, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks revealed a new DoD initiative called Replicator to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/unmanned\/2023\/11\/21\/replicator-candidates-to-be-chosen-by-early-december-pentagon-says\/\">field thousands of autonomous systems <\/a>by next summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The department announced last week that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2024\/09\/30\/small-drone-defense-is-next-in-pentagons-replicator-buying-push\/\" target=\"_blank\">Replicator\u2019s next area of focus will be Counter-UAS<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Anduril, Roadrunner offers a solution for both sides of the challenge. 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