Ashlee VanceNYT Best Seller | Reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek

America's Newest Sub in Action #anduril #defense #defensetech #submarine

11 Mar 2026 · 2 min

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In this short video segment, two presenters walk viewers through a live demonstration of Anduril's autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) as it dives, navigates, and resurfaces during a survey mission. They highlight the vehicle’s real‑time telemetry—showing it cruising at roughly 20 m (60 ft) above the seabed, executing a turn, and staying within a predefined rectangular survey box. The discussion centers on Anduril’s Lattice software platform, described as a “crown jewel” that aggregates map data, hardware diagnostics, and mission controls, allowing engineers and developers to monitor the AUV’s status remotely. The speakers also note the division of labor: engineers observe via Lattice while on‑site personnel act as the operational “labor” for the demonstration.

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So it's going to dive down? It is. Yep. There she goes now. So it picks up some speed and she's under. It's like James Bond. It is kind of spooky how it's there. It is spooky, man. Yeah.
So the vehicle is on mission now, which typically means we can't see what it's doing, except what we do have is our user interface. This is the Lattice screen.
Lattice is one of Anduril's crown jewels. It's the software that lets people track what all of the company's autonomous systems are doing out in the world. It has map info, diagnostics on the hardware, and tools to conduct missions.
In this data field, you can see basic information that tells us what it's doing in an instant in time. If you look over here, you can see basically the vehicle is currently running at 20 meters altitude off the bottom. It's about 60 feet. The vehicle's actually just made a turn. So we completed one track up this box. You can see the vehicle swinging around, coming back.
This rectangle, that's where you want it to stay?
That's the bounds of the survey box that we're running right now. The other neat thing about Lattice, all of our engineers, all the software developers, they can follow along and they can keep track of what the vehicle is doing. We're just the labor. We're just the labor today.
I'm sorry. It's going to come back up. Oh, there she is.
There she blows.
I had no choice.