Anduril
Company overview. Founded in June 2017 by Palmer Luckey (creator of the Oculus Rift VR headset), Trae Stephens, Matt Grimm, Joseph Chen and Brian Schimpf, Anduril Industries is a Costa Mesa, California-based defense technology company seeded by Founders Fund. Its core platform, Lattice, is an AI-driven software system that fuses
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