Anduril unveiled its new EagleEye system at AUSA 2025, a modular, AI-powered family that integrates mission command, digital vision, and survivability directly into the warfighter’s helmet. The system, displayed today at the company’s booth, combines mission planning, a day/night HUD (heads-up display), and lightweight ballistic protection, aiming to reduce the soldier’s physical and cognitive load while connecting them to the battlefield sensor network.
EagleEye is designed to turn each fighter into a connected node of the tactical network: it consolidates mission planning, augmented perception, and unmanned-asset control into a lightweight, “helmet-native” architecture that, according to Anduril, improves protection and operational effectiveness. Palmer Luckey, the firm’s founder, described the development as the materialization of the idea of an “AI companion” inside the operator’s visor: “We don’t want to give new tools, we are giving a new companion,” he said in the official announcement.
As for what it offers, EagleEye incorporates a high-detail collaborative 3D planning board for mission planning, which allows rehearsing maneuvers, coordinating movements, and anchoring video streams to terrain in real time. This capability, the company says, facilitates creating a shared operational picture both before and during the mission, improving synchronization among disparate elements deployed in the area of operations.
On perception, the system features an optically transparent HUD for daytime use and a digital HUD for night vision, plus an advanced approach to blue force tracking that positions teammates precisely within three-dimensional space (for example, floor and sector inside a building), not just as points on a 2D map. Integration with Anduril’s Lattice network fuses real-time sources to detect and track threats even when direct line of sight is blocked by terrain or structures.
Survivability is another design pillar: EagleEye includes a structure with ballistic protection beyond-full-cut and blast-wave mitigation, rear and side sensors for expanded vision, spatial audio, and RF detection for early warnings. Anduril says the system’s ergonomics and balance reduce fatigue and keep the sensors aligned with the wearer’s center of gravity—key conditions for prolonged use in real operations.
In connectivity and control, EagleEye consolidates networking and command tools into a body-worn system that allows the operator to task UAVs, request fires, and command robots while remaining mobile. The Lattice mesh network ensures C2 resilience in DDIL (denied, degraded, intermittent, limited) environments, meaning operational continuity even under interference or satellite-link degradation.
Anduril also emphasized its “software-first” approach and the product’s modularity: EagleEye will have helmet, visor, and glasses variants, and was developed in partnership with commercial actors—including Meta, OSI, Qualcomm, and Gentex—to leverage mature AR technologies, rugged compute, sensors, and ballistic helmets. According to the company, this cooperation accelerates development, reduces costs, and enables continuous system updates.
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