Anduril today unveiled EagleEye, an independently researched and developed, modular, AI-powered family of systems that unifies command and control, digital vision, and survivability within a single, adaptive architecture.
EagleEye is a consequential step toward realizing Anduril’s vision of turning every warrior into a connected node on the battlefield. It consolidates mission planning, perception, and control of unmanned assets into a lightweight system that reduces weight and cognitive load while improving protection.
Anduril is already delivering the Army’s Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC) and Soldier Borne Mission Command–Architecture (SBMC-A) programs. Together, SBMC and SBMC-A form a mixed-reality platform that equips U.S. Army Soldiers with integrated situational awareness, mission planning, and training tools to improve decision-making and mobility. EagleEye builds on these advances, pairing mission command software with a heads-up display (HUD) and helmet-native hardware for balance, protection, and battlefield effectiveness.
“We don’t want to give service members a new tool—we’re giving them a new teammate,” said Palmer Luckey, Anduril’s founder. “The idea of an AI partner embedded in your display has been imagined for decades. EagleEye is the first time it’s real.”
Core Capabilities
Mission Planning
EagleEye enables mission command through a high-resolution, collaborative 3D sand table. Operators can rehearse missions, coordinate movements, and integrate live video feeds pinned to terrain. This creates a shared operational picture before and during the mission.
Enhanced Perception
The HUD enhances the operator’s view by overlaying digital information onto the real world, delivering vital contextual insights. EagleEye includes both an optically transparent daytime HUD and a digital night-vision HUD, each purpose-built for its environment. The system’s advanced approach to blue force tracking enables warfighters to know the precise location of teammates in world space, such as their exact position within a building or on a specific floor, rather than simply appearing as a dot on a 2D map. With Anduril’s Lattice network of distributed sensors, the system fuses real-time feeds from across the battlespace, allowing operators to detect and track threats even when terrain or structures block direct line of sight.
Heightened Survivability
EagleEye provides beyond-full-cut ballistic protection and blast wave mitigation in an ultralightweight shell designed for long wear. Rear- and flank-view sensors expand awareness without distraction. Spatial audio and radio frequency (RF) detection add layers of protection, alerting operators to hidden or immediate threats.
Edge Connectivity
EagleEye consolidates soldier networking and command tools into a body-worn system. Operators can task unmanned aerial vehicles (UAS), call for fires, and control robotic teammates while staying mobile. Lattice mesh networking ensures resilient command and control in denied, degraded, intermittent, or limited (DDIL) environments.
Designed with the Warfighter in Mind, for the Warfighter’s Demands
EagleEye is built from the ground up with ergonomic form factors modular add-ons, and a software-first architecture. Configurations include helmet, visor, and glasses variants. The system balances weight, reduces the bulk of traditional night vision goggles (NVGs), and keeps sensors aligned with the warfighter’s center of gravity. The totality of these attributes make EagleEye a standard-setting technology meant to perform to the requirements of military operations.
By partnering with commercial leaders such as Meta, OSI, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., and Gentex Corporation, who have invested billions in augmented reality, rugged eyewear, compute, sensing, and ballistic helmets, Anduril brings proven technology directly into defense. This approach lowers cost, accelerates development, and ensures a path to continuous upgrade.
EagleEye equips dismounted operators with the ability to plan, fight, and survive while connected to every asset in the battlespace. As part of the Lattice ecosystem, EagleEye ensures persistent connectivity and control in any environment.
Aesthetically, they’ve obviously given a nod towards HALO with the design of the helmet.
Practically, this is what we should have done a long time ago.
Instead of designing full coverage (large profile) helmets for use with electronic ear pro that was largely never issued, or issuing high cut helmets and add-on electronic ear pro in limited numbers (due to protection concerns)…we should have designed a full coverage helmet with direct integration of ear pro/comms as part of the shell.
Smaller profile, better fitment, same protection, better communication. It shouldn’t have taken this long.
They didn’t have to give it cat/wolf ears, but knowing Palmer Lucky and Co’s tastes, I bet they couldn’t help themselves
Wow, now I can’t unsee it.
My delight is immeasurable and my day is made.
Looking at some of the other images available on google….its kind of growing on me. Especially if that’s integrated hearing protection / comms on the sides.
Also dumb question but are these ballistically rated?
Per Palmer Luckey on the Shawn Ryan Show, yes, integrated ear pro/comms.
It will also be ballistic rated…but no idea what protection level.
My guess would be ACH GII…likely less than ECH/IHPS…the shell doesn’t look thick enough.
The only thing Gentex in that helmet is the chinstrap; Nothing else. Those two companies still haven’t even had a meeting yet to actually discuss a helmet and with Palmer exclaiming that he will happily steal IP, I would be rather reticent to work with him.
I know a little bit about this helmet but Anduril won’t verify so I won’t share. I will say that they don’t have experience in headborne protective systems and they selected some odd materials which work well ballistically in other applications but not helmets. As far as I know it has not been tested at any labs so don’t expect any ratings to be discussed.
Interesting. Seems odd for them to loudly announce teaming with Gentex if they only intend to use a Gentex chin strap. Maybe Gentex will have a larger roll if the legal/business details get worked out?
Where did Palmer talk about stealing IP…haven’t seen that.
Odd materials…I’m guessing that means ceramic shell?
They have been directed by the Army to use IHPs for the helmet. The Army saw Anduril’s helmet concept and gave it a pass. Part of me hopes they attempt to market it so they get the feedback they deserve and no, it’s not even ceramic.
Right now, I believe they are going to use Gentex for some of the optical display tech but it’s possible more will happen once a better agreement is in place.
As far as the “rip them off” comment, it’s a direct quote from a recent Defense Scoop interview:
““Literally, nothing we’ve ever done has been something that was not exhaustively covered in science fiction. Even like Lattice — there’s so many systems that just are Lattice, like the exact descriptor. It’s like, ‘Oh yeah, it’s this AI brain that does all the system management and exists in a proliferated way across all these different systems,’” Luckey told reporters at the roundtable. “The point is, you’ll never come up with anything new when you’re in my industry. And so if you’re not going to come with anything new, you really need to go back and look at what people thought about it before — because they probably had some other ideas you should be ripping off too. Rip them off.”
https://defensescoop.com/2025/10/13/palmer-luckey-anduril-eagleeye-ai-headwear-army-ausa/
However, this remains my favorite quote:
“And I will recognize that is the case here. I do believe that I’m the world’s best overall head-mounted system designer, and so I am passionate about it. But I am also the best person to be doing this work. So, of other projects in Anduril — like, there’s a lot where that’s not the case,” said Palmer Luckey.
I know several who could actually vie for that honor and they’ve chuckled at his hubris.
Radio on head…bad idea…because now there’s RF Seeker Drones