Anduril’s EagleEye Puts Mission Command and AI Directly into the Warfighter’s Helmet

Costa Mesa — Anduril Industries today unveiled EagleEye, a modular, AI-powered family of systems that integrates mission command, digital vision and survivability into a single helmet-native architecture designed for dismounted soldiers.

The system — independently researched and developed by Anduril — aims to transform the individual warfighter into a persistent, connected node on the battlefield by consolidating mission planning, perception and control of unmanned assets into a lightweight package intended to reduce weight and cognitive load while improving protection.

“We don’t want to give service members a new tool — we’re giving them a new teammate,” Anduril founder Palmer Luckey said in a statement. “The idea of an AI partner embedded in your display has been imagined for decades. EagleEye is the first time it’s real.”

Mission planning meets mixed reality

EagleEye pairs mission-command software with a heads-up display (HUD) and helmet-native hardware to deliver a mixed-reality operational picture at the soldier level. A high-resolution, collaborative 3D “sand table” allows teams to rehearse missions, coordinate movements and pin live video feeds to terrain — enabling a shared operational picture both before and during engagements.

That planning capability is intended to sit alongside Anduril’s ongoing work on the Army’s Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC) and SBMC–Architecture programs, platforms that already offer integrated situational awareness and training tools. EagleEye extends those capabilities by embedding mission-command tools directly into wearable optics and helmet systems.

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EagleEye’s HUD concept includes both an optically transparent daytime HUD and a digital night-vision HUD, each optimized for its operational environment. The system overlays contextual information on the operator’s natural view — from navigational cues to sensor feeds — while advanced “blue force” tracking reportedly pins friendly forces into real-world coordinates, such as a specific room or floor, rather than just on a two-dimensional map.

Integrated with Anduril’s Lattice sensor network, EagleEye fuses feeds from distributed sensors across the battlespace so operators can detect and track threats even when line-of-sight is blocked by terrain or structures. Rear- and flank-view sensors, spatial audio and RF-detection features further expand situational awareness without overwhelming the user.

Protection designed for long wear

Anduril describes EagleEye as offering “beyond-full-cut” ballistic protection and blast-wave mitigation within an ultralight shell crafted for long-duration wear. By consolidating multiple capabilities into a single helmet system — and by offering visor and glasses variants as well as full-helmet configurations — the company aims to reduce the bulk and center-of-gravity problems associated with traditional night-vision stacks.

Command at the edge

A key selling point for EagleEye is its edge-centric connectivity. The system combines soldier networking and command tools into a body-worn platform that enables operators to task unmanned aerial vehicles, call for fires and control robotic teammates while remaining mobile. Lattice mesh networking is intended to provide resilient command and control even in denied, degraded, intermittent and limited (DDIL) environments.

Commercial partnerships, military upgrades

Anduril says EagleEye was developed with an eye toward commercial technology partnerships — naming companies that have invested heavily in augmented reality, compute and sensing — to accelerate development, lower costs and create a pathway for continuous upgrades. The company frames the approach as a way to bring proven commercial capabilities into defense without starting from scratch.

Toward a new standard?

EagleEye is positioned as a “standard-setting” technology meant to meet the rigorous demands of modern military operations: integrated mission planning, AI-assisted perception and reduced physical burden for dismounted troops. Whether the system will be rapidly adopted by fielded forces will depend on testing, logistics, integration with existing command-and-control ecosystems and, ultimately, procurement decisions.

For now, Anduril is betting on a simple premise: that embedding an AI-enabled teammate directly into a soldier’s optics and helmet can materially change how dismounted forces plan, sense and fight on the modern battlefield.