On 15 January 2026, Anduril Industries announced that the U.S. Marine Corps had awarded the company a 23.9 million dollar contract for the next phase of the Organic Precision Fires-Light (OPF-L) program. The agreement covers the delivery of more than 600 Bolt-M loitering munition
Anduril Wins $23.9M Contract to Equip U.S. Marines With Man-Packable Bolt-M Loitering Munitions
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| The U.S. Marine Corps has awarded Anduril Industries a $23.9 million contract to deliver more than 600 Bolt-M loitering munition systems, pushing precision strike capability down to dismounted infantry squads beginning in early 2026 (Picture Source: Anduril) |
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Anduril: Bolt-M loitering ammunition for the US Marine Corps
The US Marine Corps (USMC) is expanding its drone portfolio with the Bolt-M from Anduril as part of the Organic Precision Fires-Light (OPF-L) program. As the USMC explains, OPF-L is a new system designed to provide platoons and companies with a “portable, organic and easy-to-operate precision strike capability to engage targets beyond visual range”.
- During this phase, the company delivered an initial tranche of more than 250 Bolt-M systems and validated their performance against a wide range of safety, environmental and performance requirements.
- In hundreds of flights, Bolt-M demonstrated its “category-leading range, endurance and payload capacity against multiple target profiles,” according to the USMC.
- Following the completion of these successful trials, the USMC selected Bolt-M as the initial fielding system.
In the next phase of the program, Anduril will deliver more than 600 Bolt-M systems – including ground stations and ancillary equipment – to the USMC between February 2026 and April 2027. From summer 2026, Bolt-M will be introduced into the first operational naval units, where end users will train and deploy the organic, loitering precision strike options in tactical formations.
- Capacity now exceeds 100 all-up rounds per month.
- This year, Anduril plans to increase production of all Bolt variants to a sustainable rate of over 175 systems per month.
- The contract is worth around 20.5 million euros.
In April 2024, the USMC had already commissioned AeroVironment to supply the Switchblade 300 Block 20 Loitering Munition as part of OPF-L.
This was followed in December 2025 by a further order to Teledyne for more than 600 Rogue 1 Loitering Munitions.
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As an allied combined arms formation rolls quickly through a heavily fortified enemy area, the dangers they face are unknown. Enemy adversaries could be dug in, difficult to identify, and ready to open fire. A soldier launches a drone to perform reconnaissance of the area, spotting a series of dangerous enemy positions. But there are only minutes to convey that critical information to the Battalion and Brigade commanders and adjust tactics before large groups of soldiers advance. With the right software tools, commanders are able to receive and process this information from miles away on a mobile device, and then transmit new orders to their subordinates that integrates real-time intelligence before they engage the enemy. In a matter of seconds, the lethality and effectiveness of the advancing unit is significantly upgraded.
The information age is transforming the battlefield. Soldiers must be equipped to go into battle with the best technology American industry can muster, with connectivity from the outer edge to the operations center. As the battle space becomes digitized — and timely data, information processing, and decision-making decide success or failure — a transformed, modernized Army will need transformed, modernized software, networking, and communications equipment.
Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) is the Army’s answer to this challenge. It’s the principal Army initiative to modernize the service’s communications and networking technologies, equipping the war fighter with seamless and resilient connectivity at the edge while simultaneously supplying commanders with the best decision-making information available — all through a modular, extensible, and open architecture software platform.
Anduril Industries announced that it was awarded a $99.6 million Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreement by Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications, and Network (PEO C3N) to lead the delivery of an NGC2 prototype, integrating partner capabilities from other technology-first companies like Palantir, Striveworks, Govini, Instant Connect Enterprise (ICE), Research Innovations, Inc. (RII), and Microsoft.
- For NGC2, Anduril and its partners will create an ecosystem that can rapidly integrate a range of technologies into a singular architecture so that soldiers can access various kinds of compute, communications, and information processing capabilities all at once.
- Time-sensitive decisions will be faster, and soldiers will be more connected across Corps to Company.
- Critical data might include enemy locations, logistics and sustainment information, terrain mapping, tactical control measures, and weapons statuses.
- In turn, Lattice Mesh will enable machine-to-machine interfaces that deliver effects in a fraction of the time compared to legacy systems and networks.
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Image: Anduril The U.S. Marine Corps has awarded defence technology company Anduril a $23.9 million contract to supply over 600 Bolt-M loitering munition systems under the Organic Precision Fires-Light (OPF-L)
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