DIU and US Navy Select Anduril for XL-AUV Program

The United States needs the ability to deploy large payloads across extended ranges underwater. For this reason, the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the U.S. Navy have selected Anduril to address the persistent operational gap beneath the waves through participation in the Combat Autonomous Maritime Platform Project (CAMP). Anduril was selected via DIU’S competitive Commercial Solutions Opening after having completed the longest XL-AUV demonstration conducted to date, validating extended-range performance and system endurance in operationally relevant conditions. Anduril's autonomous undersea vehicles to-date have accumulated over 42,355km and 6,752 hours of mission time, proving the maturity, reliability, and long-duration capability required for distributed maritime operations.

CAMP is a U.S. Department of War effort to rapidly prototype and field extra-large autonomous underwater vehicles (XL-AUVs). Under its auspices, Anduril will complete a long-duration, operationally representative demonstration of Dive-XL within 4 months of contract award. Anduril currently operates multiple Dive-XL vehicles in the United States. For the U.S. Navy, CAMP is a significant step forward — enabling experimentation with XL-AUVs at meaningful scale and establishing a deliberate pathway toward wide-scale adoption and operational deployment.

Anduril’s ability to deliver Dive-XL is rooted in a record of successful execution in Australia and the U.S. alike. In 2025, Anduril won a program of record with the Royal Australian Navy for Ghost Shark, delivering an extra-large autonomous undersea vehicle and dedicated production facility on timelines that traditional programs could not match. That work demonstrated that Anduril’s approach reduces risk and accelerates delivery. Today, Anduril is producing Dive-XLs in Sydney, Australia, and has a purpose-built facility in Quonset Point, Rhode Island designed to deliver dozens of Dive-XLs and hundreds of Dive-LDs per year.

Long-range autonomous undersea systems have the potential to change the balance beneath the waves. They are intended to allow the United States and its allies to extend reach, hold risk at distance, and operate persistently in contested environments. Control of the undersea domain underwrites control of the sea itself, and Dive-XL marks the shift from concept to reality.