Anduril Bags U.S. DoW Contract to Supply Barraduda-500 Stand-off Weapons

The U.S. Department of War (DoW) announced a framework agreement with Anduril Industries to rapidly scale the production of two stand-off strike capability systems - pallet- and lug-launched Barracuda-500.

The agreement signed July 15 outlines a two-phase approach intended to result in the procurement and delivery of thousands of Barracuda-500 vehicles per year for seven years, with initial deliveries beginning in 2027.

The procurement is part of the Ground-Launched Low-Cost Containerized Munition program, where Anduril is set to deliver 1,000 surface-launched Barracuda-500M systems per year for three years. Anduril has been part of the U.S. Air Force’s Family of Affordable Mass Missiles (FAMM) program since 2024. The FAMM program is focused on building large volumes of affordable, producible, and modular long-range strike weapons.

The FAMM program is further divided into several variants aligned to specific launch modalities, including FAMM-L for lug-launched munitions from fighter aircraft and FAMM-P for palletized munitions from airlift aircraft.

Anduril is currently on contract to develop, test, and deliver Barracuda-500 for both FAMM-P and FAMM-L programs. We completed the first successful flight test of Pallet-Launched Barracuda-500M in September 2024 and have since conducted dozens of successful flight tests that have further validated the Barracuda-500 system, including Networked Collaborative Autonomy flights, terminal engagements, and payload performance validation testing.

Anduril joined the FAMM-L program in February 2026 and will execute the first ground and flight tests for Lug-Launched Barracuda-500M in the next several months.

Under the framework agreement, the DoW intends to procure a maximum of 8,000 FAMM vehicles per year, with that total divided across FAMM-P and FAMM-L variants and their associated vendor pools.