Menace-I Brings Unmatched Data Processing to the Tactical Edge

U.S. Marines recently demonstrated new tactical mobility by sling-loading Anduril’s Menace-I beneath a CH-53K King Stallion helicopter. From a distance the system resembled a standard gray shipping container; up close it functions as a fully deployable node for mission planning, coordination, and data processing—offering the power, climate control, compute, connectivity, and security of a fixed facility in a transportable package.

Turnkey Accredited Facility in Minutes

Menace-I is a turnkey C5ISR solution—covering command, control, compute, communications, cyber, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. It is accredited for use as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) and a Special Access Program Facility (SAPF). Once positioned, Menace-I can be set up and fully operational in under ten minutes, enabling classified mission planning and battle management in forward, contested environments.

Solving the Connectivity and Setup Problem

Historically, classified operations required fixed SCIFs or Temporary-SCIFs that take a day or more to establish—an unacceptable timeline for expeditionary units that maneuver in hours. Traditional reach-back to distant data centers over SATCOM is also fragile in denied or degraded environments. Menace-I addresses both challenges by bringing accredited compute and secure networking directly to the point of need, eliminating dependence on tenuous links to remote data centers.

Mobility Validated Across Marine Corps Platforms

The recent sling-load operation validated Menace-I as a fully integrated mission-planning solution that is transportable by all organic Marine Corps assets—truck, KC-130J Super Hercules, and rotary-wing aircraft. That mobility allows expeditionary command nodes to relocate with the force, ensuring secure planning and command capabilities keep pace with maneuvering units.

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Petabyte-Scale AI and HPC at the Edge

Meeting modern AI, analytics, and data-fusion demands requires massive compute and storage—traditionally only available in centralized data centers. In July, Anduril delivered the first Menace-I configured for petabyte-scale operations. This configuration multiplies compute capacity (tens of thousands of cores), provides petabyte-level storage, and brings high-performance computing and GPU acceleration to the tactical edge. The result: AI workloads, mission planning, and data fusion can be executed locally and in seconds—without reliance on reach-back.

Voyager: Rugged Edge Compute Foundation

At the heart of Menace-I is Voyager, Anduril’s family of rugged edge communications and computing platforms. Voyager is built for extreme environments and resilient against electronic attack and jamming. Its modular design supports quick adaptation to diverse mission sets, and it is widely fielded with militaries and special operations forces as a trusted solution for expeditionary compute.

Cross-Domain Capability with Everfox

Effective operations require secure, high-assurance data movement across classification boundaries and domains (land, air, sea, space, cyber). Voyager now serves as the preferred edge hardware for Everfox’s cross-domain solutions, enabling enterprise-grade transfer of data between classification levels in expeditionary settings. Integrated into the Menace family, Everfox ensures imagery, targeting data, and mission plans can flow safely and quickly between unclassified and classified networks—accelerating decision cycles at the edge.

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Operational Today

Menace-I is fielded with customers and partners today, empowering forward-deployed forces to plan, process, and execute with the speed, security, and mobility required in contested battlespaces. What once took a day or more to provision can now be established in under ten minutes—bringing the data center to the fight.