The U.S. Marine Corps awarded Anduril a $23.9 million contract to deliver more than 600 Bolt-M systems for the next phase of the Organic Precision Fires-Light (OPF-L) program beginning in February 2026. The USMC’s OPF-L program is designed to provide dismounted Marine infantry rifle squads with a man-packable, easy-to-operate precision strike capability to engage adversaries beyond line of sight.
The contract award comes after 13 months of rigorous testing. During that phase, Anduril delivered an initial tranche of more than 250 Bolt-M systems and validated Bolt’s performance against a variety of safety, environmental, and performance requirements. Across hundreds of flights, Bolt-M demonstrated its category-leading range, endurance, and payload capacity against multiple target sets. Following that successful testing, the U.S. Marine Corps selected Bolt-M for initial fielding.
Under the next phase of the program, Anduril will deliver more than 600 Bolt-M systems – and associated ground control and ancillary equipment – to the USMC between February 2026 and April 2027. Bolt-M will be fielded into the first operational Marine units beginning in the summer of 2026, where end users will train and employ organic, loitering, precision strike capabilities in tactical formations.
In parallel, Anduril has been investing internally to scale production capacity and processes for Bolt-M to meet the needs of the OPF-L program, and others. Anduril has refined its Bolt production process – across design engineering, supply chain, quality, manufacturing engineering and operations – and the Bolt production facility itself, scaling production capacity to more than 100 all-up-rounds per month. This year, Anduril plans to scale production across Bolt variants to a sustained rate of more than 175 systems per month.
Anduril recently built and delivered more than 300 Bolt systems to another customer within just five months of contract award. That effort validated Anduril’s production ethos: develop, manufacture and deliver category-defining, reliable products at unprecedented speed and scale.
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