Anduril: From 5-hour test loops to real-time analysis | Nominal

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Anduril partnered with Nominal to unify test analysis across autonomous vehicle programs — cutting review time from 5+ hours to near real-time across 300+ engineers.
Nominal gives us confidence that every flight contributes to learning. Data loads forty times faster, analysis is instantaneous, and the entire organization sees the same context. That combination of speed and shared visibility is mission-critical.
Anduril operates on a clear premise: test volume drives capability. More tests means more learning. More learning means faster iteration. This philosophy extends across all domains: air, land, sea, and space.
But test volume creates a constraint: analysis infrastructure. The ability to manage and process test data is a limiting factor at-scale.
High-tempo testing across Anduril’s vehicle programs produces massive data volumes: high-frequency telemetry at 1-10 kHz across thousands of channels, onboard video from multiple cameras, logs capturing autonomy decisions, and operator annotations tracking failures and configurations.
Before Nominal, this data landed in dozens of different storage systems and analysis tools spanning test sites and customer operations worldwide. Each program and team had evolved their own stack for operationalizing test data. Sharing insight required manual exports, screenshots over Slack, or learning another team’s bespoke analysis workflow. Test tempo accelerated but the ability to run analysis did not.
Anduril adopted Nominal as the analysis platform underpinning its test and evaluation workflows across a number of Anduril programs, a unified solution where every signal from multiple products could be captured, synchronized, and understood.
Nominal Core ingests multimodal data from every source, automatically collates and aligns it, and makes it rapidly queryable by engineers and operators of all stripes.
A test engineer at headquarters, mission operator at a remote range, and software lead at a development facility all work from the same organized catalog of Runs and Assets.
Flight test engineers build Workbook templates for post-flight analysis: motor performance, battery discharge, control loop stability, perception accuracy. Specialists define the logic once (which derivatives, which comparisons, which metrics) and save it as a template that any engineer or operator can utilize.
Analysis that required custom Python scripting for each flight (multiple hours, specialist-only) now takes any user minutes. Specialists shifted from repetitive work to investigating anomalies and developing new methodologies.
The transformation: A bottleneck once limited to a few specialists became a capability shared across entire engineering teams.
Anduril must perform operations in austere test ranges with limited connectivity and within classified environments that have no egress to the cloud. Nominal Core deploys to servers at the edge, processing high-rate data locally with sub-250ms latency. Real-time monitoring, automated anomaly detection, and electronic procedures execute live during tests. When connectivity returns, data flows back into centralized storage without manual handling, enabling mission operators at austere ranges to have the same capabilities as engineers at headquarters.
As Anduril has scaled their product lines, Nominal has scaled with them. What started as a fast way to review flight logs for small UAVs became the shared workspace for engineers analyzing mission data across all domains.
The same infrastructure supports different sensors and different operational contexts. A control systems insight from an aerial vehicle informs maritime autonomy development. A perception algorithm tested on ground platforms transfers to flight. Cross-domain learning becomes standard practice.
The mission is urgent. Threats don't wait for perfect tools. Anduril tests aggressively, learns quickly, and ships capability at a pace that the moment demands.
Instrument everything. Understand quickly. Iterate relentlessly.
Those are the operating principles Anduril and Nominal share. High velocity testing delivers decisive advantage.
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