Anduril announced a multi-year partnership with Dirac. Dirac is a manufacturing technology company that builds AI tools for production. Their main product is BuildOS, which is the first AI-driven platform for work instructions. BuildOS replaces old document-based methods with a dynamic, model-based system. It keeps a live digital model of the product, the factory, and how they connect, including details like geometry, structure, variants, physics, assembly steps, stations, tools, and material flow. The AI in BuildOS reasons over structured data to interpret CAD files, figure out assembly steps, find dependencies, and update production plans when engineering changes happen.
Anduril chose Dirac after reviewing other enterprise solutions and its own internal options. BuildOS is now a core part of Anduril’s manufacturing infrastructure. It deploys in an Anduril-hosted, ITAR-compliant cloud environment. It became operational in days, even before full integrations with PLM and MES systems. Anduril’s Internal Tools team, with about 280 people supporting over 35 product lines, made this choice.
In early use, Anduril saw an average 87.5% reduction in time to create work instructions. A process that took 12 business hours now takes about 90 minutes, giving roughly a 10x speedup on a key coordination step. Before this, over 100 manufacturing engineers spent around 50% of their time manually writing and updating instructions, which added up to thousands of hours per week on documentation and fixes.
BuildOS automatically generates instructions from the model, so no manual writing or rewriting is needed. It provides ongoing feedback for Design-for-Manufacturability, shows cost, tooling, and throughput issues earlier, and keeps design and production in sync. Engineering changes now spread through production in minutes instead of days. Builds can be re-sequenced right away. Production lines adapt quickly to design updates. This helps reduce time to build, costs, and risks before full production starts. It lets teams focus on improving products instead of maintaining documents.
Cy Sack, Head of Business Systems at Anduril, said the Dirac team understands manufacturing at a system level and executes quickly in complex settings. Matt Grimm, Co-Founder and COO of Anduril, noted that Dirac’s BuildOS will become a core enabler of Arsenal OS, Anduril’s digital manufacturing software ecosystem. Fil Aronshtein, Co-Founder and CEO of Dirac, highlighted that Anduril moves with software speed and sees the value in this approach.
Anduril’s products are modular, configurable, and change quickly, which created challenges in keeping work instructions up to date. This partnership helps solve coordination bottlenecks between fast engineering and careful factory processes.
