AUSA 2025: Anduril EagleEye turns the soldier helmet into a command post.

Anduril introduced EagleEye at AUSA 2025, a modular family of headborne mixed-reality devices that ranges from visor and glasses formats to a full-protection helmet with onboard computing and integrated command functions. The system aims to fold mission planning, augmented perception, and robot or fires control into a single soldier kit, aligning with the Army’s IVAS reset and new prototyping awards to Anduril.

Anduril used the AUSA 2025 floor to show EagleEye, a headborne, AI-enabled kit that fuses a wide-field mixed-reality display, spatial audio, and networked sensors so dismounted troops can plan, maneuver, and coordinate effects without dropping their head from the fight. Company materials and partner statements describe multiple configurations, including a full-face ballistic variant that reprojects the scene for night and degraded visibility, as well as lighter daytime HUD options. The debut tracks with the Army’s decision to shift IVAS work toward Anduril and fund a fresh $159 million prototyping effort under Soldier Borne Mission Command, with industry partners like Gentex and Meta contributing optics, helmet integration, and AR components.
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The EagleEye system is conceived as a helmet-oriented modular architecture (Picture source: Army Recognition)

The EagleEye system is conceived as a helmet-oriented modular architecture. It brings together mission planning, augmented perception, and effects control in a headborne-native format that reduces the carried load and improves optical stability. The full-face variant is not a simple transparent visor, since it relies on complete scene reprojection. The field of view is very wide and places the user in a synthesized environment intended for night phases and degraded visibility. Several configurations coexist to address employment profiles ranging from maneuver units to logistics functions.

Perception and coordination revolve around a heads-up display for daytime and a digital mode for nighttime, with precise blue-force tracking in three-dimensional space. The operator visualizes a teammate’s position not only on a map but also by level or sector inside a building. Real-time data aggregation maintains a common operational picture when terrain or infrastructure interrupts a direct line of sight. The aim is to preserve continuity of information in environments where links are denied, degraded, intermittent, or limited.

Command and control remains integrated within the same set. The operator assigns drone tasks, requests fires, and pilots robots while maintaining mobility, as the interface is native to the helmet and computing is located near the sensors and display. Planning tools include a collaborative three-dimensional board used to prepare and replay maneuvers, to anchor video feeds to terrain, and to adjust the setup during action. The architecture targets interoperability with existing command ecosystems to avoid breaks between training, preparation, and execution.

Protection is treated as a coherent subsystem. The full-face visor provides ballistic coverage across the face and is paired with a reworked helmet that limits relative movement between the head and the optic. A chest plate houses the computer, battery, and radio to consolidate mass and reduce bulk. The approach prioritizes overall efficiency of a compact set rather than the sum of separate elements. Ergonomics and mass distribution support endurance, sensor stability, and reduced fatigue during prolonged use.

The mechanical design accounts for constraints in current helmets, often built to introduce protective rotational slip during impact, a characteristic that complicates the stable placement of a precise display. Development therefore focuses on a helmet optimized for a mixed-reality device to preserve biomechanical protection while maintaining constant optical alignment. This balance between protection and stabilization shapes suitability for prolonged combat, including in urban environments with frequent and rapid changes in orientation.

The device integrates rear and lateral peripheral sensors to extend vision, spatial audio to localize cues, and radio-frequency detection to trigger early alerts. Fusion of these data feeds the projection of pertinent symbols in the field of view. Functional continuity across perception, protection, and command relies on integrated power and computing, which limits exposed cabling, reduces snag points, and simplifies first-line maintenance.

Industrialization follows a platform logic. Variants and modules combine according to mission needs, which favors standardization of a common core and differentiation via specific additions. This strategy supports adaptation to varied scenarios without multiplying hardware references. It also aims for consistency between the helmet, chest or back plate, radios, and sensors to optimize mass distribution and the system’s overall signature.

Anduril designs and integrates sensors, software, and command architectures within a unified set. Deployment of EagleEye depends on technical evaluations and acquisition decisions, followed by export authorizations. If validated, proliferation of this category of integrated full-face helmets is envisioned first within land forces seeking to reduce cognitive load and improve survivability in contested areas, then potentially among partners with compatible cybersecurity and logistics support requirements.

Written By Erwan Halna du Fretay - Defense Analyst, Army Recognition Group

Erwan Halna du Fretay is a graduate of a Master’s degree in International Relations and has experience in the study of conflicts and global arms transfers. His research interests lie in security and strategic studies, particularly the dynamics of the defense industry, the evolution of military technologies, and the strategic transformation of armed forces.