Anduril Takes On China With New Made-In-USA Laptop
American defense contractor Anduril is teaming up with Qualcomm to manufacture military laptops in the United States, launching an ambitious effort to revive domestic computer production after decades of outsourcing overseas.
Francis Kapper · Oct 27, 2026 · 4 min read
American defense contractor Anduril is teaming up with Qualcomm to manufacture military laptops in the United States, launching an ambitious effort to revive domestic computer production after decades of outsourcing overseas.
The new laptop, called BlueChip, will be assembled in America using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Series processors, with orders expected to begin in 2027, according to Anduril. China has become so dominant in global electronics manufacturing that some essential computer components are produced nowhere else in the world, leaving American manufacturers dependent on Chinese suppliers, Luckey said during Monday’s media briefing.
Anduril founder Palmer Luckey confirmed during a Monday media briefing attended by the Daily Caller News Foundation that military officials have already expressed informal interest in purchasing the laptops, which are being tested with the company’s battlefield command-and-control software.
Lattice is Anduril’s artificial intelligence-powered command-and-control platform, which combines battlefield surveillance data from thousands of sensors and allows military operators to monitor threats, coordinate drone operations and direct autonomous weapons systems, according to Anduril.
“Lattice is already on it,” Luckey said during the Monday Anduril media briefing unveiling the plans to create the new BlueChip laptops.
“We’ve already been running that. We’ve already been testing it,” Luckey added. He said the company has run the software on BlueChip using Windows and two “flavors” of Linux popular with the military.
Anduril has also made Lattice run natively on Qualcomm’s processors rather than relying on software that translates programs designed for other chips, Luckey said during the briefing.
The U.S. military is already in “informal” communications with Anduril to purchase the laptops, Luckey said. He stressed that discussions with government personnel do not constitute contracts or commitments to spend taxpayer money.
Existing defense customers have raised concerns about the security of computers they currently use, including risks that sensitive information could be stolen, Luckey said during the press briefing. He suggested BlueChip could give agencies greater control over hardware components and the software installed on their systems.