{"id":23448303,"date":"2026-09-19T13:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T11:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/anduril-afrl-volare-digital-aircraft-design-contract-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T13:45:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T11:45:47","slug":"anduril-afrl-volare-digital-aircraft-design-contract-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/fr\/anduril-afrl-volare-digital-aircraft-design-contract-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Anduril Joins the Air Force VOLARE Contract to Design Jets in Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n\r\n<p>Anduril has a new Air Force contract, and the headline number is $85 million. The interesting part is everything the headline number leaves out.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson has put the company on a programme called VOLARE, which unpacks into the gloriously unwieldy Digital System-Level Mission-Driven Integrated Design Methods for Aerospace Systems. What the Air Force is actually buying is software that models an aircraft\u2019s whole vehicle systems, plus methods for designing thermal management.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Not an aircraft. Not a drone. A way of working out what an aircraft should be before anybody cuts metal.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border:1px solid #e2e7ee;padding:20px 24px;margin:26px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:18px;color:#0d1117\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.8;color:#454e5e\"><li><strong>Programme:<\/strong> VOLARE, formally Digital System-Level Mission-Driven Integrated Design Methods for Aerospace Systems<\/li><li><strong>Customer:<\/strong> Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio<\/li><li><strong>Contract type:<\/strong> multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity, with an $85 million shared ceiling<\/li><li><strong>What it buys:<\/strong> software that models an aircraft\u2019s overall vehicle systems, plus thermal management system design methodologies<\/li><li><strong>Where the work happens:<\/strong> Dayton, Ohio<\/li><li><strong>Period of performance:<\/strong> through 17 September 2036<\/li><li><strong>Competitors:<\/strong> eight companies bid<\/li><li><strong>Money actually obligated so far:<\/strong> $50,000, on the first task order, from fiscal 2026 research funds<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">About That $85 Million<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>It is a ceiling, not a cheque, and it is not Anduril\u2019s alone. VOLARE is a multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity vehicle: several companies hold prime positions against the same ceiling and then compete for the individual task orders that come out of it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>We know this because DCS Corporation, of Beavercreek, Ohio, announced its own prime position on 16 September, using the same scope wording and the same number.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;awarded an $85M ceiling, Indefinite Delivery\/Indefinite Quantity multiple award contract&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>DCS Corporation<\/strong> &mdash; Company press release announcing its own prime position on the same contract vehicle, 16 September 2026<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Eight companies competed. So far exactly $50,000 has been obligated, on the first task order, out of fiscal 2026 research funds. That is not a typo, and it is entirely normal for this kind of vehicle. The ceiling describes the maximum the government could spend over a decade if it wanted to. The $50,000 describes what it has actually committed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/anduril-yfq-44a-fury-takeoff-creech-air-force-base.jpg\" alt=\"A US Air Force YFQ-44A Fury taking off for a mission at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Anduril\u2019s YFQ-44A Fury at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada. The VOLARE contract has nothing to do with this aircraft directly; it buys design software. But Fury is why the Air Force takes Anduril seriously as an aerospace company at all. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kristal Munguia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Why Thermal Management Keeps Coming Up<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Look at the scope again: overall vehicle systems, and thermal management system design methodologies. That second item is not filler.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Modern combat aircraft are increasingly limited by heat rather than thrust. Every radar, every processor, every electronic warfare system turns electrical power into waste heat that has to go somewhere, and in a stealthy airframe you cannot simply open a duct and dump it overboard. The same constraint is why the F-35 needs an engine core upgrade before it can carry the Block 4 sensor suite it was promised.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>So an Air Force research programme asking industry for better ways to design thermal management, modelled at system level alongside everything else, is the Air Force admitting it does not want to discover the cooling problem on the flight line again.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vhczBn2Yu-8\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Anduril\u2019s own film on getting the YFQ-44A Fury to first flight. Sixteen million people have watched it, which is a reminder that the company sells a story as effectively as it sells hardware.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Ten Years Is the Real Signal<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The period of performance runs to 17 September 2036. A decade.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Nobody writes a ten-year period of performance for a study. This is the Air Force treating digital design methods as infrastructure it expects to keep buying and refining across multiple future aircraft programmes, in the same way it buys wind tunnel time.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Anduril has form here beyond the airframes. In April 2026 it won a Naval Postgraduate School and Office of Naval Research prize for a proposal folding digital modelling, simulation and flight testing into one development process for tactical missiles. VOLARE points the same philosophy at aircraft.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>It is not a glamorous award. It will not fly past anyone at an airshow. But the companies that end up designing the aircraft after next are the ones holding the tools, and the Air Force just spent ten years\u2019 worth of contracting authority deciding who gets to build them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:14px;color:#777\">Sources: US Department of Defense contract announcements; DCS Corporation press release, 16 September 2026; Defence Blog.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>What is the Air Force VOLARE contract?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">VOLARE stands for Digital System-Level Mission-Driven Integrated Design Methods for Aerospace Systems. It is an Air Force Research Laboratory programme buying software that models an aircraft\u2019s overall vehicle systems, together with thermal management system design methodologies. The contracting activity is at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How much is the Anduril VOLARE contract worth?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The ceiling is $85 million, but that figure is shared. VOLARE is a multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity vehicle, so several companies hold prime positions against the same ceiling and compete for individual task orders. So far only $50,000 has actually been obligated, on the first task order, from fiscal 2026 research money.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Who else won a place on VOLARE?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">DCS Corporation of Beavercreek, Ohio announced on 16 September 2026 that it had also been awarded a prime position, with the same $85 million ceiling and the same scope wording. Eight companies competed in total. Any coverage describing the award as a single $85 million win for one company is incomplete.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How long does the VOLARE contract run?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The period of performance runs through 17 September 2036, a ten-year window. Work is performed in Dayton, Ohio. A decade is a long horizon for a software contract, which tells you the Air Force sees this as infrastructure rather than a one-off study.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Why does the Air Force want to design aircraft in software?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Because building and flying prototypes to find out what does not work is slow and expensive. If the overall vehicle systems and the thermal management can be modelled accurately enough, problems surface in the model rather than on the flight line. The thermal part matters most: modern combat aircraft are limited by how much heat they can shed, not only by how much thrust they make.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What else has Anduril done in this area?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">In April 2026 the company won a Naval Postgraduate School and Office of Naval Research prize for a proposal combining digital modelling, simulation and flight testing into a single development process for tactical missiles. VOLARE applies a related idea to aircraft rather than weapons.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Is VOLARE connected to Anduril\u2019s YFQ-44A Fury?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Not directly. VOLARE is a research contract for design methods and software, not for an aircraft. 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