Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced on June 30 that it selected Anduril as "a preferred edge provider" for national security and defense, partnering to provide high-capacity computing and AI for targeting and sensor fusion in a mobile data center built for austere conditions at the tactical edge. The Anduril mobile data centers will use AWS Outpost, adapted from Amazon’s cloud computing, to bring the capabilities of a massive local data center to the tactical level in a combat theater. Tom Keane, Senior Vice President of Engineering at Anduril, said they designed the systems "to run at the extreme tactical edge," noting that power, air conditioning, and communications are less reliable there. A typical mission with the F-35 Lightning II might require up to eight human operators and take nearly two days to program, but with mobile data center support, aircraft personnel can accomplish the same tasks with two people in about two hours. Darrell West, senior fellow for the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institute, wrote that mobile data centers provide flexibility and lower latency versus distant data centers, which can be important for real-time targeting decisions.