The award puts Overland AI's autonomy software into a four-company contest to move combat engineers farther from obstacles and minefields.
Six commercial trucks will carry mine-clearing, lane-marking and counter-drone payloads for combat engineers under a $14.3 million sole-source Overland AI contract due in October 2027.
The Overland AI ULTRA is a purpose-built, fully autonomous American uncrewed ground vehicle pairing the DARPA RACER-derived OverDrive autonomy stack with a modular light platform — the subject of the US Marine Corps' first production buy of autonomous ground vehicles.
The Marine Corps' first production buy of a fully autonomous ground vehicle hands a Seattle startup a $19.7M deal to resupply its frontline counter-drone system.