The Army Just Paid $20 Million for the Breaching Contract It Promised Overland AI in July
The award puts Overland AI's autonomy software into a four-company contest to move combat engineers farther from obstacles and minefields.
Boeing brings the seeker and the airframe. Anduril brings the solid rocket motor, from a Mississippi plant it built because US motor supply had narrowed to two vendors.
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 Army is paying $46 million for an autonomous hybrid-VTOL that can resupply several positions per sortie with no runway, no pilot and nobody at the drop point, and to make that work under jamming.
The Army is buying 82 runway-free reconnaissance drones for its battalions and wants them delivered within seven weeks, from the maker of the Switchblade munitions sent to Ukraine.