Overland AI Timeline

Events

• 2026-08-12 - Facility Opening - Overland AI opens Bay Area robot-operations and engineering centre - The site supports remote tasking, monitoring and operation of Overland’s autonomous vehicle fleets. Overland plans to double its Bay Area headcount during the following six months. The location expands engineering and operating capacity alongside the… - source: overland.ai
• 2026-06-29 - Contract Award - Overland AI wins $20M APFIT production OTA for U.S. Marine Corps autonomous ground vehicles - The award comes through the APFIT program with PM Ground Based Air Defense, U.S. Marine Corps, and is framed as a production OTA agreement. The contract funds autonomous ground vehicles in support of the Marine Air Defense Integrated System, or MADIS.… - source: globenewswire.com
• 2026-05-14 - Demonstration - Overland AI demonstrates ULTRA combat capabilities during African Lion 2026 - The exercise ran April 20 through May 8 at the Cap Draa Training Area during U.S. Africa Command’s largest annual joint exercise. Overland trained soldiers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade and 7th Engineer Brigade and Marines from 2nd Combat Engineer… - source: globenewswire.com
• 2026-04-23 - Demonstration - Overland AI demonstrates autonomous ground capability for USMC ROGUE Fires - The prototype used OverDrive and SPARK to support autonomous maneuver in expeditionary, GPS-denied and comms-denied environments. Overland said the ROGUE Fires prototype operated without human intervention over mixed terrain for several hours. The… - source: globenewswire.com
• 2026-03-11 - Partnership - Hoverfly Technologies and Overland AI expand collaboration on integrated air-ground unmanned capabilities - Overland AI and Hoverfly expanded their collaboration to pair Hoverfly's tethered UAS platforms with autonomous ground maneuver from Overland's ULTRA and OverDrive stack. The combined system was presented as a multi-domain unmanned capability for persistent… - source: overland.ai
• 2026-02-03 - Funding - Overland AI raises $100M package to scale ground autonomy with U.S. Armed Forces - Overland AI announced $100M in new funding to scale operations with end users across the U.S. Armed Forces. The total included an equity round led by 8VC and a $20M venture debt facility from TriplePoint Capital. The company said the capital would support… - source: overland.ai
• 2026-01-20 - Demonstration - CAL FIRE and Overland AI lead first evaluation of autonomous ground vehicles for wildfire response - CAL FIRE and Overland AI conducted an initial evaluation of autonomous ground vehicles for wildfire response. The exercise assessed unmanned ground mobility in conditions relevant to emergency and fire operations. - source: overland.ai
• 2025-04-14 - Product Launch - Overland AI unveils ULTRA, a fully autonomous tactical vehicle for ground operations - Overland AI unveiled ULTRA as a fully autonomous tactical ground vehicle. The platform is designed for off-road defence missions without continuous human driving. - source: overland.ai
• 2025-03-27 - Demonstration - Overland AI showcases its fully autonomous tactical vehicle at an Army Applications Lab demo - Overland AI demonstrated its autonomous tactical vehicle through an Army Applications Laboratory event. The vehicle executed off-road ground-mobility tasks using the company’s autonomy stack. - source: overland.ai
• 2025-03-18 - Product Launch - Overland AI launches SPARK to deliver vehicle autonomy to military fleets - Overland AI launched SPARK as a vehicle-agnostic autonomy system for military fleets. The product is intended to convert existing ground vehicles for autonomous tactical operation. - source: overland.ai
• 2025-03-17 - Facility Opening - Overland AI opens a new factory in Seattle for advanced ground autonomy manufacturing - Overland AI opened a new factory in Seattle to manufacture off-road autonomous vehicles and autonomy systems at greater scale. The facility-opening milestone sat alongside the company's SPARK and ULTRA launches as it moved from autonomy software toward… - source: overland.ai
• 2025-01-21 - Product Launch - Overland AI unveils OverWatch command-and-control software for tactical ground autonomy - Overland AI unveiled OverWatch as command-and-control software for autonomous ground systems. The interface supports mission planning and supervision of tactical unmanned vehicles. - source: overland.ai
• 2025-01-13 - Funding - Overland AI raises $32M Series A to advance ground autonomy for U.S. defense forces - Overland AI announced a $32M Series A to accelerate adoption of ground autonomy for defense and national security. The round was led by 8VC, with Point72 Ventures, Overmatch Ventures, Shasta Ventures, Ascend, Osage University Partners and Caprock… - source: overland.ai
• 2024-01-10 - Contract Award - Overland AI is awarded an $18.6M-ceiling prototype OT for U.S. Army robotic combat vehicle autonomy - The U.S. Army awarded Overland AI a prototype Other Transaction with an $18.6 million ceiling. The programme covers autonomous navigation for the Army’s Robotic Combat Vehicle. - source: overland.ai