Deployment
ULTRA at United States
Overland AI (Seattle, Washington, founded 2022) manufactures the ULTRA, a fully autonomous uncrewed ground vehicle for military operations including reconnaissance, logistics resupply, counter-drone, and breaching in GPS-denied and extreme environments. The ULTRA reaches 56 km/h, carries 453 kg of payload, and has a cruising range of 160 km running on Overland AI's proprietary OverDrive autonomy software and SPARK hardware.
The US Marine Corps has purchased ULTRA vehicles and US troops have evaluated it in tactical scenarios; Overland AI raised $100 million in February 2026 to scale production with US armed forces.
ULTRA by Overland AI · Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verified · Defense UGV
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Overland AI ULTRA autonomous tactical vehicle tested with US Army and Marine Corps. Marine Corps awarded production contract worth nearly 20M for self-driving military vehicles. Previously secured 18.6M contract with US Army.
Key facts
- Operator
- US Marine Corps, US Army
- Contract value
- USD 20M (Marine Corps)
Exposure
- Customer segment
- defense
- Scale tier
- commercial 10 99
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Safety record
No incidents on record for ULTRA at United States.
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- Trust tier
- Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verifiedhow tiers work →
- Last updated
- 2026-08-21
- Model
- ULTRA
- Company
- Overland AI
- Location
- United States
- Operator
- Overland AI
- Status
- operational
- Scale at site
- 11 to 100 units
- Site environment
- mixed
- Location precision
- verified coordinates
- First seen
- 2026-06-29
- ID
4fe013d0-e918-4bec-b5e0-d39602e790da
Timeline
- Jun 2026First recordedULTRA first documented operating at United States.
- Aug 2026Current status: operational, reviewedLatest recorded state. New status transitions append here as the deployment-status recorder produces them.
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Sources (1)
- Overland AI lands Marine Corps deal worth nearly 20M to build self-driving military vehicles · https://www.geekwire.com/2026/overland-ai-lands-marine-corps-deal-worth-nearly-20m-to-build-self-driving-military-vehicles/ · 2026-06-29
Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: research
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: defense_ugv
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
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