Completing RACER: What It Took to Clear the Highest Bar in Ground Autonomy

DARPA pushed Overland to solve the hardest problem in ground autonomy right from the beginning of our company’s origin: building a reliable and resilient software stack that can be integrated into any ground vehicle. We have proven our autonomy on fleet vehicles, heavy platforms, and most recently on ULTRA, our own fully autonomous tactical vehicle built in-house and in production today. These efforts, spanning the entirety of the RACER program, have always been aimed at expanding the art of the possible with ground autonomy. But we also accelerated the moment autonomy became operationally fielded, which has meant that warfighters will have access to ground autonomy that is both proven and ready. DARPA accelerated our technology through RACER. And we are providing the results back to the warfighter today.