Offroad Autonomy Inc.

Offroad Autonomy Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business subsidiary of Field Ai Inc., develops autonomous vehicle and quadruped robot locomotion technologies for the Department of the Army and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency as a prime contractor, competing exclusively under small-business set-asides (Total Small Business) or full-and-open designations on applied research and defense R&D contracts.

Offroad Autonomy Inc. is a for-profit corporate entity headquartered in Mission Viejo, California, with a footprint concentrated in defense autonomy research and development under NAICS 541711 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences). The vendor's parent company, Field Ai Inc., is also a self-certified small disadvantaged business; the parent-subsidiary relationship is formal but the source does not characterize the operational or financial structure between them.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on autonomous locomotion for uncrewed ground systems. Representative prime work includes a $2.0 million firm fixed-price definitive contract (A254-P030) awarded by the Army on January 30, 2026, for the VANGUARD (Vehicle Autonomy for Next-Generation Unmanned Autonomous Reconnaissance and Detection) program, with performance in Irvine, California and completion targeted for July 30, 2027; a $249,931 Total Small Business definitive contract awarded by the Army on April 13, 2026, for mud adaptive locomotion (MAL) technology enabling quadruped robots to traverse muddy terrain, with completion scheduled for October 12, 2026; and a $308,523 full-and-open definitive contract awarded by DARPA on September 27, 2024, under the Embedded Entrepreneurship Initiative (EEI) to transition commercial autonomy solutions into defense capabilities. Offroad Autonomy Inc. also holds a $1.0 million multiple-award Other Transaction IDV awarded by DARPA on January 1, 2025, for the IMPALA research project, structured outside the Federal Acquisition Regulation.

Customer concentration is split evenly between the Department of the Army (2 awards, $2.2 million combined potential value) and DARPA (2 awards, $1.3 million combined potential value), representing 100% of the vendor's tracked award footprint. Activity is nascent: one award in 2024, one in 2025, and two in 2026, for a combined obligated value of $3.6 million across four awards. Two awards (combined potential value $2.2 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete risk. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor; no subcontract footprint is present in the source.

Offroad Autonomy is a start-up company formed in 2023 by scientists and engineers who worked together in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge and the DARPA RACER program. The company researches, develops, and sells software and services; the company does not develop hardware.

In a nutshell, the key capability is autonomy software that enables unmanned systems to operate without GPS in terrain that is unmapped. The software is agnostic to the mobility platform and has already run on bipedal and quadrupedal legged robots, wheeled vehicles, and tracked vehicles.

The Offroad Autonomy system rapidly adapts pre-trained Machine Learning models to novel terrains and environments. This dramatically reduces the burden of the massive data gathering needed by other learning-based perception methods.

Other key capabilities include the following:

Autonomy

Robotics

Machine Perception

Machine Learning

Computer Vision

Precision Positioning

Path Planning