aid: forterra
name: Forterra
description: >-
  Forterra is a defense autonomy company headquartered in Clarksburg, Maryland,
  that builds combat-proven autonomous mission systems for ground operations in
  contested, GPS-denied, off-road environments. Founded in 2002 as Robotic
  Research and rebranded as Forterra, it retrofits existing military and
  commercial vehicles with self-driving capability through its AutoDrive
  autonomous driving system, the TerraLink modular vehicle-management and
  command-and-control platform, and the OASIS open architecture that lets the
  government and third-party developers add sensors, effectors, and payloads
  without vendor lock-in. Additional offerings span resilient communications,
  sensing, and ruggedized edge-compute hardware. The company is backed by
  SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Enlightenment Capital and supplies autonomy to
  multiple active U.S. Department of Defense programs. Forterra does not publish
  a public developer API, SDKs, or self-service developer portal; its systems
  are delivered as government and defense-integration programs.
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website: https://www.forterra.com
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  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
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x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
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x-tier: stub
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specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Transportation
- Autonomous Vehicles
- Defense
- Robotics
- Autonomy
- Edge Computing
- National Security
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/forterra-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.forterra.com
- type: About
  url: https://www.forterra.com/about
- type: Products
  url: https://www.forterra.com/platforms
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.forterra.com/news
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.forterra.com/careers
- type: Support
  url: https://www.forterra.com/contact
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.forterra.com/legal/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.forterra.com/legal/privacy-policy
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/forterra-autonomy/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/ForterraDrive
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyZV0C2_hSBInPsiIX46O0Q
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
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