Archer Acquires Overair IP and Mission Critical Composites Facility in Latest Development to its Defense Program

Archer have today (Thurs­day) announced two strate­gic acqui­si­tions to accel­er­ate the devel­op­ment of its next-gen­er­a­tion defense air­craft.

These acqui­si­tions build on Archer’s Decem­ber 2024 announce­ment of a strate­gic part­ner­ship with Anduril to co-devel­op hybrid, autonomous VTOL mil­i­tary air­craft — fol­lowed by $1.3B in cap­i­tal raised to pur­sue both defense and com­mer­cial oppor­tu­ni­ties.

Since that announce­ment, Archer con­tin­ues to see grow­ing demand from major allied defense pro­grams world­wide.

To help meet that demand, Archer acquired a patent port­fo­lio and hired crit­i­cal employ­ees from Overair, a spin-off of Karem Air­craft. Karem Air­craft devel­oped and man­u­fac­tured advanced fixed-wing and rotary-wing air­craft focused on the use of high-effi­cien­cy tiltro­tors.

Archer also acquired key com­pos­ite man­u­fac­tur­ing assets and an approx­i­mate­ly ~60,000 square foot man­u­fac­tur­ing facil­i­ty from Mis­sion Crit­i­cal Com­pos­ites, a spe­cial­ized defense com­pos­ite man­u­fac­tur­er in South­ern Cal­i­for­nia.

These assets allow Archer to bring core com­pos­ite fab­ri­ca­tion capa­bil­i­ties in-house, sup­port­ing its defense pro­gram needs for rapid pro­to­typ­ing and iter­a­tion.

Both acqui­si­tions come on the heels of strong indus­try momen­tum with the recent announce­ment of a bud­get request allo­ca­tion by the Pen­ta­gon of $13.4 bil­lion for autonomous mil­i­tary sys­tems.

Adam Gold­stein, founder and CEO of Archer said, “The Admin­is­tra­tion has made it clear: Lead­ing in advanced avi­a­tion in both com­mer­cial and defense is a nation­al pri­or­i­ty. These acqui­si­tions are part of our commitment—we’re work­ing to accel­er­ate our prod­uct devel­op­ment to meet our country’s needs.”