LTG Pat O’Reilly (Ret.) Joins Overwatch Imaging as an Operating Advisor

Overwatch Imaging is pleased to announce that Lieutenant General Pat O’Reilly (U.S. Army, Ret.) has joined the company as an Operating Advisor, bringing decades of strategic leadership, defense program management, and advanced technology expertise to support the company’s strategic growth initiatives.

LTG O’Reilly is currently an Operating Partner with Shield Capital, following his recent retirement from L3Harris Technologies, where he served as VP of Venture Technology. Pat served as an observer on the Overwatch Imaging board of directors for several years, providing valuable insight as the company expanded into the US Department of Defense (DoD) and with major defense prime contractors. As an Operating Advisor at Overwatch Imaging, LTG O’Reilly will advise the company’s leadership team on operational strategy, corporate and DoD engagement, and technology adoption pathways in support of national security.

“We’re honored to welcome LTG Pat O’Reilly as an Operating Advisor,” said Greg Davis, Founder and CEO of Overwatch Imaging. “He’s a perfect fit for Overwatch Imaging. Throughout his career, Pat has developed and championed technologies that accelerate decision-making and improve mission outcomes.

His deep understanding of government requirements and acquisition processes, combined with his history and familiarity with Overwatch Imaging as a board observer, makes him uniquely positioned to help guide us through our next phase of growth.”

LTG O’Reilly brings a distinguished career spanning more than 30 years in the U.S. Army, including service as the Director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). He has led major defense acquisition programs, overseen complex R&D portfolios, and driven innovation across emerging sensor, surveillance, and aerospace technologies.

“The technology that Overwatch Imaging is bringing to DoD and other customers is exactly what they need,” LTG O’Reilly noted. “Defense and Intelligence agencies are prioritizing autonomy for crew workload reduction, and are looking for solutions to find more threats, more quickly."

"I have worked with a lot of innovative technologies in my career, and Overwatch is one of very few that leads with technology adoption and real-world applications rather than conceptual aspirations.”

Following his military service, LTG O’Reilly has continued to work with high-growth technology companies, helping bridge cutting-edge commercial innovation with national security needs. His experience in advanced sensing systems, autonomy, and multi-domain defense operations aligns directly with Overwatch Imaging’s mission and capabilities.

“I am excited to continue working with Overwatch Imaging, to help capture the value their mission-ready sensor autonomy provides, and to help us transition from an emerging solution to a core part of major sensing and sense-making systems,” LTG O’Reilly added.

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About Overwatch Imaging

Overwatch Imaging is an imagery intelligence technology company working to bring sensor autonomy to time-critical airborne search, detection, tracking and monitoring missions. Our Automated Sensor Operator (ASO) software, native to our own line of purpose-built Smart Sensors and as an upgrade for airborne video gimbal platforms, brings Superhuman Vision and Workload Reduction to users of real-time imagery intelligence systems. We fundamentally believe that modern edge processing and AI-enabled autonomy can perform an important set of time-critical imagery intelligence missions better, faster and more safely than humans can alone.

Founded in 2016 in Hood River, Oregon, we support private sector companies as well as federal, state and local agencies around the world with missions ranging from wildfire mapping and disaster response to law enforcement, border security, maritime domain awareness and tactical intelligence.