Overflags, originally known as both the Anti-Gundam Investigative Squad and United States of America 8th Independent Tactical Fighter Squadron, was a team made up of researchers and elite pilots from the Union of Solar Energy and Free Nations, assembled for the purpose of defeating, capturing, and analyzing the Gundams in Mobile Suit Gundam 00. The team was led by Professor Ralph Eifman, for research and development and Union ace Graham Aker for military missions. The team is named after its main stay mobile suit the SVMS-01O Over Flag.