AeroVironment Awarded $874M Foreign Military Sales IDIQ to Deliver UAS and C-UAS Systems to Allied & Partner Forces
AeroVironment (AV) (
NASDAQ: AVAV), a global leader in all-domain autonomous systems, has been awarded a five-year Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract worth $874.26 million from the U.S. Army Contracting Command. This contract will support future foreign military sales (FMS) through the Program Executive Office (PEO) Aviation, enabling allied and partner forces to procure a range of Groups 1-3 unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and counter-UAS (C-UAS) systems from AV’s extensive portfolio of defense technology offerings. The systems available under this IDIQ contract include specific variations of the JUMP 20™, P550™, Puma™, Raven™, and Titan C-UAS™ systems along with training, initial spares packages, and logistics support.
AV Awarded $13.2M Contract to Provide P550 UAS for U.S. Army’s Long Range Reconnaissance (LRR) Program
AV, with partner Parry Labs, has been awarded a 3-year Other Transaction Agreement with an initial base contract value of $13.2M with additional options for a total potential contract value of $42M to provide the newly developed P550™ uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) for the U.S. Army’s Long Range Reconnaissance (LRR) program. The all-battery electric, high-performance P550 delivers long-range intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities alongside lethal effects crucial to the LRR mission. AV will deliver P550 system updates along with support and documentation deliverables to the U.S. Army, PEO Aviation, PM UAS, PdM SUAS for testing, evaluation, and integration into the Army Family of Systems. This award is in addition to the previously announced delivery of P550 systems to PM UAS.
AeroVironment Hires Milancy Harris as Vice President and Chief Security Officer
AeroVironment, Inc. (“AV”) (
NASDAQ: AVAV) today announced that Milancy Harris has joined the company as Vice President and Chief Security Officer (CSO). In this role, Harris will lead AV’s integrated, enterprise-wide security strategy—strengthening the company’s ability to protect its people, programs, technologies, and customers across a rapidly expanding mission portfolio.
AeroVironment Expands Puma™ Visual Navigation System (VNS) Kit to Puma LE
AeroVironment, Inc. (“AV”) (
NASDAQ: AVAV), a global leader in all-domain defense systems, today announced the integration of its Visual Navigation System (VNS) kit with the Puma™ Long Endurance (LE) small unmanned aircraft system (SUAS), delivering Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)-denied navigation capability to ensure mission success.
AeroVironment Announces Expansion of AV_Halo™ Unified Software Platform with CORTEX and MENTOR
AeroVironment, Inc. (“AV”) (
NASDAQ: AVAV), a global defense technology leader delivering software-enabled disruptive autonomous systems, today announced the next phase of its AV_Halo™ unified mission software platform with the release of AV_Halo CORTEX, a next-generation intelligence fusion and analysis environment, and AV_Halo MENTOR, a warfighter readiness suite that spans immersive virtual and/or augmented reality (VR/AR) weapons training and mission rehearsal.
AeroVironment, Inc. to Announce Second Quarter of Fiscal Year 2026 Earnings and Host Conference Call
AeroVironment, Inc. (“AV”) (
NASDAQ: AVAV) will report its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2026, which ended November 1, 2025, after the market closes on December 9, 2025. Management will host a conference call and live audio webcast at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time that same day to discuss the results.
AeroVironment, Inc. to Present at Goldman Sachs’ Industrials and Materials Conference
AeroVironment, Inc. (“AV”) (
NASDAQ: AVAV) will participate in the upcoming Goldman Sachs’ Industrials and Materials Conference in New York, New York. AV’s chairman, president and chief executive officer, Wahid Nawabi, and AV’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, Kevin McDonnell, will take part in a fireside chat on December 3 at 8:00 a.m. ET | 9:00 a.m. CT | 11:00 a.m. PT. The fireside chat will be available by webcast at the times listed above and archived on our website at the below link:
AV and OpenJAUS Announce Collaboration for Autonomous Uncrewed System (UxS) Interoperability
AeroVironment, Inc. (“AV”) (
NASDAQ: AVAV), a global defense technology leader delivering software-enabled disruptive autonomous systems, today announced a collaboration with OpenJAUS, LLC., a leader in middleware software solutions for unmanned and robotic systems, to integrate the JAUS standard into AV_Halo™ Command, a first-of-its-kind cross-architecture software solution for controlling uncrewed systems (UxS).
AV Selected for U.S. Army Next-Generation C-UAS Missile Program, Awarded $95.9M Contract to Deliver FE-1 for U.S. Army's Long-Range Kinetic Interceptor (LRKI) Program
AeroVironment, Inc. (“AV”) (
NASDAQ: AVAV), a leading provider of Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) and advanced air and missile defense technologies, has been selected to deliver the U.S. Army’s Next-Generation C-UAS Missile (NGCM). Along with this selection, AV was awarded a $95.9 million contract for the U.S. Army's Long-Range Kinetic Interceptor (LRKI) program through the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center (CCDC AvMC) Aviation & Missile Technology Consortium® (AMTC). As part of the LRKI program, AV will manufacture and deliver its Freedom Eagle (FE-1) kinetic C-UAS missile.
AV and Korean Air Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Advance Medium Unmanned Aircraft Systems for the Republic of Korea
AeroVironment, Inc. (“AV”) (
NASDAQ: AVAV), a global leader in all-domain unmanned systems, today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that positions Korean Air as its priority partner in the Republic of Korea.
AV Awarded U.S. Army RCCTO Contract for Kinesis, Named Lead Software & Systems Integrator for HMIF
AeroVironment, Inc. (“AV”) (
NASDAQ: AVAV) today announced a contract award from the U.S. Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO) for its tactical mission planning and command and control (C2) software for the Human-Machine Integrated Formations (HMIF) Increment 1 program.
