Company profile
AeroVironment
AeroVironment, branded AV, develops defence technologies across autonomous air and ground systems, loitering munitions, counter-UAS, directed energy, space...
Facts
- Segment
- DEFENSE
- Country
- US
- Headquarters
- Arlington, Virginia
- Founded
- 1971
- Ticker
- AVAV
- Website
- https://www.avinc.com/
About AeroVironment
AeroVironment, branded AV, develops defence systems across autonomous aircraft and ground vehicles, loitering munitions, counter-UAS, directed energy, electronic warfare, space and mission software. Its current portfolio includes Puma and JUMP ISR aircraft, Switchblade precision-strike systems, P550 and VAPOR platforms, Telerob ground robots and the AV_Halo software family.
The BlueHalo acquisition broadened the company beyond its historic small-UAS base into space, cyber, directed energy and counter-UAS capabilities. AV reported fiscal 2026 revenue of about $2.0 billion and a funded backlog of $1.2 billion. Current production evidence includes a July 2026 U.S. Army order for 82 P550 aircraft and major awards for Puma and Titan systems. Programme maturity and delivery scale vary across the unusually wide catalogue.
Market context
DEPLOYMENT
Summary
Type: Defense UAV company
Core: Switchblade
Function: Gather intelligence
Audience: Armed forces
Products
- AV_Halo COMMAND — multi-domain command-and-control software
- Halo_Shield — counter_uas_system
- JUMP 20-X — uav
- LOCUST X3 — platform
- P550 — uav
- Puma 3 AE — uav
- RedDragon — uav
- Titan MS — counter_uas_system
- VAPOR 55 MX — uav
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- AeroVironment and Applied Intuition validate Mayhem 10 swarm autonomy — 2026-07-29
- Teledyne FLIR receives Argus XL order for AV Titan MS deployments — 2026-07-29
- AeroVironment receives 82-aircraft P550 full-rate production order — 2026-07-20
- AeroVironment wins $30.9M NSPA purchase order for Germany LARUS Puma systems — 2026-07-07
- U.S. Army awards AeroVironment $500M counter-UAS contract — 2026-07-01
- AeroVironment reports FY26 revenue growth and $2.7B bookings — 2026-06-29
- AV introduces TOM 50 RE backpackable UGV for reconnaissance and EOD — 2026-06-14
- AeroVironment plans $15 million Dayton-area advanced production expansion — 2026-06-02