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AeroVironment (NASDAQ: AVAV) was awarded a five-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract worth $874.26 million by the U.S. Army Contracting Command to support future foreign military sales (FMS).
The IDIQ covers Groups 1–3 unmanned aerial systems and counter-UAS systems, including JUMP 20, P550, Puma, Raven, and Titan C-UAS, plus training, initial spares, and logistics support. Key platform specs cited: JUMP 20 > 13 hours endurance and 185 km range; P550 up to 5 hours all-battery operation; Titan has > 1,000 units deployed globally.
AV (NASDAQ:AVAV) was awarded a 3-year Other Transaction Agreement on Dec 8, 2025 with an initial base value of $13.2M and additional options that raise the total potential value to $42M to supply the P550™ uncrewed aircraft system for the U.S. Army’s Long Range Reconnaissance (LRR) program.
The all-battery-electric P550 offers long-range ISR and lethal-effect capabilities, VTOL and toolless quick-connect airframe, advanced AI/autonomy, and a Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) for rapid payload and software updates. AV will deliver system updates, support, and documentation to Army PEO Aviation, PM UAS, PdM SUAS for testing, evaluation, and integration.
AeroVironment (NASDAQ: AVAV) announced on December 5, 2025 that Milancy Harris has joined as Vice President and Chief Security Officer. Harris will lead AV’s integrated, enterprise-wide security strategy to protect people, programs, technologies, and customers across a growing mission portfolio.
Harris previously served as Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security and held senior roles at the Defense Intelligence Agency, National Counterterrorism Center, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, National Security Council, and in the private sector at Meta where she helped operationalize the Oversight Board.
The company said Harris will focus on strengthening trust, resilience, and security practices to support AV’s work with warfighters and government partners.
AeroVironment (NASDAQ: AVAV) announced on December 4, 2025 that its Visual Navigation System (VNS) kit has been integrated with the Puma LE small unmanned aircraft system, delivering GNSS‑denied navigation capability.
The VNS kit uses downward‑facing cameras, inertial sensors and onboard computing to perform Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO), fuse visual and motion data in real time, and automatically transition between GNSS‑enabled and GNSS‑denied modes with zero pilot input. The kit is available as an add‑on for new Puma 3 AE or Puma LE orders and as a retrofit for existing Puma 2 AE, Puma 3 AE, and Puma LE systems.
Standard Puma LE specs noted: 23.8 pounds weight, 6.5 hours endurance, and 60‑kilometer range; the release also references prior Puma LE upgrades including a laser target designator and Universal Gimbal Kit.
Hoverfly Technologies (NASDAQ:AVAV) announced on December 3, 2025 that its tethered unmanned aerial systems (TeUAS) have been whitelisted and are natively supported and immediately deployable on AeroVironment's AV_Halo COMMAND software platform.
The integration enables operators to control Hoverfly TeUAS through the same common UI used for over 20 other uncrewed systems, leverages AV_Halo's KINESIS control architecture, and promises enhanced AI-driven autonomy, secure open-architecture connectivity, faster ISR-to-kinetic mission execution, and interoperability with CUAS capabilities.
AeroVironment (NASDAQ: AVAV) announced expansion of its AV_Halo unified mission software platform on Dec 2, 2025 with two additions: AV_Halo CORTEX (AI-driven intelligence fusion, OSINT integration, autonomous analysis, GeoPoint geolocation, GPT-powered insight agents) and AV_Halo MENTOR (immersive VR/AR Virtual Systems Trainer for weapons training and mission rehearsal supporting Stinger, Javelin, Igla, team scenarios, portable or fixed installs).
Both products integrate into AV_Halo’s open-standards ecosystem to accelerate situational awareness, simulation-based readiness, and cross-domain coordination across air, land, sea, space, and cyber.
AeroVironment (NASDAQ: AVAV) will report its second quarter fiscal 2026 results for the period ended November 1, 2025 after market close on December 9, 2025.
Management will host a conference call and live audio webcast the same day at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time led by Wahid Nawabi (chairman, president, CEO), Kevin P. McDonnell (EVP, CFO), and Denise Pacioni (director, investor relations). Investors must register to access the call and can listen via the Investor Relations website. An audio replay and transcript will be archived on the Investor Relations site shortly after the event.
AeroVironment (NASDAQ: AVAV) will present at the Goldman Sachs Industrials and Materials Conference in New York on December 3, 2025. Company chairman, president and CEO Wahid Nawabi and executive vice president and CFO Kevin McDonnell will take part in a fireside chat at 8:00 a.m. ET (9:00 a.m. CT | 11:00 a.m. PT). The session will be available live by webcast at the listed time and archived on the company's website at the provided webcast link.
AeroVironment (NASDAQ: AVAV) announced on October 31, 2025 a collaboration with OpenJAUS to integrate the JAUS standard into AV_Halo Command, AV’s cross-architecture software for controlling uncrewed systems (UxS).
The integration pairs AV_Halo Command's modular APIs with the OpenJAUS SDK to extend compatibility to JAUS-compliant assets, speed OEM deployment, and support AV’s Tomahawk Grip family to provide a single "pane of glass" for viewing and controlling more than 25 UxS from over a dozen manufacturers.
Arlington Capital Partners (AVAV) closed Arlington Capital Partners VII with $6.0 billion in commitments on October 30, 2025, after reaching its hard cap in less than five months and exceeding a $4.75 billion target.
ACP VII is a 57% increase versus Fund VI (2023) and more than 250% larger than Fund V (2019). Re-up demand from Fund VI exceeded 115%. The firm said it has invested over $1 billion across 35 investments since early 2024 and operates about 10 million square feet of U.S. manufacturing space.
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