AeroVironment is an American defense contractor that designs and manufactures unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and tactical missile systems. While primarily focused on defense applications, AeroVironment has contributed to space-related projects, such as developing the Ingenuity helicopter which successfully landed on Mars in April 2021. They also develop high-altitude UAVs for communication relay platforms. NASA is one of their major partners in space exploration.
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SkyFall is managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and co-designed and co-manufactured by AeroVironment.
AeroVironment developed and produced the rotors used in the JPL tests.
AeroVironment was already involved in the Ingenuity program.
Eric Truitt helped BlueHalo exit to AeroVironment in a $4.5 billion transaction.
Eric Truitt assisted with BlueHalo’s sale to AeroVironment while serving as a vice president at BlueHalo.
AeroVironment, Inc. has received a firm-fixed-price contract option with the U.S. Space Force Space Rapid Capabilities Office for the delivery of two BADGER phased array antenna systems.
AeroVironment will deliver the first BADGER unit to the U.S. Space Force in the coming months.
AeroVironment is scaling BADGER production to match the operational tempo demanded by the Space Force.
AeroVironment has expanded manufacturing agreements with several key suppliers to meet increasing demand for BADGER systems.
AeroVironment won a $10,000,000 NASA contract in 2023 for design and development of the Mars Sample Recovery Helicopter flight systems.
On 2024-11-19, AeroVironment plans to acquire BlueHalo in a deal valued at approximately $4,100,000,000.
AeroVironment has invested in production capability and capacity to produce large volumes of Switchblade 600 at a reliability level the U.S. Department of Defense expects.
AeroVironment has introduced its Autonomy Retrofit Kit (ARK) and AVACORE software to advance autonomy and machine learning capabilities.
ARK comes preinstalled with SPOTR-Edge, AeroVironment's computer vision software for onboard detection, classification, localization, and tracking of objects.
ARK and AVACORE bring AeroVironment's accelerated autonomy to fielded assets such as Puma™ 3 AE and Puma™ LE.
The introduction of ARK and AVACORE builds upon AeroVironment's proven family of autonomous systems.
AVACORE is AeroVironment's autonomy software that provides an open framework for unmanned systems.
Ingenuity Mars helicopter project was completed on schedule by teams at JPL and AeroVironment.
AeroVironment ran the team responsible for contributions to Ingenuity and future Mars helicopters.
AeroVironment deploys the JUMP 20 to U.S. and allied militaries around the world.