ARLINGTON, Virginia. AeroVironment won a $288 million delivery order for its Switchblade loitering munition systems under the U.S. Army’s Directed Requirement (DR) for Lethal Unmanned Systems (LUS), the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) denied a protest against the U.S. Army’s sole-source award of a $990 million contract for Aerovironment’s Switchblade systems, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. AeroVironment (AV) won a $990 million contract from the U.S. Army to supply Switchblade loitering munitions, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. The U.S. Department of State approved a possible foreign military sale of AeroVironment's (AV) Switchblade 300 loitering munition systems to Taiwan, estimated at $60.2 million, AeroVironment announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Va. Uncrewed aerial system (UAS) manufacturer AeroVironment (AV) reports that its Switchblade 600 loitering munition system has been selected for Tranche 1 of the first iteration of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Replicator initiative, the U.S. government's drive to field thousands of autonomous systems across multiple warfighting domains.

ARLINGTON, Va. AeroVironment (AV) engineers unveiled the company’s Autonomy Retrofit Kit (ARK) and AVACORE software to increase autonomous system effectiveness and reduce operator workload.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. The U.S. Marine Corps chose AeroVironment's Switchblade 300 Block 20 for the initial phase of the Organic Precision Fires-Light (OPF-L) program, the company announced in a statement.