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Industry & Contracts
NIOA and AeroVironment Sign Switchblade Partnership as Australia Looks to Localize Loitering-Munition Support
At Land Forces 2026, NIOA became AeroVironment's local partner for Switchblade and AV's wider loitering-munition portfolio in Australia and New Zealand. The deal covers distribution, sustainment and growth, but it names no contract value and makes no firm commitment to build anything locally.
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Industry & Contracts
AeroVironment Guides to $2.1-2.2 Billion for FY2027 as Backlog Tops $1.2 Billion
AeroVironment posted 6% revenue growth in fiscal Q1 2027 and guided to $2.125-2.225 billion for the full year, days after a $464.8 million Army laser-weapon contract and a record fiscal 2026 backlog.
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Industry & Contracts
AeroVironment's Laser Weapon Lands Its First Foreign Buyer, Days After the Army's Production Deal
AeroVironment's LOCUST directed-energy counter-drone laser scored its first international sale, worth more than $50 million, barely a week after the US Army handed the company its first-ever production contract for a high-energy laser weapon.
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Industry & Contracts
First Production Laser: AeroVironment's $400M Locust Deal Moves Directed Energy From Prototype to Product Line
Bloomberg reports the Army will buy at least $400M of AeroVironment's Locust counter-drone lasers — the Pentagon's first production contract for a directed-energy system beyond the prototype phase — sending AVAV up ~8-9% and turning the E-HEL program of record from negotiation into recurring revenue.
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Industry & Contracts
Pentagon's Counter-Drone Marketplace Expands as Kaizen's $15M Platform Crosses $21M in Sales
JIATF-401's vetted C-UAS Marketplace, built by startup Kaizen under a $15M contract, has processed $21M in purchases and added the UK and Romania as allied buyers while linking to the Foreign Military Sales Fast Lane.
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Industry & Contracts
Quantum Systems Raises $1.2 Billion in Europe's Largest-Ever Defense-Tech Financing
German drone maker Quantum Systems closed a $1.2 billion Series D at an $8 billion valuation on July 2, 2026, backed by Blackstone, Airbus and Advent, days after the U.S. Army tapped its Vector AI as a Company-Level sUAS candidate.
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Industry & Contracts
AeroVironment's Q4 Blowout: A $642M Quarter, a $1.2B Backlog, and the 'Drone Supercycle' Goes Mainstream
AeroVironment crushed estimates with a record $641.6M fiscal Q4, doubled annual revenue to nearly $2B, and grew funded backlog to $1.2B — sending shares up ~19% and turning 'drone supercycle' talk into public-market fact.
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Industry & Contracts
AeroVironment: How a Glider Champion Built America's Tactical Drone Empire
From Paul MacCready's human-powered aircraft to a $990 million Switchblade contract and a $4.1 billion BlueHalo merger, AeroVironment has quietly become the backbone of U.S. tactical UAS — and is now reshaping itself into a multi-domain defense-tech mid-prime.
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Industry & Contracts
AeroVironment and Ubiqconn Target Taiwan's Controller Fragmentation Problem
AeroVironment and Taiwan's Ubiqconn Technology have signed an MOU to build a common drone-controller ecosystem for Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense, which is pursuing procurement of tens of thousands of domestically produced UAS — and needs a single interface to run all of them.
