AeroVironment, Inc. Receives U.S. Army Lethal Miniature Aerial Missile Systems Contract Valued at Up to $41 Million for Switchblade 300 Tactical Missile Systems Contractor Logistics Support
April 22, 2021 at 09:10 am EDT
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AeroVironment, Inc. announced it received a $13,010,560 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract order on March 24, 2021 from the U.S. Army for Switchblade® 300 tactical missile systems contractor logistics support. The contract has a total potential value of $40,852,467, for which funding was authorized through a DoD-approved Joint Urgent Operational Need Statement. Logistics support services are scheduled to be delivered through March 2024. AeroVironment’s combat proven Switchblade 300 is back-packable and rapidly deployable from ground platforms, including a multipack launcher, providing warfighters with rapid-response force protection and precision strike capabilities up to 10 kilometers (6 miles) from its launch location. Its high precision, combined with specialized effects and patented “wave-off” feature, results in Switchblade’s ability to minimize or even eliminate collateral damage. AeroVironment’s tactical missile systems provide users with the ability to identify threats and deliver a precision lethal payload with minimal collateral damage. Switchblade® 300 and Switchblade® 600 loitering missile systems enable the warfighter to easily launch, fly, track and engage beyond line-of-sight targets and light armored vehicles across land, maritime and air-launched scenarios. The Blackwing™ loitering reconnaissance system is a variant of Switchblade designed to provide rapid-response intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities and can be deployed from a submarine using an underwater-to-air delivery canister, shipboard or mobile ground vehicle via tube-launch or Multipack Launcher (MPL). AeroVironment’s tactical missile systems deliver the actionable intelligence and precision firepower needed to achieve mission success across multiple domains.
AeroVironment, Inc. designs, develops, produces, delivers and supports a portfolio of intelligent, multi-domain robotic systems and related services for government agencies and businesses. It supplies unmanned systems (UMS), loitering munitions systems (LMS) and related services primarily to organizations within the United States Government and to international allied governments. Its segments include Unmanned Systems (UMS), Loitering Munition Systems (LMS) and MacCready Works (MW). The UMS segment focuses primarily on small, unmanned aircraft system (UAS) products, medium UAS products, and unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) products. The LMS segment focuses primarily on tube-launched aircraft that deploy with the push of a button and fly at higher speeds than small UAS products. It also includes customer-funded research and development programs. The MW segment focuses on research and development in the areas of robotics, sensors, software analytics, data intelligence and connectivity.
AeroVironment, Inc. Receives U.S. Army Lethal Miniature Aerial Missile Systems Contract Valued at Up to $41 Million for Switchblade 300 Tactical Missile Systems Contractor Logistics Support