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AeroVironment (AVAV) is in the Manufacturing Industry

Revenue
Apr 30 2008
$215.7M
Profit
Apr 30 2008
$21.3M
Market Cap
Sep 04 2008
$652.7M

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  • AeroVironment Receives $4.6 Million in DARPA Funding to Develop Stealthy, Persistent, Perch and Stare UAS Based on Wasp

    MONROVIA, Calif. -- AeroVironment, Inc. AV (NASDAQ: AVAV) announces the receipt of $4.6 million in funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA to develop a small Unmanned Aircraft System UAS capable of performing "hover/perch and stare" missions. The Stealthy, Persistent, Perch and Stare (SP2S) UAS is based on...

    Articles 2008-08-20

  • ECOtality's eTec Appoints New Director of Business Development

    Thomas Quinn, former AeroVironment National Sales Manager, appointed Director of Business Development for eTec's growing Energy and Transportation Business Sectors SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation eTec, a wholly owned subsidiary of ECOtality, Inc. (OTCBB: ETLY), a leader in clean electric transportation and storage technologies, today announced...

    Articles 2008-08-04

  • AVIATION WEEK Announces Top-Performing Companies of 2008

    Lockheed Martin, Rockwell Collins, Ceradyne, and AeroVironment Receive Top Ranking for Operational Performance NEW YORK, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- AVIATION WEEK has released the results of its Top-Performing Companies TPC Study, which ranks Lockheed Martin Corp., Rockwell Collins Inc., Ceradyne Inc., and AeroVironment Inc....

    Articles 2008-07-08

  • AeroVironment Awarded U.S. Special Operations Command All Environment Capable Variant Small UAS Contract

    MONROVIA, Calif. -- AeroVironment, Inc. AV (NASDAQ: AVAV) today announced the U.S. Special Operations Command USSOCOM has selected Puma AE as its All Environment Capable Variant AECV solution to the Small Unmanned Aircraft System UAS requirement. The one-year Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity IDIQ contract, with four one-year...

    Articles 2008-07-02

  • AeroVironment, Inc. Announces Fiscal 2008 Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year End Financial Results

    MONROVIA, Calif. -- AeroVironment, Inc. AV (NASDAQ: AVAV) today reported financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended April 30, 2008. "We completed our second fiscal year-end as a public company and once again achieved our financial objectives, generating revenue growth of 24%...

    Articles 2008-06-24

  • Wall Street Media Presents 4 Video Highlights From the Stephens Inc. Spring Investment Conference

    NEW YORK -- Wall Street Media is presenting exclusive highlight videos from the presentations of Greenfield Online Inc., (Nasdaq: SRVY), AeroVironment, Inc., (Nasdaq: AVAV), Tyson Foods Inc., (NYSE: TSN), and Digital River Inc., (Nasdaq: DRIV), from the Stephens Inc. Spring Investment Conference held on June 4-5, 2008...

    Articles 2008-06-04

  • AeroVironment, Inc. to Present at Stephens Inc. Annual Spring Investment Conference

    MONROVIA, Calif. -- AeroVironment, Inc. AV (NASDAQ: AVAV) today announced that Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tim Conver, will present at the Stephens Inc. Annual Spring Investment Conference to be held at the New York Palace Hotel in New York City at 2:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 4, 2008....

    Articles 2008-06-03

  • Netherlands Ministry of Defence Selects AeroVironment's Raven Small UAS

    MONROVIA, Calif. -- AeroVironment, Inc. AV (NASDAQ: AVAV) today announced that The Netherlands Ministry of Defence, acting through its Defence Materiel Organization DMO, has awarded AV a contract for RQ-11B Raven small unmanned aircraft systems. The order includes new aircraft systems as well as training, logistics support, and airworthiness certification....

    Articles 2008-05-30

  • AeroVironment, Inc. to Present at FBR Spring Investor Conference

    MONROVIA, Calif. -- AeroVironment, Inc. AV (NASDAQ: AVAV) today announced that director of investor relations, Steven A. Gitlin, will present at the FBR Capital Markets Annual Spring Investor Conference to be held at Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City, New York, at 9:45 a.m. EDT on Thursday, May 29,...

    Articles 2008-05-28

  • DARPA Awards AeroVironment Phase II Contract for Nano Air Vehicle Development

    MONROVIA, Calif. -- AeroVironment, Inc. AV (NASDAQ: AVAV) today announced it has been awarded a Phase II contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA to design and build a flying prototype for the Nano Air Vehicle NAV program. AV completed a preliminary design review at the...

    Articles 2008-05-27

  • CAREER PROGRESSIONS

    Government Michael E. Leiter has been nominated to be director of the National Counterterrorism Center in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Washington, D.C. Cynthia Dion-Schwarz has been appointed to director of information technology, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics,...

    Articles 2008-05-01

  • AeroVironment Awarded Patents for Architectural Wind® Building-Integrated Energy Generation System

    MONROVIA, Calif. -- AeroVironment, Inc. AV (NASDAQ: AVAV), a leader in unmanned aircraft systems and efficient electric energy systems, has been awarded three utility patents and six design patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office USPTO along with 12 European design patents relating to new approaches to renewable...

    Articles 2008-04-04

  • Millennium Cell's Hydrogen on Demand® Technology Provides Energy for Record Breaking UAV Flight

    Nine Hour Flight By Aerovironment's PUMA Is Three Times Longer Than With Battery EATONTOWN, N.J. -- Millennium Cell Inc. (NASDAQ: MCEL), a leading developer of hydrogen battery technology, today confirmed that its Hydrogen on Demand([R]) technology provided the energy storage for a record-breaking nine hour flight of AeroVironment's...

    Articles 2008-03-11

  • Michael Bissonette Appointed Vice President and General Manager of AeroVironment's Energy Technology Center

    MONROVIA, Calif. -- AeroVironment, Inc. AV (NASDAQ: AVAV), a leader in unmanned aircraft systems and efficient electric energy systems, today announced that Michael Bissonette, formerly assistant general manager of AV's Energy Technology Center ETC, has been appointed vice president and general manager of the ETC. Bissonette assumes the role previously...

    Articles 2008-03-11

  • AeroVironment Puma Small UAS Achieves Record Flight of Over Nine Hours Using Fuel Cell Battery Hybrid System

    MONROVIA, Calif. -- AeroVironment AV (NASDAQ:AVAV), a leader in unmanned aircraft systems UAS and efficient electric energy systems, today announced that it has flown its Puma small unmanned aircraft for over nine hours, powered by an onboard fuel cell battery hybrid energy storage system. This broke the previous announced Puma...

    Articles 2008-03-06

  • AeroVironment, Inc. to Present at Raymond James' 29th Annual Institutional Investors Conference

    MONROVIA, Calif. -- AeroVironment, Inc. AV (NASDAQ: AVAV), a leader in unmanned aircraft systems UAS and efficient electric energy systems, today announced that Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Tim Conver will present at the Raymond James 29th Annual Institutional Investors Conference to be held at The Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress...

    Articles 2008-03-05

  • AeroVironment, Inc. Announces Fiscal 2008 Third Quarter Results

    MONROVIA, Calif. -- AeroVironment, Inc. AV (NASDAQ: AVAV), a leader in unmanned aircraft systems and efficient electric energy systems, today reported financial results for its fiscal third quarter ended January 26, 2008. "Our unmanned aircraft systems UAS segment continues to generate growth as a result of ongoing demand...

    Articles 2008-03-03

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  • Incorporated: 1971
  • CEO: Mr. Timothy E. Conver
  • Employees: 543

AeroVironment designs, develops, produces and supports a portfolio of small unmanned aircraft systems ("UAS") that Co. supplies primarily to organizations within the U.S. Department of Defense ("DoD") and fast charge systems for electric industrial vehicle batteries that Co. supplies to commercial customers. Co. is organized into 3 segments based on its business operations, UAS, PosiCharge Systems, and Energy Technology Center, which focused primarily on the development of electric energy technologies for internal and external customers, and also developed, produced and supported a line of electronic test equipment used for research and development activities.

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AeroVironment Company Info

Board of Directors

Mr. Timothy E. Conver

Chairman

Mr. Joseph F. Alibrandi

Mr. Arnold L. Fishman

Mr. Kenneth R. Baker

Dr. Murray Gell-Mann Ph.D.

Mr. Charles R. Holland

Contact Information

181 W. Huntington Drive

Suite 202

Monrovia, CA

http://www.avinc.com

626 357-9983

NAICS Code

Aircraft Manufacturing: 336411
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