Federal contractor · SIMI VALLEY, CA

AEROVIRONMENT, INC

AEROVIRONMENT, INC received $510.9M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 42 awards (+3% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $1.7B. Its largest customer was Department of the Army ($403.8M).

Obligations · FY2026
$510.9M
New awards
42
Sole-source
68%
Single offer
9.3%
UEI
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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

9 registered entities of the same company or corporate group, $595.2M in FY2026 together.

  1. AEROVIRONMENT, INCSIMI VALLEY, CA · Family page
    $510.9M
  2. BLUEHALO LLCHUNTSVILLE, AL
    $73.1M
  3. BLUEHALO, LLCDAYTON, OH
    $15.5M
  4. AEROVIRONMENT INCLAWRENCE, KS
    $0
  5. AEROVIRONMENT INCHUNTSVILLE, AL
    $0
  6. AEROVIRONMENT, INC.SIMI VALLEY, CA
    $0
  7. BLUEHALO, LLCCHANTILLY, VA
    $0
  8. UES SERVICES INCDAYTON, OH
    $0
  9. AEROVIRONMENT, INC.ARLINGTON, VA
    -$4.3M

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-10-05

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 4.1MFY2017
  2. 649.9KFY2018
  3. 7.7MFY2019
  4. 13.3MFY2020
  5. 16.2MFY2021
  6. 78.7MFY2022
  7. 329.6MFY2023
  8. 214.7MFY2024
  9. 496.2MFY2025
  10. 510.9MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Army$403.8M79%
    30 awards
  2. Department of the Air Force$85.1M17%
    4 awards
  3. Department of the Navy$21.3M4.2%
    5 awards
  4. Federal Railroad Administration$575.3K0.1%
    1 awards
  5. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$111K0.0%
    1 awards
  6. Missile Defense Agency$5000.0%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$462.5M91%
  2. Professional services$26.5M5.2%
  3. Research & development$22M4.3%

Where the work was performed

  1. Ventura County, CA$601.8M100%
  2. Greene County, OH$26.5M5.2%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition77%
    US 39% · $393.6M
  • Sole-source awards68%
    US 30% · $345.9M
  • Single-offer competitions9.3%
    US 8.7% · $47.7M
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Department of the Army$268.3M
    Department of Defense · 15 awards
  2. Department of the Air Force$75.7M
    Department of Defense · 2 awards
  3. Department of the Navy$1.3M
    Department of Defense · 1 awards
  4. Federal Railroad Administration$575.3K
    Department of Transportation · 1 awards
  5. National Aeronautics and Space Administration$111K
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. LOW ALTITUDE STALKING AND STRIKE ORDNANCE SCD IS A$256.8M
    Department of the Army· Ventura County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Dec 29, 2025 – Jun 5, 2026· W91CRB26FA055
  2. LOITERED MUNITIONS, SWITCHBLADE 300 AND 600 ALL UP ROUNDS$218M
    Department of the Army· Ventura County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Jan 17, 2025 – Apr 22, 2026· W91CRB25F0094
  3. DELIVERY ORDER TO PURCHASE ALL UP ROUNDS, FIRE CONTROL SYSTEMS AND SMART BATTERY CHARGERS$128M
    Department of the Army· Ventura County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Aug 30, 2024 – Apr 15, 2026· W91CRB24F0412
  4. AWARD IN SUPPORT OF TUAS BATTALION RECONNAISSANCE UAV REQUIREMENT.$117.3M
    Department of the Army· Madison County, AL· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Jun 3, 2026 – Jun 9, 2026· W58RGZ26F0334
  5. DELIVERY ORDER TO PURCHASE 330 SWITCHBLADE 600 ALL-UP ROUNDS WITH SELECTIVE AVAILABILITY ANTI-SPOOFING MODULE, COLOR-TAN.$55.5M
    Department of the Army· Ventura County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Dec 16, 2024 – Apr 15, 2026· W91CRB25F0067
  6. SUAS HURRICANE DRONES$49.3M
    Department of the Air Force· Ventura County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Oct 3, 2025 – Apr 16, 2026· FA862926FB002
  7. LOW ALTITUDE STALKING AND STRIKE ORDNANCE (LASSO). ALL DELIVERABLE AND WORK SHALL BE PERFORMED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE BASE CONTRACT STATEMENT OF WORK.$39.2M
    Department of the Army· Ventura County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Sep 18, 2025 – Jun 5, 2026· W91CRB25FA299
  8. LOW ALTITUDE STALKING AND STRIKE ORDNANCE (LASSO) SURVEILLANCE CRITICALITY DESIGNATOR IS A$28.1M
    Department of the Army· Ventura County, CA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Apr 29, 2026 – Apr 29, 2026· W91CRB26FA177

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-contracts: $2.1M (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. HII MISSION TECHNOLOGIES CORP$2.1M100%
    MC LEAN, VA · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $46.5K paid out · $0 received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $3.6M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $181.7K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $4.9M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $5M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $2.1M received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

196 companies · $121.8M reported

  1. L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES INTEGRATED SYSTEMS L.P.$15.1M
    GREENVILLE, TX · 4 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  2. HAMMER DEFENSE TECHNOLOGIES LLC$5.5M
    GRANT VALKARIA, FL · 4 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  3. INTELLISENSE SYSTEMS INC$5M
    TORRANCE, CA · 5 subawards · Scientific research and development services

Primes that pay it

42 companies · $416.6M reported

  1. TORCH TECHNOLOGIES INC$156.2M
    HUNTSVILLE, AL · 160 subawards · Scientific research and development services
  2. ATLANTIC DIVING SUPPLY, INC.$104.1M
    VIRGINIA BEACH, VA · 87 subawards · Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers
  3. SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION$49.1M
    RESTON, VA · 11 subawards · Scientific research and development services

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 33 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. DEFENSE SYSTEMS AND SOLUTIONS$1.6B−48% in FY2026
    HUNTSVILLE, AL · 71% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  2. RAYTHEON/LOCKHEED MARTIN JAVELIN JV$2.2B−97% in FY2026
    TUCSON, AZ · 71% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  3. GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.$5.7B+7.1% in FY2026
    POWAY, CA · 83% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Aerospace product and parts manufacturingAir Force · Aerospace product and parts manufacturingAir Force · Scientific research and development services+2 more

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Across the company family of AEROVIRONMENT, INC (9 recipients).

Matched organizations

  • AEROVIRONMENT, INC.AI match · 100%
  • BlueHalo CorporationAI match · 96%
Lobbying · 2025
$680K
22 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$2.1M
$2.1M in its own reports
PAC giving · 2026
$117.3K
1 PAC

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$440K
    16 reports
  2. 2024$650K
    23 reports
  3. 2025$680K
    22 reports
  4. 2026$320K
    10 reports

Top issues

  1. Defense63 reports
  2. Budget and appropriations6 reports
  3. Aerospace4 reports
  4. Science and technology1 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES69 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE69 reports
  3. Defense - Dept of (DOD)18 reports
  4. Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)4 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

  1. DLA Piper LLP (US)$1.5M
    15 reports
  2. Venture Government Strategies, LLC (fka Hobart Hallaway & Quayle Ventures, LLC)$340K
    10 reports
  3. Brian Glackin & Associates LLC$310K
    10 reports
  4. THE LIVINGSTON GROUP, L.L.C.$170K
    5 reports
  5. Ervin Graves Strategy Group, LLC$130K
    6 reports
  6. The Dionne Company$90K
    6 reports
  7. Atlantic Strategies Group LLC$40K
    5 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

PAC giving to candidates by party, 2026 cycle

  1. Republican$79.3K68%
  2. Democratic$38K32%

PACs sponsored

  • AEROVIRONMENT, INC PAC$228.3K raised this cycle

PACs these organizations sponsor (connected organizations in FEC records). A PAC gives employees' and members' voluntary contributions, not the company's own money.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.