AeroVironment, Inc. ("AV") (NASDAQ:AVAV), a global defense technology leader, today announced it was awarded a $14.6 million production contract by the U.S. Army for the VAPOR® Compact Long Endurance (CLE) unmanned aircraft system (UAS), its all-electric vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) platform, under the Company-Level Directed Requirement (CoLvl DR) Small Uncrewed Aircraft System (SUAS), Tranche 2.

The award supports the Army's Medium Range Reconnaissance (MRR) initiative, one of the Army's ongoing unmanned systems procurements.