AV’s Titan™ Selected by JIATF-401 for $80.5 m Award

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Award Advances U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command's Layered Base Defense While Cementing Titan as a Global Benchmark in Counter-UAS ARLINGTON, Va., July 06, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AeroVironment, Inc. ("AV") (NASDAQ: AVAV), a global leader in intelligent, multi-domain robotic systems, today announced that Joint Interagency Task Force 401 (JIATF-401) has selected its Titan™ MS (Multi-Sensor) system for a $80.5 million contract award in support of Domestic Shield. The award is being executed against a $500 million Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) sole-source contract in support of Joint Interagency Task Force 401's (JIATF-401) Domestic Shield Program that was recently announced by AV. "JIATF-401 is continuously working to bolster the Services' abilities to protect warfighters and individual installations," said Col. Jason Idleman, chief for multi-domain operations division at JIATF-401. "This investment provides operators with the tools to detect, track, and defend against illicit drones. Providing top-tier technology to our warfighters enables them to effectively respond to these rapidly evolving threats." Domestic Shield is the Department of War's initiative to strengthen C-UAS protection for defense critical infrastructure and other high-priority homeland defense. JIATF 401 spearheads the initiative by prioritizing sites based on threat, criticality, vulnerability, and mission. The task force works with the Services and interagency partners to validate requirements, align resources, and accelerate the delivery of layered C-UAS capabilities to the locations where they are needed most. Under this purchase order, AV will deliver Titan systems that will enhance the Air Force's layered air defense capabilities against small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) threats. This award follows a previous JIATF-401 purchase of a Titan C-UAS system. "Counter-UAS is no longer a future requirement, it is the defining operational imperative of modern defense," said Wahid Nawabi, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at AV. "This milestone award and the unprecedented demand we are seeing for Titan mark a historic turning point, as customers move decisively toward proven, fielded solutions that can be rapidly deployed at scale to protect civilians, servicemembers and critical assets against increasingly sophisticated drone threats." Titan-MS is an AI-...

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