Contract: AeroVironment, $17M

AeroVironment Inc., Simi Valley, Calif., was awarded a $17,060,507.76 contract to procure a digital data link upgrade for the Raven RQ-11B Unmanned Aircraft System and FY 09 engineering services and accounting for contract services. Work will be performed at Simi Valley, Ca. with an estimated completion date of Oct 30, 2010. U.S. Army Contracting Command, Aviation and Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity. (Source: DoD, 01/22/09) AeroVironment has an operation at Navarre, Fla.