Whois & Analysis for avinc.com

AeroVironment, Inc. is an American technology company in Monrovia, California, and Simi Valley, California, that is primarily involved in energy systems, electric vehicle systems, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

Paul B.

MacCready, Jr., a designer of human-powered aircraft, founded the company in 1971.

The company is probably most well known for developing a series of lightweight human-powered and then solar-powered vehicles.

AeroVironment is the Pentagon's top supplier of small drones — including the Raven, Wasp and Puma models.

They have signed a strategic partnership with Lockheed Martin Corp to develop their 'Global Observer' to provide "persistent airborne observation".

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard.

UAVs are a component of an ; which include a UAV, a ground-based controller, and a system of communications between the two.

The flight of UAVs may operate with various degrees of autonomy: either under remote control by a human operator, or fully or intermittently autonomously, by onboard computers.

More emerged during World War II – used both to train antiaircraft gunners and to fly attack missions.

Nazi Germany produced and used various UAV aircraft during the war.

Jet engines entered service after World War II in vehicles such as the Australian GAF Jindivik, and Teledyne Ryan Firebee I of 1951, while companies like Beechcraft offered their Model 1001 for the U.S. Navy in 1955.

Nevertheless, they were little more than remote-controlled airplanes until the Vietnam War.

In military operations, reconnaissance is the exploration outside an area occupied by friendly forces to gain information about natural features and enemy presence.

Surveillance (or) is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other changing information, usually of people for the purpose of influencing, managing, directing, or protecting them.

This can include observation from a distance by means of electronic equipment (such as closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras), or interception of electronically transmitted information (such as Internet traffic or phone calls); and it can include simple, no- or relatively low-technology methods such as human intelligence agents and postal interception.

The word comes from a French phrase for "watching over" (sur means "from above" and veiller means "to watch"), and is in contrast to more recent developments such as sousveillance.

The United States Armed Forces are the federal armed forces of the United States.

They consist of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard.

The President of the United States is the military's overall head, and helps form military policy with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), a federal executive department, acting as the principal organ by which military policy is carried out.