AeroVironment Inc, a NASDAQ-listed technology solutions provider that designs, develops, produces, supports, and operates an advanced portfolio of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and electric transportation solutions, and Bengaluru-based Dynamatic Technologies today inaugurated a pilot production facility for the development of the next generation unmanned aircraft system Cheel.
The facility was inaugurated by Lt Gen (Retd.) Jeff Kohler, Vice-President, International Business Development, Boeing Defense Space & Security, and Jim Gribbon, Vice-President Asia, Lockheed Martin International, who were leading a USIBC delegation of industry leaders on a visit to Dynamatic’s aeronautic manufacturing facilities here.
The inauguration of the pilot production facility is part of a wider strategic plan for growth and internationalisation outlined by Dynamatic and AeroVironment. The Indian and US governments have selected a next-generation unmanned aircraft system (UAS) based on AeroVironment’s market-leading family of small UAS as a collaborative project under the India-United States Defense Technology and Trade Initiative (DTTI).