LOS ANGELES, Sept. 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nominal, the test and operations data platform for engineering teams building complex hardware, today announced a strategic collaboration with AeroVironment (NASDAQ: AVAV), a global leader in intelligent, multi-domain robotic systems.
AeroVironment has spent more than five decades building autonomous systems that have to work the first time, every time, in the field. As the company expands production of its uncrewed aircraft, loitering munitions, and counter-UAS systems across multiple programs and facilities, its engineering and manufacturing teams have adopted Nominal to bring test data capture, cross-team review, and traceability into one system, connecting engineering test through end-of-line manufacturing checks.
"When you're scaling production of systems that can't afford to fail, the data intelligence has to keep up with the hardware," said Cameron McCord, CEO and co-founder of Nominal. "AeroVironment is a proof point for what's possible when a company moving fast on volume also moves fast on rigor. That combination — speed and resilience — is exactly the moment hardware manufacturers across every industry are facing right now, and it's the problem Nominal was built to solve."
"As we scale production across multiple programs and facilities, we need infrastructure that keeps pace without slowing our engineers down," said Scott Bowman, Chief Technology Officer, AeroVironment. "Nominal is giving our teams a shared, connected way to capture, review, and trust test and production data as volume increases and expectations are higher than ever."
While this collaboration is rooted in defense manufacturing, Nominal is built for any team facing the same shift: building more hardware, faster, without losing the rigor that keeps it safe. That means real-time capture of instrument and test data at the edge, browser-based storage and analysis, and a shared record that carries forward from early R&D through full production scale.
That combination is increasingly relevant across aerospace, automotive, robotics, energy, and any other industry now facing their own version of the same question AeroVironment is answering: what does it take to industrialize quickly without sacrificing quality or traceability?
About Nominal
Nominal is the AI-ready engineering data platform that helps aerospace, energy, defense, automotive, and other industrial hardware teams ship breakthrough products faster. Thousands of engineers use Nominal’s platform to confidently operate complex physical systems, while accelerating and automating verification loops from prototype to fleet sustainment. For more information, visit nominal.io.
About AeroVironment
AeroVironment (“AV”) (NASDAQ: AVAV) is a defense technology leader delivering integrated capabilities across air, land, sea, space, and cyber. The Company develops and deploys autonomous systems, loitering munitions, counter-UAS technologies, space-based platforms, directed energy systems, and cyber and electronic warfare capabilities—built to meet the mission needs of today’s warfighter and tomorrow’s conflicts. At the core of these technologies lies AV_Halo™, a modular, mission-ready suite of AI-powered software tools that empowers warfighters and enables full-battlefield dominance: detect, decide, deliver. With a national manufacturing footprint and a deep innovation pipeline, AV delivers proven systems and future-defining capabilities at speed, scale, and operational relevance. For more information, visit www.avinc.com.
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