Company Information
 
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Company Information

 

Overview

AAI Logistics & Technical Services, AAI Test & Training and AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems are operating units of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company. Originally founded in 1950 as AAI Corporation, Textron Systems announced the formation of three separate AAI organizations in 2011. This organizational change will continue to power efficiencies and enable each business to better support customers’ current and future needs.

With decades of experience, customers know and trust a variety of AAI products and services, including:

AAI Logistics & Technical Services (selected examples):

  • Contractor logistics support, including performance based logistics
  • Depot support services
  • Field service support
  • Unmanned aircraft system operational services
  • Training and simulation services
  • Spare parts and repairs

AAI Test & Training (selected examples):

  • Advanced Boresight Equipment, or ABE®
  • Joint Service Electronic Combat Systems Tester, or JSECST
  • PDCue® Gunshot Detection System
  • TDCue® Automatic Target Scoring System
  • Advanced Architecture Phase Amplitude and Time Simulator, or A2PATS
  • Automated test equipment and services
  • Electronic warfare test and training equipment and services

AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems (selected examples):

  • Shadow® Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System
  • Aerosonde® Small Unmanned Aircraft System
  • Universal Ground Control Station, or UGCS
  • One System® Remote Video Terminal, or OSRVT
  • Expeditionary Ground Control Station, or EGCS
  • Tactical Remote Exploitation, or T-REX®, Terminal
  • Tactical Sensor Intelligence Sharing, or Tac-SIS, System
  • Forward Airborne Secure Transmission and Communication, FASTCOM

Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Md., AAI Logistics & Technical Services, AAI Test & Training and AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems occupy more than 621,000 square feet of facilities and manufacturing space at this location. In addition, the businesses have several additional domestic locations including Charleston, S.C., Huntsville, Ala., Austin, Texas and Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. Aerosonde Pty Ltd, based in Australia, is a small unmanned aircraft systems designer and strategic business of AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems, while U.K.-based electronic warfare test and training systems company ESL Defence Limited is a strategic business of AAI Test & Training.

Together, AAI Logistics & Technical Services, AAI Test & Training and AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems are 2,600 employees strong and globally reaching, providing innovative products and services that U.S. and allied armed forces rely upon every day.