| Item 7.01. | Regulation FD Disclosure |
On
October 5, 2022, AeroVironment, Inc. (the “Company”) will host an investor and analyst event in Petaluma, California
beginning at 9:00 am Pacific Time, which will include presentations from the Company’s President, Chief Executive Officer, and
Chair of the Board, Wahid Nawabi, and the Company’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Kevin McDonnell, and other
members of the Company’s executive management team. The Company is furnishing as Exhibit 99.2 to this Current Report on Form 8-K
the presentation materials to be provided to and discussed with attendees at the investor and analyst event. The Company has posted the
presentation to be discussed by the Company's executive management team at http://investor.avinc.com/events-and-presentations.
A video of the presentation will also be available at http://investor.avinc.com/events-and-presentations following the completion
of the event.
The information in this Current Report on Form 8-K (including
the presentation materials attached as Exhibit 99.1 hereto and the video presentation) is being furnished pursuant to Item 7.01 of
Form 8-K and shall not be deemed to be “filed” for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), nor shall it be deemed to be incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, regardless of any general incorporation language in such filings. This current report on
Form 8-K will not be deemed an admission as to the materiality of any information contained herein (including the presentation materials
attached as Exhibit 99.1 hereto and the video presentation).
Safe Harbor Statement
Certain statements in this Current Report on Form 8-K (including
the presentation materials attached as Exhibit 99.1 hereto and the video presentation) may constitute "forward-looking statements"
as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include, without
limitation, any statement that may predict, forecast, indicate or imply future results, performance or achievements, and may
contain words such as “believe,” “anticipate,” “expect,” “estimate,” “intend,”
“project,” “plan,” or words or phrases with similar meaning. Forward-looking statements are based on
current expectations, forecasts and assumptions that involve risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, economic,
competitive, governmental and technological factors outside of our control, that may cause our business, strategy or actual results
to differ materially from the forward-looking statements.
Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from
the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the impact of our recent acquisitions of Arcturus
UAV, Inc., Telerob GmbH and the Intelligent Systems Group of Progeny Systems Corp. and our ability to
successfully integrate them into our operations; the risk that disruptions will occur from the transactions that will
harm our business; any disruptions or threatened disruptions to our relationships with our distributors, suppliers,
customers and employees, including shortages in components for our products; the ability to timely and
sufficiently integrate international operations into our ongoing business and compliance programs; reliance on sales to
the U.S. government and related to our development of HAPS UAS; availability of U.S. government funding for defense procurement
and R&D programs; changes in the timing and/or amount of government spending; our ability to perform under existing
contracts and obtain new contracts; risks related to our international business, including compliance with export
control laws; potential need for changes in our long-term strategy in response to future developments; the extensive regulatory
requirements governing our contracts with the U.S. government and international customers; the consequences to our
financial position, business and reputation that could result from failing to comply with such regulatory requirements;
unexpected technical and marketing difficulties inherent in major research and product development efforts; the impact
of potential security and cyber threats or the risk of unauthorized access to our, our customers’ and/or our
suppliers’ information and systems; changes in the supply and/or demand and/or prices for our products and services;
increased competition; uncertainty in the customer adoption rate of commercial use unmanned aircraft systems; failure to
remain a market innovator, to create new market opportunities or to expand into new markets; unexpected changes
in significant operating expenses, including components and raw materials; failure to develop new products or integrate
new technology into current products; unfavorable results in legal proceedings; our ability to respond and adapt to unexpected
legal, regulatory and government budgetary changes, including those resulting from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, such as
supply chain disruptions, vaccine mandates, the threat of future variants and potential governmentally-mandated shutdowns,
quarantine policies, travel restrictions and social distancing, curtailment of trade, diversion of government resources to
non-defense priorities, and other business restrictions affecting our ability to manufacture and sell our products and provide
our services; our ability to comply with the covenants in our loan documents; our ability to attract and retain skilled
employees; the impact of inflation; and general economic and business conditions in the United States and elsewhere in the
world; and the failure to establish and maintain effective internal control over financial reporting. For a further list
and description of such risks and uncertainties, see the reports we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
We do not intend, and undertake no obligation, to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise.