AEVEX Aerospace

AEVEX Aerospace is a defence-technology company headquartered in Solana Beach, California, with further sites in California, Florida, Virginia and other US states. Roger Wells is CEO; Madison Dearborn Partners is an investor. In April 2026 the company went public on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker AVEX; for 2025 it reported revenue of about 433 million US dollars, 78 per cent of it from the US government.

Its unmanned aircraft for precision strike and long-endurance missions include Atlas, Disruptor, Raker and Vandal, as well as the Mariana ISR aircraft. AEVEX built the Phoenix Ghost tactical drones that the US Department of Defense supplied to Ukraine from 2022.

With the CompassX software family the company offers autonomy and navigation for GPS-denied environments, strengthened by the acquisition of Veth Research Associates. Through the takeover of BlackSea Technologies it added unmanned surface vessels such as Mako Lite.