Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has partnered with Australian start-up Hypersonix Launch Systems to offer the latter’s hypersonic technology demonstrator to the U.S. defense market. The San Diego, California-headquartered company said Wednesday it will procure 20 Hypersonix DART AE Hypersonic Systems and integrate the technology with its Zeus line of solid rocket propulsion systems. The […] More

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has partnered with venture-backed artificial intelligence technology developer Shield AI to make an unmanned aircraft system operate autonomously and bring the integrated offering to defense customers. The partnership seeks to incorporate an AI pilot into the XQ-58 Valkyrie, a combat drone Kratos is currently manufacturing for the U.S. military, Shield […] More

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has booked a potential five-year, $46.7 million contract to test thermal protection materials in submarine ballistic missile re-entry systems for the U.S. Navy. An initial $8.6 million award from the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division calls for thermomechanical and aerothermal ground tests via a simulated environment, the company said […] More

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions secured a $20 million subcontract to provide concurrency upgrades on multiple ground tactical platform maintenance training systems for the Defense Department.  The technology company said Thursday the contract was awarded by an unnamed prime contractor of the DOD.  The award builds on Kratos’ over two-decade history of supporting DOD and […] More

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions will handle Lot 19 production of the BQM-167A Air Force Subscale Aerial Targets under an award worth $21.7 million. The Firm Fixed Price delivery order provides for 17 BQM-167A AFSATs, mission kits, flight consumables and technical data and is part of a potential $374 million Air Force contract for procurement […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded Kratos Defense & Security Solutions a $49.6 million contract to manufacture and deliver high-subsonic, recoverable aerial target systems to the service branch and the governments of Canada and Australia. For the full rate production Lot 4 work, Kratos will provide 55 units of the BQM-177A target including 55 rocket-assisted takeoff attachment kits, […] More

The defense and rocket system services division of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has been given an initial task order to support Leidos in its work on the U.S. Air Force air-breathing hypersonic missile program. Kratos said Tuesday it will perform digitally engineered system requirement and conceptual design reviews of the Expendable Hypersonic Multi-Mission ISR […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded Kratos Defense & Security Solutions a nine-month, $15.5 million contract to manufacture and deliver two XQ-58A Valkyrie unmanned aerial systems. The drones will be equipped with sensor and weapon system payloads that support penetrating affordable autonomous collaborative killer objectives, the Defense Department said Friday.  Kratos’ unmanned aerial systems unit will receive the full […] More

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions and the U.S. Air Force performed a test flight of the XQ-58A Valkyrie unmanned combat aerial vehicle at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona as part of the Block 2 Valkyrie Maturation Program. Kratos and the Air Force Research Laboratory demonstrated the aircraft’s encrypted communications with redundant radios for operational and […] More

Leidos subsidiary Dynetics has subcontracted Kratos Defense & Security Solutions to support the development of a hypersonic flight test bed under a Department of Defense initiative for advancing national hypersonic testing capability. As a subcontractor in the Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonics Test Bed program, Kratos will utilize the expertise of its defense and rocket support […] More

A Kratos Defense & Security Solutions division helped the Department of Defense integrate and deploy a short-range ballistic missile that acted as threat representative target in a live-fire interception activity as part of Pacific Dragon military exercises. The Aegis Readiness Assessment Vehicle Type B utilized a rocket motor from Kratos engaged with a Standard Missile […] More

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has secured a potential $14.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide software engineering services in support of a sub-sonic aerial target for anti-ship cruise missile threat emulation. The Department of Defense said Thursday that Kratos’ unmanned aerial systems unit will conduct software analysis and modification as well as changes […] More