Kratos Defense & Security Solutions will expand the workforce of its SRE Birmingham arm and invest in its advanced concepts engineering facility over the next five years to drive business growth. The company said Tuesday it will hire 76 engineers, technicians and support staff to add to its current 140-employee count and further contribute to […] More

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has tested an unmanned tactical aerial platform during a series of flight demonstrations in line with its development under the U.S. Air Force’s Skyborg program. The company said Monday it partnered with the Air Force Research Laboratory and other USAF components to carry out flight tests for two production XQ-58A […] More

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions will provide its software-defined satellite ground system for use in support of operating Intelsat’s ground and space systems to help deliver network services to customers. The OpenSpace Platform of Kratos is eyed to enable deployment of carrier-grade services to Intelsat clients in minutes rather than the usual weeks-long duration, the […] More

Robert Wright, a retired U.S. Air Force serviceman with three decades of experience in the space domain, has joined Stellar Solutions as its vice president of intelligence systems. The global aerospace engineering company said Wright held military leadership roles in various areas such as satellite communications and the Global Positioning System, and oversaw data strategy, […] More

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions and Kymeta have teamed up to build a software-defined remote terminal that can communicate with satellites in low-, medium-Earth and geosynchronous orbits. The envisioned Digitally-Transformed Remote Terminal will combine a Kratos OpensSpace ground system-based universal customer premise equipment with a Kymeta electronically steered antenna to enable various multi-beam and multi-band […] More

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has received a $12 million order for satellite command and control system products, hardware and equipment in support of the U.S. military. The award includes satellite services such as mission activity and maneuver planning, telemetry processing, orbit and altitude adjustment, simulation, security, training and testing, Kratos said Wednesday. According to […] More

Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems and Dallas, Texas-headquartered military services provider RPS Defense are collaborating to provide operational and maintenance service in support of the former’s tactical UAS. Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, KUAS’ parent company, said Tuesday the partnership will see RPS supporting its UAS technologies as they transition from the prototyping and demonstration phases […] More

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has delivered the first set of OpenSpace technologies to Northrop Grumman in support of its development of the Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node space-ground prototype for the U.S. Army. OpenSpace quantum and SpectralNet products will be used to virtualize TITAN’s processing of data coming from various commercial satellite systems to […] More

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions’ satellite ground system platform can now be deployed on Red Hat‘s private cloud environment in an effort to enable customers to securely operate signals when conducting satellite missions and operations. Kratos said Monday its OpenSpace platform intended for dynamic ground missions can be used on RedHat’s OpenStack cloud environment, allowing […] More

Matthew Travis, CEO of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body, said placing the first two third-party assessment organizations into the CMMC marketplace means the Defense Department-initiated program has begun moving through the gears after more than one year of planning and discussion among stakeholders. In a Government Matters interview posted Sunday, he noted that […] More

A division of Kratos Defense and Security Solutions landed a U.S. Navy contract to build a hypersonic, experimental test vehicle intended to demonstrate the maturation of high-speed flight platform used in missile defense and hypersonic study. Kratos’ Defense and Rocket Support Services Division will develop the flight vehicle aimed at innovating technologies for rapid testing […] More

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has secured over $46 million in several awards to support various space domain awareness programs. Kratos' OpenSpace software is designed to facilitate adjustments of satellite ground systems to environmental or operational changes.

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