A Kratos Defense & Security Solutions division received a potential $4.9M U.S. Army contract to develop a system for military personnel to assess anti-drone, high-power microwave technology and electronic jamming activity.

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Kratos Defense and Security Solutions and Space Vector have teamed up to design, manufacture and integrate a suborbital launch vehicle under the U.S. Air Force’s Sounding Rocket Program-4. The industry team will build the rocket to support tests of prototype weapons and missile defense systems, Kratos said Wednesday. Space Vector and Northrop Grumman‘s innovation systems segment won positions […] More

A Kratos subsidiary has received a $32 million task order to engineer a high-energy laser system for the U.S. Army. Digital Fusion Solutions will work to integrate and test the system, provide training to users and maintain the laser under the contract, Kratos said Tuesday. “We are very excited with this win because it enables […] More

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 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 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 and Security Solutions will collaborate with Corvid Technologies to help the U.S. Navy build test targets for the Ballistic Missile Defense System under a potential five-year, $223M contract.

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Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has landed a potential $29M contract to build technology prototypes, subsystems and components for the U.S. Army‘s directed energy system modernization initiative. The company said Wednesday it aims to help advance DE platforms intended to help the Army Space and Missile Defense Command and Army Forces Strategic Command perform counter-rocket, artillery, mortar, drone, […] More

East Hartford, Conn.-based firm Pratt & Whitney has invested approximately $100 million to support its defense programs at its West Palm Beach facility in Florida with the aim to generate 215 new jobs through 2022. The investment will be used to expand the site and develop new equipment for manufacturing new technologies, the United Technologies […] More

Orbital ATK has agreed to reaffirm Kratos Defense & Security Solutions’ exclusive rights to offer Oriole solid propellant rocket motors in suborbital research, sounding rocket and threat representative target market areas. Kratos said Tuesday its space and missile defense systems business unit will leverage the exclusive rights agreement with Orbital ATK’s missile products division to produce […] More

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions helped Space Vector and the U.S. Space Force launch a scientific experiment via a sounding rocket from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on March 3. Kratos said Friday its team for the Sounding Rocket Program-4 effort lifted up the sounding launch vehicle, which carried a scientific experiment from the Air Force Research Laboratory.

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