Kratos Receives Approximate $100 Million Sole Source Prime Space Domain Awareness System Program Award
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Kratos (NASDAQ: KTOS) announced it has received an approximate $100 million sole source prime contract for production of a ground-based modular space domain awareness system. The system, recently developed, tested and demonstrated, will now transition into production.
According to Kratos, work under the award will be performed at its secure production and integration facilities. Management highlighted the program’s potential importance to the company’s DRSS business and positioned Kratos’ products as aligned with the ongoing recapitalization of U.S. strategic space and defense systems.
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- Approximate $100 million sole source prime production contract award
- Ground-based space domain awareness system moving from demonstration into production
- Work to be executed at secure Kratos production and integration facilities
- Management sees potential for program to become key DRSS business contributor
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Ground Based Modular System Recently Demonstrated Mission Effectiveness
SAN DIEGO, July 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: KTOS), a Technology Company in the Defense, National Security and Global Markets, today announced that the company has recently received an approximate
Mike Johns, Kratos Senior Vice President, said, “Kratos is proud to have developed, tested and demonstrated this true technology-leading space domain awareness system, which will now be entering production. Our entire organization is extremely proud to have the confidence with our customer to move forward with this mission critical national security system. Based on customer feedback, we believe that this program could in the future become one of the most important for our DRSS business.”
Eric Demarco, Kratos’ President and CEO, said, “We believe that across our company, Kratos has the right, relevant products, at the right time, at the right cost points—products which can be rapidly mass produced and fielded now. There is a generational rebuild and recapitalization of the U.S. defense industrial base under way, including for strategic space systems, to deter and defeat our enemies, and Kratos is committed to supporting the Department of War and the success of its mission.”
Due to security related, competitive and other considerations, no additional information will be provided.
About Kratos Defense & Security Solutions
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: KTOS) is a technology, products, system and software company addressing the defense, national security, and commercial markets. Kratos makes true internally funded research, development, capital and other investments, to rapidly develop, produce and field solutions that address our customers’ mission critical needs and requirements. At Kratos, affordability is a technology, and we seek to utilize proven, leading-edge approaches and technology, not unproven bleeding edge approaches or technology, with Kratos’ approach designed to reduce cost, schedule and risk, enabling us to be first to market with cost effective solutions. We believe that Kratos is known as an innovative disruptive change agent in the industry, a company that is an expert in designing products and systems up front for successful rapid, large quantity, low-cost future manufacturing which is a value-add competitive differentiator for our large traditional prime system integrator partners and also to our government and commercial customers. Kratos intends to pursue program and contract opportunities as the prime or lead contractor when we believe that our probability of win (PWin) is high and any investment required by Kratos is within our capital resource comfort level. We intend to partner and team with a large, traditional system integrator when our assessment of PWin is greater or required investment is beyond Kratos’ comfort level. Kratos’ primary business areas include virtualized ground systems for satellites and space vehicles including software for command & control (C2) and telemetry, tracking and control (TT&C), jet powered unmanned aerial drone systems, hypersonic vehicles and rocket systems, propulsion systems for drones, missiles, loitering munitions, supersonic systems, space craft and launch systems, C5ISR and microwave electronic products for missile, radar, missile defense, space, satellite, counter UAS, directed energy, communication and other systems, and virtual & augmented reality training systems for the warfighter. For more information, visit www.KratosDefense.com and follow Kratos on LinkedIn and X.
Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are made on the basis of the current beliefs, expectations and assumptions of the management of Kratos and are subject to significant risks and uncertainty. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements. All such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and Kratos undertakes no obligation to update or revise these statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Although Kratos believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, these statements involve many risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from what may be expressed or implied in these forward-looking statements. For a further discussion of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from those expressed in these forward-looking statements, as well as risks relating to the business of Kratos in general, see the risk disclosures in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of Kratos for the year ended December 28, 2025, and in subsequent reports on Forms 10-Q and 8-K and other filings made with the SEC by Kratos.
Press Contact:
Claire Cantrell
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