Kratos Successfully Completes First Factory Acceptance Test of EPOCH® Command and Control System with Airbus’ Software-Defined Satellite
Rhea-AI Summary
Kratos (Nasdaq: KTOS) completed a factory acceptance test of its EPOCH Command and Control (C2) software with Airbus’ OneSat software-defined satellite platform on Dec. 30, 2025. The test verified EPOCH hardware and software interoperability with a simulated OneSat, met safety and redundancy requirements, and was accepted by Airbus as ready for delivery and operational use.
Kratos added capabilities to EPOCH to support OneSat’s dynamic in-orbit reconfiguration and autonomy and developed advanced ground features for traffic planning, resource orchestration, and performance monitoring.
Positive
- Factory acceptance test completed and accepted by Airbus
- EPOCH verified to communicate with simulated OneSat satellite
- Software updates to support dynamic in-orbit reconfiguration
- Added ground capabilities for traffic planning and orchestration
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- None.
News Market Reaction – KTOS
In the Dec 30 session, KTOS declined 1.92%, reflecting a mild negative market reaction.
Data tracked by StockTitan Argus on the day of publication.
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Historical Context
| Date | Event | Sentiment | 24h Move | Catalyst |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23 | Hypersonic motors LOI | Positive | +0.9% | Letter of intent for 60 Zeus hypersonic solid rocket motors from L3Harris. |
| Dec 05 | Engine MRO expansion | Positive | -1.9% | Opened 10,000 sq ft engine overhaul facility in Vancouver for PT6 MRO. |
| Nov 17 | Microwave facility open | Positive | -3.0% | Opened 60,000 sq ft Jerusalem microwave electronics facility with 20,000 sq ft clean rooms. |
| Nov 13 | Propulsion plant move | Positive | -6.5% | New 22,500 sq ft Spartan propulsion manufacturing facility for high-rate engine production. |
| Nov 12 | Hypersonic facility update | Positive | +0.1% | Update on $50M+ Indiana hypersonic integration facility targeting 2026 readiness. |
24h Move is the share-price change in the day after each event; other market factors may also have contributed.
Recent positive expansion and capacity announcements often saw mixed to negative next-day price reactions, suggesting investors have sometimes faded growth and infrastructure news.
Over the past months, Kratos highlighted multiple growth and capability investments, including a 68,000 sq ft hypersonic payload facility in Indiana estimated at more than $50 million, new propulsion and engine overhaul facilities of 22,500 and 10,000 sq ft, and a 60,000 sq ft microwave electronics site. It also issued a letter of intent for 60 Zeus hypersonic rocket motors. Against this backdrop of expansion, today’s successful factory acceptance test with Airbus for the EPOCH C2 system extends Kratos’ positioning in software-defined satellite ground infrastructure.
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Unlocks the Agility of Airbus’ OneSat® Platform Enabling Operators to Instantly Reshape Coverage and Reconfigure Missions In-Orbit
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS), a technology company in Defense, National Security and Global Markets, today announced the successful completion of factory acceptance testing between its EPOCH Command and Control (C2) software and Airbus’ OneSat next generation software-defined satellite platform.
Unlike traditional fixed satellite systems, Airbus’ OneSat software-defined satellite platform offers dynamic, in-orbit reconfiguration capabilities, dramatically enhancing mission flexibility. These advances, however, introduce new levels of complexity for the ground control systems that manage them.
Addressing this need, Kratos added new capabilities to a recent release of the EPOCH C2 software to support the dynamic nature of the OneSat satellite platform. This included the ability to work in tandem with OneSat’s highly dynamic configurations, frequent updates, and greater autonomy onboard the software-defined spacecraft.
“This successful milestone reflects the close collaboration we’ve established with Airbus in developing software-defined space capabilities,” said Maurizio Scotta, President of Kratos Communications. "The flexibility of our EPOCH command and control system design and the experience of our personnel allows us to work with Airbus to unlock the full potential of the OneSat Platform — enabling greater flexibility, faster reconfiguration, and smarter operations for our mutual customers.”
The factory acceptance test demonstrated the compatibility of EPOCH’s C2 system with Airbus’ OneSat Platform. During this process, Kratos and Airbus engineers verified that the EPOCH system’s hardware and software functioned as designed, could communicate with a simulated satellite, and meet all safety and redundancy requirements. With all mission scenarios successfully tested, the system was accepted by Airbus, confirming its readiness for delivery and operational use.
Elodie Viau, Senior Vice President of Telecommunication and Navigation for Airbus Defence and Space said, “This achievement gives us full confidence in the reliability and performance of the EPOCH system that will operate our satellites in orbit. It’s an important step forward as we prepare for launch and continue delivering innovative software-defined satellites to our customers.”
Kratos has been providing industry leading satellite command and control systems to customers for over 20 years. This milestone demonstrates Kratos’ advancements in the ground system to support software-defined satellites. Beyond command and control, Kratos has also developed new advanced ground capabilities for traffic planning, resource orchestration, and performance monitoring to support software-defined satellites.
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, advanced 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.
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 29, 2024, and in subsequent reports on Forms 10-Q and 8-K and other filings made with the SEC by Kratos.
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