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Kratos Defense & Security Solutions completed the Critical Design Review for the Space Development Agency’s Advanced Fire Control Ground Infrastructure system on February 26, 2026.
Kratos proposed a $1 billion public offering of common stock to fund further investments in national security priorities and targeted acquisitions.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions proposed a $1 billion public offering of common stock to fund further investments in national security priorities and targeted acquisitions.
Kratos Defense and Security Solutions offers an OpenSpace software-defined ground system.
Kratos Defense and Security Solutions’ OpenSpace platform is described as a software-defined ground platform.
Kratos’ space division is experiencing growth while software-defined satellites arriving later are catching up with OpenSpace ground station technology.
Kratos will leverage its SRE (Southern Research Engineering) division’s decades of expertise to analyze varied flight environments under the JHTO program.
Lockheed Martin Corporation, L3Harris Technologies, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Parsons Corporation, and Peraton are major companies operating in the space situational awareness market.
Kratos will begin executing material test campaigns immediately using the newly developed methodologies as a model for the broader hypersonic testing community.
Kratos is the prime contractor for the $1.45 billion MACH-TB 2.0 program, which provides a flight test bed to bridge the gap between ground testing and full system flight tests.
Kratos received a $68.3 million award in October 2025 for Project Helios to construct a mid-tier arc jet and fiber laser facility.
The JHTO contract focuses on maturing the analytical models and test setpoints required to validate Kratos’ multi-million dollar hypersonics investments.
Kratos intends for the results of its JHTO testing to serve as a benchmark for future aerothermal evaluations.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions received a contract from the Department of War’s Joint Hypersonics Transition Office on February 18, 2026 to support test and evaluation of thermal protection systems for hypersonic vehicles.
Kratos’ JHTO testing efforts are expected to alleviate bottlenecks in the U.S. defense industrial base caused by limited high-fidelity testing slots that have delayed transition of innovative materials from the lab to the field.
Kratos will perform the JHTO material testing work at its specialized facilities.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions opened a 55,000-square-foot manufacturing and payload integration facility in Princess Anne, Maryland on January 13, 2026.
Kratos is ramping up operations at its Princess Anne facility as part of support for hypersonic test activities.
The industrial base supporting high-speed defense requirements scaled in mid-January 2026 with activation of Kratos Defense’s newest manufacturing hub for hypersonic systems.
Kratos is positioned to capture a larger share of the tactical space and launch market as the Department of War normalizes active defense and accelerated production.