SAN DIEGO - Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS), a leading National Security Solutions provider, announced today that with the November
A secured U.S. Air Force contract could benefit Clinton-Sherman Airport near Burns Flat.
Last week it was announced that Kratos Defense & Security Solutions had secured a contract worth about $37.8 million to provide their Valkyrie aircraft to the U.S. Air Force as part of its Skyborg program.
The Valkyrie is an unmanned aerial vehicle that operates much like a fighter aircraft, designed to fly in tandem with a crewed fighter jet.
President of Kratos’ unmanned systems division Steve Fendley said the contract award includes three phases of design, integration, and flight testing of the Valkyrie system, integrating multiple customer-defined mission payloads and customer-defined autonomy in coordination and cooperation with the Skyborg System Design Agent company, Leidos.
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Naval Air Systems Command Exercises Option for an Additional $38.7 Million for Full Rate .
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc.December 10, 2020 GMT
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 10, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: KTOS), a leading National Security Solutions provider and industry-leading provider of high-performance, jet-powered unmanned aerial systems, announced today that Kratos has received an additional $38,691,360 from the U.S. Navy for Lot 2 of its recently-awarded Full Rate Production (FRP) contract for an additional 48 BQM-177A Subsonic Aerial Targets (SSAT) and associated technical data.