Kratos Awarded $2.8 Million to Prototype Infrastructure Hardware and Software for Unified Data Library (UDL) to Support U.S. DoD
10 September 2021 - 10:00PM
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS), a
leading National Security Solutions provider, announced today that
the Space Systems Command (SSC) awarded the company $2.8 million in
funding to develop a prototype that automatically delivers
space-related Situational Awareness (SA) data to the Unified Data
Library (UDL). The UDL is a joint initiative of the Air Force
Research Laboratory and the Space Force’s Space Systems Command.
The cloud-based platform hosts space situational awareness data
from dozens of commercial, academic and government organizations
and provides a digital “storefront” for users of the data.
Today, DoD satellite operators utilize disparate
tools, networks and data sources at varying classification levels
to attempt to build a picture of the Radio Frequency (RF)
environment. Kratos’ award includes developing hardware and
software infrastructure that can deliver SA data to the UDL for
display and analysis. This virtualized infrastructure would be a
unifying tool across entities, providing the Government’s Common
Operating Environment (COE) access to near-real time SATCOM
spectral data, including RF signal environment factors such as
Electro Magnetic Interference (EMI) alerts, and signal geolocation
data at appropriate security levels.
"An infrastructure that gives immediate access
to the space-related SA data the UDL provides will be critical,"
commented Frank Backes, Senior Vice President, Kratos Space
Federal. "Future adversaries may interfere with large numbers of
commercial SATCOM links. The UDL and RF sensor networks will help
identify and address those interferers with data coming from a
variety of sources including Kratos’ own global sensor
network.”
One of the sources of data to the UDL, Kratos
operates a global sensor network that supplies to UDL, composed of
worldwide RF monitoring sites with steerable sensors and antennas
covering L, S, C, X, and Ku bands. Kratos’ state-of-the-art
technology for high-speed, accurate signal measurement enables
advanced analytics for Space Domain Awareness (SDA). Kratos’
24/7/365 Network Operations Center (NOC) is the central hub for
monitoring and integrating raw RF data from its global sensor
network. Advanced capabilities developed by Kratos have been
integrated into all levels of the infrastructure, from custom
algorithms employed in the sensor network, to industry-leading
commercial applications used in the NOC for data monitoring,
correlation and geolocation, as well as specially developed
analytics that provide real meaning behind the raw data. A
portfolio of services offered to government and commercial
customers include satellite position and maneuver detection, signal
characterization, interference detection, attribution, and
mitigation and signal geolocation.
About Kratos Defense & Security
SolutionsKratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc.
(NASDAQ:KTOS) develops and fields transformative, affordable
technology, platforms and systems for United States National
Security related customers, allies and commercial enterprises.
Kratos is changing the way breakthrough technology for these
industries are rapidly brought to market through proven commercial
and venture capital backed approaches, including proactive research
and streamlined development processes. At Kratos, affordability is
a technology and we specialize in unmanned systems, satellite
communications, cyber security/warfare, microwave electronics,
missile defense, hypersonic systems, training, combat systems and
next generation turbo jet and turbo fan engine development. For
more information go to www.KratosDefense.com.
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27, 2020, and in subsequent reports on Forms 10-Q and 8-K and other
filings made with the SEC by Kratos.
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