Kratos Awarded $48 Million Contract for Geolocation Global Support Services
09 January 2025 - 12:00AM
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS), a
technology company in the defense, national security and global
markets, announced that it was awarded a Geolocation Global Support
Services (GGSS) contract in the amount of $48 million.
Kratos will provide support services to Space
Forces Space electromagnetic interference managers and supporting
elements with EMI resolution services. Work will be performed in
Colorado Springs, Colorado, and is expected to be completed by Oct.
31, 2029. Due to customer related, competitive and
other considerations, no additional information will be provided
regarding the new contract award at this time. The Kratos owned and
operated global RF sensor network supplies intelligence across SDA
missions through a variety of available services, among them
bandwidth monitoring, geolocation, signal characterization,
interference mitigation and tracking and maneuver detection, as
well as other capabilities. Kratos' satellite communications
experts manage the 24/7 network operations center with coverage of
L, S, C, X, and Ku bands. RF data is monitored and collected by
Kratos’ global deployment of RF sensors comprising more than 21
worldwide sites hosting more than 190 fixed and steerable sensors
and antennas. Kratos internally funded and constructed, its
one-of-a-kind, world-wide, Space Domain Awareness network, and
currently counts the U.S. government and many of the world’s
largest commercial satellite operators as customers for its signal
management expertise.
About Kratos Defense & Security
SolutionsKratos 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.
Notice Regarding Forward-Looking
StatementsCertain 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
31, 2023, and in subsequent reports on Forms 10-Q and 8-K and other
filings made with the SEC by Kratos.
Press Contact:Claire
Burghoffclaire.burghoff@kratosdefense.com
Investor
Information:877-934-4687investor@kratosdefense.com
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