Kratos

In the past, Kratos publicized plans to develop a second hypersonic vehicle named Dark Fury, but offered few details.

GE Aerospace and Kratos have announced the joint development of a new scalable engine aimed at missiles, uncrewed aircraft systems and even potential CCA use.

The Missile Defense Agency reports it has launched a Hypersonic Testbed to demonstrate a new experimental testing platform.

Development work on the U.S. Air Force’s experimental, hypersonic Mayhem vehicle has been paused following the completion of an early design milestone.

The U.S. Marine Corps is in the study phase of its collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) effort.

About three years before its first scheduled fielding, the U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft fleet has a new group of F-16-based testbed aircraft.

A new Royal Air Force strategy lays out plans for the introduction of larger systems after having developed small, swarming platforms.

The integration will allow the Navy to experiment with autonomous capabilities as it continues developing concepts for crewed-uncrewed teaming capabilities.

The service will select two companies to begin building CCAs, though with a cost-sharing agreement to bring along a third.

The San Diego-based UAS, propulsion and sensor company decided not to offer a bid for a high-profile UAS program as a prime contractor.

The service, blocked from starting new acquisition programs, used a long-standing autonomy demonstration effort to begin CCA work.

As the first U.S. hypersonic weapons enter service, defense officials are searching for new ideas for high-speed propulsion and to dramatically reduce prices.

More details about France’s V-MAX hypersonic glider flight test have emerged.

Kratos briefings since 2018 have included references to a secret internal program named Thanatos, but the company had never before shown the concept.

As XB-1 nears flight tests and the final assembly site comes together, Boom is focused on Overture airframe and engine design firm configuration.

A market survey released by the Air Force calls for higher engine thrust than what candidates for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft have flown so far.

Kratos' newly acquired 5GAT platform could also be developed to perform a "wide range of other applications," along with new configurations of the XQ-58.

The series of tests by the 40th Flight Test Squadron is being used to inform how the U.S. Air Force tests and applies the synthetic decision-making technology.

The linkup between Kratos Defense & Security Solutions and Australia’s Hypersonix Launch Systems is the latest in Hypersonix’s growth into the U.S. market.

The Zeus, a low-cost motor, designed to power Kratos’ Erinyes and Dark Fury hypersonic vehicles, completed a successful ground test in Arkansas.

The flight on Jan. 25 at the Eglin Test and Training Complex off the Florida coast builds on four years of experiments by the Air Force Research Laboratory.

The Valkyrie, a jet-powered, $4 million class attack uncrewed aircraft system, represents a new product class for the Hivemind autonomy technology.

All three updates came during the San Diego-based company’s first quarter earnings call with market analysts on May 3.

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions’ revenue increased 18.1% year-on-year to $231.8 million in the first quarter of 2023.

After spending a decade building up a portfolio of low-cost unmanned aircraft systems aimed at disrupting the low end of the market for autonomy in military aviation, Kratos Defense is now taking aim at the burgeoning market for hypersonic vehicles.