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Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, trading as KTOS, provides ground system infrastructure and RF electronics for military satellite communication programs.
KTOSACTIVEKratos Defense & Security Solutions is a technology, products, system and software company for the defense, national security and commercial markets, with businesses in unmanned systems, space and satellite communications (including ground command, control and telemetry systems), microwave electronics, rocket and hypersonic systems, and propulsion.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions is a mid-cap defense technology company focused on rapid innovation for national security. Its Space & Satellite Communications division is a leading provider of ground system solutions, satellite signal monitoring, and electronic warfare systems. Kratos produces the OpenSpace platform for virtualized satellite ground systems, enabling software-defined ground architectures. The company is also a key supplier of microwave electronics, signal processing equipment, and drone target systems for DoD testing and training.
Not ranked: No measurable space activity in our data (space-coded federal awards or subcontracts, space revenue in the company’s SEC annual report, an orbital launch, or a space-segment profile: for a defense company or a diversified aerospace group, a subsector naming space work, and for a diversified group a space line cited at $100M or more): scored, but not ranked as a space company.
6 of 7 inputs measured · Insufficient data · 100% of applicable weight backed by data
Not measured: Open-role change (90 days)
A pillar score averages the company’s percentiles among the tracked companies with a value: relative standing, not a grade. Inputs measured 2026-10-14 (UTC) · methodology v6. Every input, its value and percentile · How it is computed
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1 Chisholm Trail, Suite 300, Round Rock, Texas 78681
Sources: Founded, Headquarters, CEO, Employees, Legal name
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No private round on record before Nov 1999. IPO, offerings, debt and unconverted notes are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.
Carrier monitoring and interference detection system for satellite operators, part of an RF interference mitigation suite with SatGuard (VSAT interference) and satID (geolocation).
Virtualized, software-defined satellite ground system platform enabling multi-orbit, multi-band satellite operations from a single architecture.
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Estimated: around Tue, Nov 3, 2026 (not announced by the company) · period ending September 2026
Estimated from the company's own SEC filings: it reported the same period a year earlier on Tue, Nov 4, 2025. The company has not announced this date.
Results filed Tue, Aug 4, 2026, after the market closed · period ending June 2026
Share move: not captured (no closing quote was recorded for that session)
Results filing (SEC) (opens in a new tab) · Press release (opens in a new tab)
Quarterly report (10-Q)
Quarterly report (10-Q) · · Read the filing on SEC.gov (opens in a new tab) · Filing index (opens in a new tab)
Quarterly or annual results
8-K items: 2.02 Quarterly or annual results · 9.01 Documents attached
Current report (8-K) · · Read the filing on SEC.gov (opens in a new tab) · Press release (EX-99.1) (opens in a new tab) · Filing index (opens in a new tab)
Amendment: Passive holder of 5% or more (Schedule 13G/A)
Amendment: Passive holder of 5% or more (Schedule 13G/A) · · Read the filing on SEC.gov (opens in a new tab) · Filing index (opens in a new tab)
Shareholder vote results
8-K items: 5.07 Shareholder vote results · 9.01 Documents attached
Current report (8-K) · · Read the filing on SEC.gov (opens in a new tab) · Filing index (opens in a new tab)
Quarterly report (10-Q)
Quarterly report (10-Q) · · Read the filing on SEC.gov (opens in a new tab) · Filing index (opens in a new tab)
Quarterly or annual results
8-K items: 2.02 Quarterly or annual results · 9.01 Documents attached
Current report (8-K) · · Read the filing on SEC.gov (opens in a new tab) · Press release (EX-99.1) (opens in a new tab) · Filing index (opens in a new tab)
Compiled Oct 14, 2026 from 4 public records. Every figure links the record it comes from. Facts only: nothing here is a rating, a forecast or a recommendation.
Space federal awards
10 awards, $4.2M obligated
Awards with activity since Oct 1, 2018, as searched Sep 24, 2026. Awarded Jul 27, 2018 to Sep 12, 2025; most from NASA (10 awards)
Counts awards the government's own product code or programme title marks as space work, or the space research industry code; the satellite-telecoms industry code counts only together with a space agency, office or a space word in the award's own description. Obligated dollars, not ceilings; umbrella contracts (IDVs) are left out because their orders are counted one by one. Amounts as USAspending reported them on Sep 24, 2026.
Source: USAspending.gov recipient profile (all awards, not only space)
Latest award Sep 12, 2025
Latest space award
$250K from NASA
MMPACTS PROJECT PLANS TO DEVELOP, DELIVER, AND DEMONSTRATE ON-DEMAND CAPABILITIES TO PROTECT ASTRONAUTS AND CREATE INFRASTRUCTURE ON THE LU...
Source: USAspending.gov award record
Awarded Sep 12, 2025
SEC filings, last 12 months
209 filings
Including 4 periodic reports and 9 current reports
Source: SEC EDGAR company filings
Latest Sep 28, 2026
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
10 space awards, $4.2M obligated
USAspending.gov award record, Sep 12, 2025
APA
SpaceNexus. (2026, October 14). Kratos Defense & Security Solutions: Company dossier [Data set]. Retrieved October 14, 2026, from https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/kratos-defense
Chicago
SpaceNexus. "Kratos Defense & Security Solutions: Company dossier." Data as of October 14, 2026. Accessed October 14, 2026. https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/kratos-defense.
BibTeX
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title = {{Kratos Defense \& Security Solutions}: Company dossier},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-10-14},
note = {Data as of 2026-10-14; each fact links its primary source}
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