Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. KTOS

What this company does

Kratos is a technology, hardware, products, systems and software company that addresses the defense, national security, and commercial markets. Its primary business areas include virtualized ground systems for satellites and space vehicles, jet-powered unmanned aerial drone systems, hypersonic vehicles and rocket systems, propulsion systems for drones and missiles, command, control, communication, computing, combat, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C5ISR) products, microwave electronic products for missile, radar and air defense systems, and virtual and augmented reality training systems for the warfighter. As of December 28, 2025, it had a work force of approximately 4,300 full-time, part-time and on-call employees in approximately 14 countries. Revenues from U.S. Government agency customers, for whose contracts the company acts as prime contractor or as subcontractor, accounted for approximately 68% of total revenues in 2025. The company operates in two reportable segments, Kratos Government Solutions (KGS) and Unmanned Systems (US), each an aggregation of underlying operating segments. The company was incorporated in the state of New York on December 19, 1994, began operations in March 1995, and reincorporated in Delaware in 1998.

Written from the business description in KRATOS DEFENSE & SECURITY SOLUTIONS, INC.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 23 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.