Team BlueHalo Demonstrates Integrated Backend Mission Services for Space Force’s SCAR Program
May 22 2024 - 7:00AM
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS), a
technology company in the defense, national security and global
markets, announced today that its fully virtualized satellite
communications (SATCOM) ground system, OpenSpace®, was employed as
part of BlueHalo’s milestone demonstration for the U.S. Space Force
(USSF) Space Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) Satellite
Communication Augmentation Resource (SCAR) program.
BlueHalo, the prime contractor for the SCAR
program, successfully demonstrated the integrated backend mission
services to USSF Guardian operators at the 2024 Space Symposium in
Colorado Springs, CO. During the demonstration, Guardians received
an operator orientation for the SCAR system interface, including
the system scheduler and backend mission processor. Kratos’
OpenSpace Platform is an important piece of the backend system
which will pair with BlueHalo’s BADGER adaptive phased array
product to provide multi-beam, multi-orbit mission operations.
“The demonstration at the Space Symposium showed
vividly how the SCAR Program is leading in the digital
transformation of satellite ground systems to become a more dynamic
and resilient part of space domain operations,” commented Phil
Carrai, President of Kratos’ Space, Training & Cyber Division.
“With OpenSpace and Bluehalo’s BADGER technology, Guardians will be
able to rely upon an agile network infrastructure from the gateway
to the edge and all points in between.”
Kratos’ OpenSpace Platform is a fully
software-defined and orchestrated satellite ground system, enabling
scalable deployments within an elastic, cloud-agnostic, virtualized
environment built upon widely accepted industry standards and a
containerized architecture. With OpenSpace, Guardians can
instantiate new services in minutes instead of the weeks, or even
months, commonly required with traditional hardware-based ground
systems. For more information about the OpenSpace family visit
http://KratosDefense.com/OpenSpace.
“BlueHalo has checked off another milestone for
the SCAR program–not only demonstrating the system’s backend
mission services and user interface but, most importantly,
collecting valuable insight from Guardian operators who will rely
on this system for critical space operations,” said Mary Clum,
BlueHalo Executive Vice President and Sector President of Labs.
“With the strong partnerships we have forged with the Space Rapid
Capabilities Office and our partners like Kratos, BlueHalo is proud
to deliver innovations that will define our national security
capabilities for decades to come.”
BlueHalo’s $1.4B Satellite Communication
Augmentation Resource (SCAR) program was announced by the USSF
Space RCO in May of 2022 to significantly increase satellite
control capacity and support their dynamic missions going forward.
The program covers initial design through full-rate
production–delivering a fleet of transportable, ground-based
phased-array antennas and accompanying ground electronics and
software to provide robust, flexible command and control
capabilities for USSF satellites.
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.
About BlueHalo BlueHalo is
purpose-built to provide industry-leading capabilities in the areas
of Space, C-UAS and Autonomous Systems, Electronic Warfare &
Cyber, and AI/ML. The company develops and brings to market
next-generation capabilities to support customers’ critical
missions and national security. Learn more at
http://www.bluehalo.com and follow BlueHalo on LinkedIn.
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31, 2023, and in subsequent reports on Forms 10-Q and 8-K and other
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