Kratos Demonstrates Fully Virtualized SATCOM Over LEO for U.S. Army
April 04 2024 - 8:00AM
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS), a
technology company in the defense, national security and global
markets, announced today that it successfully demonstrated a fully
virtualized satellite communications (SATCOM) ground system using
Kratos’ OpenSpace® Platform for the U.S. Army’s Program Executive
Office Command, Control, Communications-Tactical (PEO C3T). With
demonstration partners Telesat Government Solutions and Cobham
Satcom, the three companies showed dynamic support of simultaneous
communication pathways for resilient SATCOM at Low Earth Orbit
(LEO).
LEO constellations are strategic to military
operations, delivering connectivity with lower latency than a
traditional Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) satellite. These
capabilities will be increasingly important as future military
satellite communications (MILSATCOM) networks must quickly adapt to
multiple missions and multiple orbits. A virtualized ground system
such as OpenSpace provides far greater resiliency and agility
needed for these modern military operations, including multi-orbit,
multi-mission support when compared to traditional, hardware-based
systems. Kratos’ OpenSpace Platform is the industry’s only
commercially available, fully software-defined satellite ground
system.
The demonstration showed a flexible network
architecture that allowed soldiers to connect Telesat’s LEO 3
satellite through Cobham antennas. Kratos’ OpenEdgeTM 2500
digitizer was integrated with Cobham’s Tracker 1300TT antenna,
enabling standardized traffic (DIFI) to pass directly from Cobham’s
digital-ready antenna through virtualized modems at the network’s
edge to the LEO 3 satellite.
In future conflicts, it will be crucial to have
multi-orbit operations seamlessly share information among military
branches and international partners. Kratos has worked with several
satellite service operators over the past year to test and verify
functionality of OpenSpace as a gateway and edge platform at each
of the major orbital belts, GEO, MEO and LEO. Kratos has
successfully demonstrated the openness, flexibility and
interoperability of OpenSpace in other satellite orbits, with other
satellite operators and equipment partners.
Chris Badgett, Vice President of Technology for
Kratos Space, said, “Every mission has different requirements for
space connectivity requiring maximum flexibility to leverage
multiple satellites, networks and network elements. Only a
software-defined platform can provide the levels of adaptability at
mission speed along with the openness to maximize available network
resources. Both Telesat and Cobham are at the forefront in this
digital transformation of satellite ground systems.”
Funding for this project was through the Network
Cross-Functional Team (N-CFT) established by the Army Future
Command.
About Kratos OpenSpaceKratos’
OpenSpace family of solutions enables the digital transformation of
satellite ground systems to become a more dynamic and powerful part
of the space network. The family consists of three product lines:
OpenSpace SpectralNet for converting satellite RF signals to be
used in digital environments; OpenSpace quantum products, which are
virtual versions of traditional hardware components; and the
OpenSpace Platform, the first commercially available,
fully-orchestrated, software-defined ground system. These three
OpenSpace lines enable satellite operators and other service
providers to implement digital operations at their own pace and in
ways that meet their unique mission goals and business models. For
more information about the OpenSpace family visit
http://KratosDefense.com/OpenSpace.
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.
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