SDA awards Kratos $117 million for Advanced Fire Control Ground Infrastructure

The Space Development Agency has awarded Kratos a $117 million contract to design and deliver the Advanced Fire Control Ground Infrastructure.

Kratos will lead a group of industry partners in creating a “common, enduring ground infrastructure” for the AFC effort, which includes the Fire-control On Orbit-support to the warfighter (FOO Fighter) system and future fire-control programs, according to an SDA announcement.

As the prime contractor, Kratos will also fit-out and manage the government-owned Demonstration Operations Center and the cloud environment for software, a Kratos news release added.

Kratos is working with ASRC Federal Systems Solutions, Peraton, Sphinx Defense and Stellar Solutions, the company said.

For the ground infrastructure, Kratos will provide a ground resource manager, the company said, which will be built for FOO Fighter but designed to also support future fire control demonstrations.

“Advancements in missile technology and hypersonics that can travel at more than 3,000 mph present new adversarial threats and will require new defensive capabilities to identify, track and respond to them rapidly,” Phil Carrai, president of Kratos’ space division, said. “The AFCGI will serve as a standing sandbox for exploring and validating new technologies, solutions and techniques to address these threats with commensurate speed and agility.”