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Space

Kratos Receives Contract Worth Up to $579 Million for Control of Military Communications Satellites

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, November 16th, 2023

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Kratos Receives Contract Worth Up to $579 Million for Control of Military Communications Satellites

Boeing depiction of WGS-11

This month, the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command (SSC) said that it awarded Kratos [KTOS] a contract worth up to $579 million for the control of military communications satellites under the Command-and-Control System Consolidated (CCS-C) Sustainment and Resiliency (C-SAR) effort. Military communications satellites included in C-SAR include Boeing‘s [BA] Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS), and the Lockheed Martin [LMT] Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) III, Military Strategic and Tactical Relay (Milstar). and Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellites. "Other MILSATCOM satellite families…

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