USAF orders AFSAT Lot 12
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions' subsidiary Composite Engineering (CEi) has received an $18.7 million award for the Lot 12 option on the Air Force Subscale Aerial Target (AFSAT) Lots 11-13 production contract, Kratos Defense announced on 23 February.
As per the contract, CEi will provide an additional 21 AFSAT production target aircraft built at its Sacramento production facility in California.
Kratos’ unmanned systems division, which includes CEi and Micro Systems (MSI), will perform the contract. MSI will supply most of the avionics that are used on the targets to include critical control/command and flight computer systems. CEi will provide aerial targets and technical support.
CEi target systems simulate performance characteristics of certain threat missiles and aircraft and are used by US and allied militaries as high fidelity enemy threat surrogates for weapons testing and training. CEi has been the sole-source provider of the BQM-167A AFSAT since 2002.
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