U.S. Army selects Kratos for missile component deliveries

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Kratos Defense & Security has received a $23.4 million contract to deliver short-range air defense Class V missile components to the U.S. Army.

The contract supports deliveries for the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command, which is responsible for optimizing materiel readiness for the branch. Under the three-year agreement, the company will be tasked with providing technical and engineering services in addition to delivering rocket motors, safe and arm devices, warheads, and batteries.

The agreement also includes foreign military sales deliveries for an unnamed customer. Kratos Defense & Rocket Support Services president David Carter says the contract advances U.S. security interests abroad.

"This FMS contract provides for critical short range air defense missile systems products that will help ensure the defensive infrastructure posture of one of our most critical allies and help preserve the national defense interests of the United States, now and well into the future," he said in a press release. "We are very pleased to continue to support the U.S. Army and its FMS Customers in this important effort."