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Kratos Announces New Director as Part of Ongoing Board Refresh and Augmentation Process

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024
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As the result of an ongoing Board augmentation and refreshment process, the Company has appointed Brigadier General (Retired) Bobbi Doorenbos to the Kratos Board of Directors, effective March 28, 2024.

Key Points: 
  • As the result of an ongoing Board augmentation and refreshment process, the Company has appointed Brigadier General (Retired) Bobbi Doorenbos to the Kratos Board of Directors, effective March 28, 2024.
  • General Doorenbos brings significant relevant and diverse experience and expertise to the Kratos Board.
  • In her nearly 25 years of distinguished military service, General Doorenbos has served in leadership positions in the White House, Headquarters Air Force, and National Guard Bureau.
  • "We are pleased to welcome General Doorenbos to the Company’s Board of Directors.

Kratos and Shield AI Conduct AI-Piloted Flights on the Kratos Tactical Firejet

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Monday, April 1, 2024
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Having successfully flown AI pilots on five aircraft — three classes of quadcopters, the MQ-35A V-BAT, and the F-16 in fully autonomous air combat training — Shield AI’s Hivemind AI pilot has now successfully flown on and controlled the Kratos Tactical Firejet.

Key Points: 
  • Having successfully flown AI pilots on five aircraft — three classes of quadcopters, the MQ-35A V-BAT, and the F-16 in fully autonomous air combat training — Shield AI’s Hivemind AI pilot has now successfully flown on and controlled the Kratos Tactical Firejet.
  • These successful flights are a major milestone in the comprehensive integration project as Shield AI and Kratos look to ultimately productize another configuration of the Valkyrie, in this case with Shield AI’s Hivemind AI pilot.
  • It was over three years from signing the contract to flying the F-16; now, it’s less than 180 days for the Kratos Firejet.
  • The vision of portable autonomy software for military hardware has been realized, flown, and deployed by Shield AI,” said Ryan Tseng, Shield AI’s CEO and Co-Founder.

Shield AI to Acquire Australia-Based Sentient Vision Systems and Establish Shield AI Australia

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Thursday, April 4, 2024
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WASHINGTON, April 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Shield AI, Inc., the defense technology company building the world's best AI pilot, has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Sentient Vision Systems (Sentient), an Australia-based leader in AI-enabled real-time situational awareness, pending customary closing conditions and regulatory approval.

Key Points: 
  • WASHINGTON, April 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Shield AI, Inc., the defense technology company building the world's best AI pilot, has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Sentient Vision Systems (Sentient), an Australia-based leader in AI-enabled real-time situational awareness, pending customary closing conditions and regulatory approval.
  • In August 2023, the companies announced the joint development of a ViDAR-enabled wide area motion imagery (WAMI) solution called "Sentient Observer," which Shield AI plans to fly this year.
  • For Shield AI, Sentient Observer is the final piece of that puzzle.
  • Shield AI has accumulated more autonomous flight hours executing fighter jet maneuvers, like dogfighting, than any company in the world.

Shield AI Conducts AI-Piloted Flights on Sixth Aircraft, the Kratos MQM-178 Firejet

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Friday, March 29, 2024
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SAN DIEGO, March 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Shield AI, Inc., a defense technology company building the world's best AI pilot, and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS), a Technology Company in the Defense, National Security and Global Markets and an industry-leading provider of high-performance, jet-powered unmanned aerial systems (UAS), today announced the successful completion of the first phase of Shield's AI-piloted flight-testing on-board Kratos platforms as the two companies move toward productizing Shield AI's pilot for the XQ-58 Valkyrie.

Key Points: 
  • Having successfully flown AI pilots on five aircraft — three classes of quadcopters, the MQ-35A V-BAT, and the F-16 in fully autonomous air combat training — Shield AI's Hivemind AI pilot has now successfully flown on and controlled the Kratos MQM-178 Firejet.
  • These successful flights are a major milestone in the comprehensive integration project as Shield AI and Kratos look to ultimately productize another configuration of the Valkyrie, in this case with Shield AI's Hivemind AI pilot.
  • The vision of portable autonomy software for military hardware has been realized, flown, and deployed by Shield AI," said Ryan Tseng, Shield AI's CEO and Co-Founder.
  • The MQM-178 Firejet marks the sixth type of aircraft that our AI pilot Hivemind has flown.

AFA Appoints New President & CEO

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Friday, March 22, 2024
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ARLINGTON, Va., March 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Retired Lt. Gen. Burt Field has been appointed President & Chief Executive Officer of the Air & Space Forces Association, the nation's foremost advocate for air and space power as the foundation of U.S. national defense.  

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  • "General Field is an outstanding and proven leader, whose extensive military, business, and non-profit volunteer experience make him the right leader to take AFA into its next chapter," said AFA Chair of the Board Bernie Skoch.
  • During that time, he commanded at the squadron, wing, and Numbered Air Force levels, including as commander of U.S.
  • Following retirement, Field was Vice President for Strategic Planning at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, building on his Pentagon experience and a personal passion for strategy.
  • Strategic planning, Field said, yields priorities, objectives, and metrics for performance, all things he will emphasize as AFA's next President & CEO.

iBase-t Announces Customer Brilliance Award Winners at Excelerate 2024

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Thursday, March 21, 2024
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LAKE FOREST, Calif., March 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- iBase-t, the company that simplifies how complex products are built and maintained, announced this year's recipients of its Customer Brilliance Awards, which celebrate the unique strategies customers in complex manufacturing industries have put in place to successfully drive innovation and evolution in their digital manufacturing, quality and MRO sustainment operations with iBase-t.

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  • The awards were presented at the company's business and user conference, Excelerate , which took place March 11-14, 2024 in Newport Beach, California.
  • Excelerate offers a stage for the best and brightest to demonstrate their success, share ideas, learn from one another, and ultimately, drive innovation across the industry through Solumina."
  • iBase-t Customer Brilliance Award Winners:
    Leidos has demonstrated outstanding commitment to the success of their Solumina platform as well as the company's dedication to maintaining the highest standards of quality and excellence across their organization.
  • Northrop Grumman demonstrated the strength of leadership to enforce an out-of-the-box deployment when business processes can be difficult to change.

Shield AI Selected by NAVAIR PMA-281 to Integrate Hivemind AI Pilot onto eighth aircraft: the Kratos BQM-177A

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024
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SAN DIEGO, March 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Shield AI, the defense technology company building the world's best AI pilot, today announced it has been selected by NAVAIR PMA-281 to integrate its AI Pilot onto the Kratos BQM-177A to enable advanced AI-based autonomy.

Key Points: 
  • SAN DIEGO, March 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Shield AI, the defense technology company building the world's best AI pilot, today announced it has been selected by NAVAIR PMA-281 to integrate its AI Pilot onto the Kratos BQM-177A to enable advanced AI-based autonomy.
  • "This will be the eighth different type of aircraft integration we've done; it will be the fourth jet aircraft.
  • Kratos has been a terrific partner in rolling out our AI pilot onto jet aircraft," said Brandon Tseng, Shield AI's President/Cofounder, a mechanical engineer, and a former U.S. Navy SEAL.
  • Shield AI's innovative technical approach for the Navy contract employs an AI architecture that starts with foundational autonomy behaviors.

International Test Pilots School (ITPS) Provides Tactical Training to Two Ukrainian Instructor Pilots and Receives Request from the Ukraine MOD to Train 30 More

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Thursday, March 7, 2024
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The Ukrainian Air Force has submitted a formal request with Canada's Department of National Defence to proceed with the training.

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  • The Ukrainian Air Force has submitted a formal request with Canada's Department of National Defence to proceed with the training.
  • Two Ukrainian pilot instructors began training in October 2023 and have forged a productive collaboration with the Ivan Kozhedub National Air Force University (KNAFU) in Ukraine.
  • This fighter pilot training pipeline will be essential to ensure Ukrainian Air Force air superiority once new Western fighters are introduced.
  • ITPS Canada and its tactical training division the International Tactical Training Centre (ITTC) is a Canadian success story, as the world's largest independent school of flight test training.

BREAKING: Another city joins the call: Three weapons manufacturers across Canada are now blockaded in an effort to stop flow of weapons to Israel

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Monday, February 26, 2024
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These rolling actions are a concerted effort to interrupt Canada's complicity in Israel's genocide against Gaza, just days after the UN called for an immediate arms embargo against Israel.

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  • These rolling actions are a concerted effort to interrupt Canada's complicity in Israel's genocide against Gaza, just days after the UN called for an immediate arms embargo against Israel.
  • In Peterborough, activists picketed a Safran Electronics facility, and spoke with many supportive workers about their employer's complicity in genocide.
  • "We are seeing different actions take place at arms companies across Canada demanding an immediate arms embargo against Israel.
  • Government officials have been misrepresenting the nature of Canada's military exports to Israel, and failing to uphold their legal responsibility under the Arms Trade Treaty.

BREAKING: Coordinated blockades at major weapons manufacturers to demand arms embargo on Israel

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Monday, February 26, 2024
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Toronto, Peterborough, Ontario, Feb. 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Two major arms manufacturers are being disrupted this morning, kicking off rolling actions to interrupt the flow of weapons to Israel.

Key Points: 
  • Toronto, Peterborough, Ontario, Feb. 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Two major arms manufacturers are being disrupted this morning, kicking off rolling actions to interrupt the flow of weapons to Israel.
  • Canada has enacted arms embargos before, and it must enact one now, immediately, to stop this genocidal violence."
  • "We are seeing different actions take place at arms companies across Canada demanding an immediate arms embargo against Israel.
  • On Friday, UN experts named Canada's military exports as a likely violation of international law in their urgent call for an immediate arms embargo against Israel.