The expo features presentations and exhibits by business partners, educational institutions, and senior DoD and FAA officials exploring opportunities for research and development support. Kratos is actively supporting this event and believes that expositions of this type are critical for the United States to keep and maintain its lead in aviation. Craig McPherson, who is a Vice President for Kratos Government Solutions and is the former Air Force Program Manager for Global Hawk, one of the most successful large Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to date, is leading the Unmanned Aircraft Systems track for the expo. Kratos believes that UAVs and UASs will be a major focus area in aviation’s future. This track explores where UAVs are going in the future, how to move current capabilities into the future, a review of large UAVs and the migration to small and micro UAVs, future concepts for UAV command and control, and new uses and types of UAV missions. In addition, Kratos, as a leader in sensor technology, is supporting the sensors track with a discussion on Polarimetric imaging sensors.
Howard Bates, President of Kratos Government Solutions, said, “Participation in this important event underscores our growing capabilities in the UAV arena, high end sensor market, and is complimented by our most recent successful flight test of our canister-launched NLOS-T unmanned system.” The NLOS-T is a program for a canister launched missile or unmanned system capable of delivering a variety of lethal and non-lethal payloads, and of providing Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance information, and is completely autonomous using a GPS assisted Inertial Navigation System (INS) to fly a pre-programmed mission. The NLOS-T program was created to demonstrate a dramatically unique approach toward the development of flexible and affordable, yet highly effective weapon systems.
