SAN DIEGO, Aug. 19, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS ), a leading National Security Solutions provider, announced today that its Public Safety & Security Solutions (PSS) Division has recently received a $10 million critical infrastructure security award. The contract award, received from a large mass transit authority in the United States, calls for Kratos PSS to design, engineer, deploy and integrate into a command and control infrastructure a state of the art security and surveillance system. The award will include deployment of security and surveillance elements on certain mobile assets. This recent contract award represents additional funding and a scope increase on a previously announced contract award. Due to the nature of the contract award, customer related and other considerations, no additional information is being provided.
Ben Goodwin, President of Kratos' PSS Division, said, "Our entire organization is proud to have received this most recent security and surveillance deployment award for this critical strategic customer. We believe that Kratos is a premier critical infrastructure security system integrator in the United States, and we are honored to participate in securing our Homeland."
About Kratos Defense & Security Solutions
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS ) is a specialized National Security technology Company providing mission critical products, services and solutions for United States National Security. Kratos' core capabilities are sophisticated engineering, manufacturing and system integration offerings for National Security platforms and programs. Kratos' areas of expertise include Command, Control, Communications, Computing, Combat Systems, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR), satellite communication systems, electronic warfare, unmanned systems, missile defense, cyber warfare, cybersecurity, information assurance, and critical infrastructure security. Kratos has primarily an engineering and technically oriented work force of approximately 3,900. The vast majority of Kratos' work is performed on a military base, in a secure facility or at a critical infrastructure location. Kratos' primary end customers are National Security related agencies. News and information are available at www.KratosDefense.com .
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