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Kratos to Help Oversee System Requirements Review for Leidos’ Mayhem Proposal

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, January 10th, 2023

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Kratos to Help Oversee System Requirements Review for Leidos’ Mayhem Proposal

Concept depiction of Mayhem (AFRL and Leidos)

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. [KTOS] is to help oversee the System Requirements Review for Leidos' [LDOS] Mayhem air-breathing hypersonic aircraft proposal for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Kratos said on Jan. 10. Leidos won a $334 million, 51-month AFRL contract for Mayhem last month and said that the initial task order would be the $24 milllion System Requirements Review/Conceptual Design Review in a digital engineering environment effort (Defense Daily, Dec. 19, 2021). Leidos has said that its…

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