{"id":48102,"date":"2025-11-05T21:14:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T13:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/kratos-buys-israeli-satellite-systems-company-orbit-technologies-in-356m-cash-deal\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T21:14:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T13:14:26","slug":"kratos-buys-israeli-satellite-systems-company-orbit-technologies-in-356m-cash-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/kratos-buys-israeli-satellite-systems-company-orbit-technologies-in-356m-cash-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Kratos Buys Israeli Satellite Systems Company Orbit Technologies in $356M Cash Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kratos Defense &amp; Security Solutions<\/strong> will acquire Israeli satellite mobile systems company <strong>Orbit Technologies<\/strong> for $356.3 million in cash, the companies announced Wednesday. Orbit will be integrated with Kratos\u2019 Microwave Electronics Division (KMED), headquartered in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>Orbit\u2019s core business, which encompasses hardware, products and systems for military unmanned aerial, seaborne, undersea and land vehicles, as well as systems for traditional prime contractors, fits with Kratos\u2019 push to scale up its global business. Once the acquisition is completed, Kratos will gain access to Orbit\u2019s customer portfolio in Israel, the United States, Europe, and the Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p>Kratos expects the acquisition to close by the end of March 2026, assuming completion of regulatory matters related to an acquisition of an Israel-based national security company by a non-Israel based company.<\/p>\n<p>Kratos President and CEO Eric DeMarco mentioned how well the two companies business and culture profiles fit in comments about the acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCustomers of Orbit are also existing customers of Kratos, including in Israel, the United States, Europe, India and elsewhere, adding to our conviction in this transaction\u2019s projected success for all parties involved, including Kratos shareholders,\u201d DeMarco said. \u201cThe combination of Kratos\u2019 microwave technology and Orbit\u2019s communications technology is expected to provide new growth opportunities that are not currently available to either company on a stand-alone basis. There is a global recapitalization of weapon systems underway, and Orbit significantly advances Kratos\u2019 position to take advantage of this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kratos Defense &amp; Security Solutions will acquire Israeli satellite mobile systems company Orbit Technologies for $356.3 million in cash, the companies announced Wednesday. Orbit will be integrated with Kratos\u2019 Microwave Electronics Division (KMED), headquartered in Jerusalem. Orbit\u2019s core business, which encompasses hardware, products and systems for military unmanned aerial, seaborne, undersea and land vehicles, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}