{"id":59512,"date":"2020-06-16T22:29:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T14:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/kratos-to-acquire-cpis-antenna-business\/"},"modified":"2020-06-16T22:29:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T14:29:05","slug":"kratos-to-acquire-cpis-antenna-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/kratos-to-acquire-cpis-antenna-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Kratos to Acquire CPI\u2019s Antenna Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kratos Defense &amp; Security Solutions<\/strong>&nbsp;on Tuesday said it has agreed to acquire the ASC Signal division from <strong>Communications &amp; Power Industries<\/strong> (CPI) for $35 million in cash, a deal that expands its business in the ground segment supporting space-based systems. CPI is required by U.S. anti-trust regulators to divest its ASC Signal antenna business as a condition of its recent acquisition of the former satellite communications technology business of&nbsp;<strong>General Dynamics<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>ASC designs and manufactures antenna systems for satellite communications, radar, electronic warfare and High-Frequency (HF) applications. The division has more than 100 employees. The division includes antenna products used in a variety of mission-critical space applications ranging from Telemetry, Tracking &amp; Command (TT&amp;C) to satellite communications and earth sensing and observation for military and commercial satellites in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO), and Geostationary Orbit (GEO).&nbsp; Kratos said its expanded portfolio that now includes transportable and fixed earth station antennas ranging from 2.4-meter to 18-meter in diameter, radar antennas for air traffic control and weather applications, and lines of HF and specialty antennas, positions the company to meet the needs of the combined Kratos and ASC customer base.<\/p>\n<p>Kratos said its current antenna-related business is focused on full-scale large, complex systems in which antennas are just a part and often involve antennas from different manufacturers. ASC\u2019s antennas will expand Kratos\u2019 business here, particularly with U.S. government and national security customers, Kratos said. Kratos\u2019 space business includes a number of products and solutions across the ground segment.<\/p>\n<p>ASC\u2019s sales, which were not disclosed, are split roughly equal between commercial and U.S. government customers, Phil Carrai, president of Kratos\u2019 Space, Training and Cybersecurity Division said. The government business is largely with the U.S. military but also includes other customers, including the intelligence community, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe addition of ASC provides an important building block for Kratos\u2019 continued growth as the industry\u2019s broadest supplier of advanced products across the ground segment,\u201d Phil Carrai, president of Kratos\u2019 Space, Training and Cybersecurity Division, said in a statement. \u201cBeyond the strong product lines and North American manufacturing base, it brings the ability for us to advance our strategy of building important ground segment technologies directly into antenna\u2019s and better integrating antennas into increasingly virtualized ground systems. In addition, the acquisition brings engineering expertise and a product platform for growing Kratos\u2019 solutions in the Q and V band markets that will become a critical part of the industry\u2019s future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The deal expected to close within 30 days.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was first published by our sister publication Defense Daily.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kratos Defense &amp; Security Solutions&nbsp;on Tuesday said it has agreed to acquire the ASC Signal division from Communications &amp; Power Industries (CPI) for $35 million in cash, a deal that expands its business in the ground segment supporting space-based systems. CPI is required by U.S. anti-trust regulators to divest its ASC Signal antenna business as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59513,"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-59512","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\/59512"}],"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=59512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}