HUNTSVILLE, AL., (January 6, 2025) — KODA Technologies announced today that it has been selected to be a member of the team, led by Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS), awarded a five-year OTA contract for the Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed (MACH-TB) 2.0 under Task Area 1. The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD (R&E)) Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) established MACH-TB to support OUSD’s National Hypersonic Initiative 2.0 by creating an affordable flight test bed to rapidly increase hypersonic flight test capacity. MACH-TB 2.0 will provide an affordable bridge between hypersonic ground tests and system level flight tests. This will reduce overall hypersonic development risks and time and provide rapid transition of innovative hypersonic technologies to the warfighter.
“We are honored to support this critical program, and we look forward to working with Kratos, our other industry partners, and our Navy customer to advance our nation’s hypersonic capability.”
—Julie Schumacher, CEO/President
Kratos was awarded the prime role in Task Area 1 Systems Engineering, Integration, and Testing (SEIT), to include integrated subscale, full-scale, and air launch services to address the need to affordably increase hypersonic flight test cadence. KODA will join the Kratos-led team of subcontractors that will provide systems engineering, assembly, integration, and test (AI&T), mission planning and execution, and launch services. Additional key teammates include Leidos, Rocket Lab, Corvid Technologies, Northwind, JRC, Stratolaunch, CFD Research, PAR Systems, University of Minnesota, and Purdue University among many others.