{"id":125885,"date":"2021-08-05T18:23:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T01:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/kratos-says-secret-off-board-sensing-station-unmanned-aircraft-will-be-transformative"},"modified":"2021-08-05T18:23:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T01:23:29","slug":"kratos-says-secret-off-board-sensing-station-unmanned-aircraft-will-be-transformative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/kratos-says-secret-off-board-sensing-station-unmanned-aircraft-will-be-transformative","title":{"rendered":"Kratos Says Secret \u201cOff-Board Sensing Station\u201d Unmanned Aircraft Will Be Transformative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xkTugpp_H90?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Air Force is looking to field a new type of low-cost yet advanced drone to be used as an \u201cOff-Board Sensing Station,\u201d or OBSS. Details remain very limited, and the few publicly available Air Force Research Laboratory documents on the program state that specifics are only available to approved contractors. Still, according to Kratos, one of the companies involved with the effort, the new unmanned platform could potentially end up being as revolutionary as the firm\u2019s stealthy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/the-war-zone\/41726\/the-first-xq-58a-valkyrie-is-already-headed-to-a-museum\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">XQ-58 Valkyrie<\/a> has been.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks about the OBSS program were made by Eric DeMarco, President and Chief Executive Officer of Kratos Defense &amp; Security Solutions, during a <a href=\"https:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/4444652-kratos-defense-and-security-solutions-inc-ktos-ceo-eric-demarco-on-q2-2021-results-earnings\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">company earnings call<\/a> this week. DeMarco says that if the program is successful, the company believes it \u201ccould ultimately be as significant and transformational to Kratos as we expect Valkyrie to be.\u201d The CEO added that the OBSS program is a signal that \u201cthe total addressable market opportunity for Kratos\u2019 class of tactical drones is rapidly expanding and clarifying, as the Department of Defense strives for affordable force multiplier systems and technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Air Force is looking to field a new type of low-cost yet advanced drone to be used as an \u201cOff-Board Sensing Station,\u201d or OBSS. Details remain very limited, and the few publicly available Air Force Research Laboratory documents on the program state that specifics are only available to approved contractors. Still, according to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}