Kratos
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Industry & Contracts
Cathie Wood's Ark Invest Piles Into Kratos Defense as Drone and Anti-Drone Budget Bets Pay Off
Ark Invest bought roughly $9.1 million of Kratos Defense stock in early July 2026, betting on a drone maker whose unmanned systems revenue is growing over 30% amid a proposed $70 billion Pentagon drone budget.
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Industry & Contracts
Kratos Adds 100,000+ Square Feet to Oklahoma City Plant to Scale Jet-Drone Output
Kratos is expanding its Oklahoma City campus by more than 100,000 square feet to push jet-drone output beyond 165 units a year, backing Valkyrie, Firejet and Taiwan's Mighty Hornet IV programs.
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Industry & Contracts
Heavy-Lift Cargo Drone Maker Elroy Air to Go Public in $1 Billion SPAC Deal
Elroy Air will list on Nasdaq as ELRY via a merger with Columbus Circle Capital Corp II, valuing the hybrid-electric Chaparral cargo drone maker at roughly $1 billion.
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Industry & Contracts
The Drone-Stock Supercycle: Pentagon Weighs Equity Stakes as DAWG Budget Balloons to $54.6B
U.S. drone stocks extended a sharp run in late June 2026 on reports the Pentagon is weighing equity stakes in domestic makers — the backdrop being a $54.6B FY27 request for the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group, up from a $225M base.
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Industry & Contracts
Airbus and Kratos Unveil U740 Valkyrie at ILA Berlin, Targeting Luftwaffe Service by 2029
Airbus Defence and Space has teamed with Kratos to bring a Europeanized XQ-58A Valkyrie to ILA Berlin as the U740, targeting German Luftwaffe operational use by 2029 — alongside a reveal of the all-European Ravenstorm UCCA concept aimed at the early 2030s.
