Kratos Receives $3 Million in Critical Infrastructure Video, Surveillance, Automation and Security System Contract Awards

SAN DIEGO, March 1, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq:KTOS), a leading National Security Solutions provider, announced today that its Public Safety & Security business has recently received $3 million in single award contracts for critical infrastructure video, surveillance, security and building automation system deployments. Under the contract awards, Kratos' PSS business will design, engineer, install, integrate and maintain specialized security and building automation systems at three distinct critical infrastructure locations. Due to customer specific and certain other considerations, no additional information is being provided regarding these security system contract awards, deployments, or locations.

Ben Goodwin, President of Kratos' Public Safety & Security Division, said, "We are deeply honored to have been selected to deploy these mission critical public safety and security systems at these three unique and distinct customer sites. We believe that Kratos' PSS business continues to be recognized as a leader in the engineering, integration and management of highly specialized security and surveillance systems which include leading edge technologies and security elements for the protection of America's most important and strategic assets."

About Kratos Defense & Security Solutions

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq:KTOS) is a specialized National Security technology business providing mission critical products, services and solutions for United States National Security priorities.  Kratos' core capabilities are sophisticated engineering, manufacturing and system integration offerings for National Security platforms and programs. Kratos' areas of expertise include Command, Control, Communications, Computing, Combat Systems, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR), satellite communication systems, unmanned systems, cyber warfare, cyber security, information assurance, critical infrastructure security and weapons systems sustainment.  Kratos has primarily an engineering and technical oriented work force of approximately 4,000, many of whom hold an active National Security clearance, including Secret, Top Secret and higher.  The vast majority of Kratos' work is performed on a military base, in a secure facility or at a critical infrastructure location.  Kratos' primary end customers are United States Federal Government agencies, including the Department of Defense, classified agencies, intelligence agencies and Homeland Security related agencies.  News and information are available at www.KratosDefense.com.

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