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Kratos Defense Self-Driving Trucks are on the Road Across the United States, Increasing Worker Safety and Addressing Workforce Shortfalls
SAN DIEGO, May 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: KTOS) is a Technology Company in the Defense, National Security
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[{"type":"text","content":"SAN DIEGO, May 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: KTOS) is a Technology Company in the Defense, National Security and Global Markets. Today, Kratos has multiple self-driving trucks deployed on the road across the United States supporting new deployment use cases and territories. Kratos deploys self-driving trucks to solve real-world workforce and safety issues of today burdening critical Transportation and Supply Chain operations. Since Kratos first adapted its U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) driverless technologies to commercial markets in 2014, Kratos has continually expanded its driverless solutions and applications to the overall driverless trucking industry. The Kratos strategy for its commercial self-driving truck deployments has been methodically crafted in a progressive manner to capture a market comprised of millions of candidate vehicles. Starting with a driverless system design that is added to existing vehicles rather than only being available in newly purchased pre-configured vehicles, the Kratos technology can be applied to hundreds of millions of existing vehicles. This approach makes the application of driverless trucks achievable to effectively any municipality, organization, or company operating trucks today. Considering safety as the number one priority, Kratos has worked closely with highway authorities and stakeholders at the State and Federal level to coordinate the driverless technology implementation, define Operational Design Domains (ODD), and ensure regulatory and legislative compliance. The Kratos systems are deployed in short-haul Leader Follower Platoons where a human-driven leader truck transmits navigation data to the driverless follower truck traveling closely behind. This short-haul deployment configuration provides a near-term driverless truck solution by avoiding the need to navigate the often complex multi-state legislative environments of long-haul operations. Kratos’ deployment configuration also benefits from using human-in-the-loop decision making to address edge- and corner-case scenarios versus total reliance on new and largely unproven Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning algorithms of independent Autonomous Trucking systems. This strategy has proven successful and is the key enabler for Kratos to deploy a range of self-driving...