Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (KTOS)

Defense drones, electronics and services, 4,300. Read October 20, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 28, 2025, filed February 23, 2026. Ranked 144 of the 222 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states 4,300 employees in an engineering-oriented workforce making drones, rocket systems and electronics and providing services, with nothing counted by segment, so the split is by description.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 18% now, 39% at the end of 2027, 50% at the end of 2028, 55% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 55% desk work, 14% people work and 31% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 42% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 48% becomes checking a model's work and 5% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

4,300 employees as of December 28, 2025 (stated). The filing counts no employees by country; the United States is 79% of revenue.

The filing: “As of December 28, 2025, we had a work force of approximately 4,300 full-time, part-time and on-call employees in approximately 14 countries.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: About 4,300 full-time, part-time and on-call employees in about 14 countries, primarily engineering and technically oriented; the headcount rose from 3,200 in 2020.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Boeing (BA, 182,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
• RTX (RTX, 180,000 employees)17% now, 45% by 2028
• Lockheed Martin (LMT, 123,000 employees)17% now, 48% by 2028
• Honeywell International Inc. (HON, 101,000 employees)18% now, 46% by 2028
• Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC, 95,000 employees)17% now, 47% by 2028
• GE Aerospace (GE, 57,000 employees)17% now, 46% by 2028
• Textron Inc. (TXT, 34,000 employees)16% now, 42% by 2028
• Howmet Aerospace Inc. (HWM, 25,430 employees)18% now, 41% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

7 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names autonomy and AI for unmanned systems among the national security priorities it pursues and the funding it expects for them.

• “Government including those outlined in the 2022 National Defense Strategy document: Unmanned aerial drones, unmanned ground and unmanned seaborne systems and related autonomy and artificial intelligence.”
• “The Trump Administration, the Secretary of War and other Trump Administration leadership have indicated their support and the potential for increased future funding for unmanned aerial drone systems and related autonomy and artificial intelligence systems.”
• “We are also aggressively pursuing several National Security priority areas, including high performance UCAVs or CCAs, satellite communications command, control, communication and signal monitoring products and offerings, space domain awareness ("SDA"), microwave electronics for missiles, radars, electronic warfare and communications, cybersecurity solutions, propulsion and engine systems, speci...”
• “Government contractors, newer defense technology companies including Anduril, XBow, Shield AI, Castelion, Ursa Major, Bee Hive, and others, and system integrators such as Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Raytheon Technologies, BAE Systems, L3Harris, General Atomics, and Boeing.”
• “Our success in competing depends, in part, on our ability to remain price- and cost-competitive, respond to changes in customer acquisition strategies and preferences, accurately anticipate our customers' needs, successfully effect our digital transformation strategy and identify, adopt and integrate new digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, into our manufacturing, operations...”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20213median 0
• Fiscal 20224median 0
• Fiscal 20234median 1
• Fiscal 20245median 4
• Fiscal 20257median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The count includes part-time and on-call employees the filing does not count apart.
• No count by segment; the split between aerospace products, electronics and services is by description.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001069258-26-000013, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.