Kraken Kinetics

Kraken Kinetics develops and manufactures kinetic effectors, warheads, safe-and-arm devices and firing systems for unmanned and autonomous weapon platforms. Its customers include defense partners, the U.S. Government and allied nations. Product lines comprise mission-tailored warheads designed to specific requirements, safety and arming mechanisms for kinetic weapon systems, and firing systems for effector and weapon platforms.

The company's leadership team has more than 25 years of combined experience and formed the core of a government program that helped introduce the Department of Defense to kinetic drones. Kraken Kinetics pairs this institutional government knowledge with commercial practice, taking work from concept through development, testing, manufacturing and deployment. Technical domains include kinetic drones and loitering munitions, warhead design and effects engineering, safe-and-arm device engineering, firing systems, requirements analysis, modelling, simulation and testing, and manufacturing and production engineering, supported by proprietary design tools.

Work is organised in cross-functional teams of engineers, operators, manufacturing specialists and defence professionals. The design process is effects-based and bottom-up, with rigorous requirements analysis and repeated modelling and testing, and an emphasis on speed that does not trade away verification. Technical tradeoffs are communicated explicitly, and the emphasis is on practical, production-ready solutions.