secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     KRATOS DEFENSE & SECURITY SOLUTIONS, INC. (KTOS)
CIK:        0001069258
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-03-25T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001069258-26-000034
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.50
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Kratos appoints former Dynetics CEO David King to board effective March 23
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- David King, 64, appointed to Kratos board and Audit Committee; Hoglund steps down from Audit Committee but remains Chairman.
- King was CEO of Dynetics (2015–2020), growing revenue from $180M to $650M before $1.65B sale to Leidos.
- Earlier served as Director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, leading a $2.8B annual budget organization.
- King brings experience in unmanned systems, hypersonics, solid rocket motors, and scaling defense production.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1069258/000106925826000034/0001069258-26-000034-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1069258/000106925826000034/ktos-20260319.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001069258-26-000034

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