Kratos welcomes senator, U.S. representative to TDI manufacturing facility

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions recently welcomed U.S. Senator Gary Peters and U.S. Representative Lisa McClain to Technical Directions headquartered in Oxford, Michigan, to showcase Kratos’ family of affordable turbine engines and turbogenerators. TDI has developed and refined turbine engine technologies for military applications in Michigan since 1983-providing unique features in support of low-cost, high-production, expendable turbojet engine applications, such as small cruise missiles and other Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. With the engineering, manufacturing, and system integration employees in the Oxford, Michigan facility, TDI’s subject matter experts leverage Michigan’s deep automotive expertise and apply it to the defense sector and have experience that encompasses all aspects of this turbine engine class, from clean-sheet design, through performance testing, vehicle integration, flight testing, and production manufacturing. By making its own internally funded investments that are not tied to any specific customer or budget process, TDI is able to rapidly develop and be first to market with its engines. Senator Peters, a member of the Senate Armed Services and Appropriations Committees, said, “Michigan defense manufacturers excel at producing innovative solutions to our most pressing national security challenges, and Kratos and the TDI team here in Oxford are a key partner in that success. It was great to see firsthand the important work they are doing to build the next-generation of defense technologies that protect our men and women in uniform, and to celebrate this new contract that will support Michigan-made products and jobs.”