Prometheus Energetics, a U.S.-based merchant supplier of solid rocket motors (SRMs) and energetics and a joint venture between Kratos Defense & Security Solutions and RAFAEL Advanced Defense Systems, marked a major milestone with the official groundbreaking of its new solid rocket motor manufacturing campus in Indiana. The ceremony, hosted jointly with the American Center for Manufacturing and Innovation (ACMI), signals the transition of Prometheus from launch phase into full execution of its domestic production strategy. The ceremony was attended by senior government leaders, along with state and local officials, industry partners, and members of the surrounding Indiana community, underscoring the broad national and regional support for the Prometheus campus.

The United States faces a growing gap in solid rocket motor and energetics production, one that represents not only a supply chain challenge, but a national security vulnerability. As demand for advanced munitions increases across multiple domains, restoring trusted, domestic production capacity has become critical to sustaining deterrence and operational readiness. Prometheus was established to directly address this challenge by removing bottlenecks in the U.S. energetics supply chain and delivering scalable production at speed.

Prometheus will serve as the anchor tenant for ACMI's National Security Industrial Hub (NSIH) in Bloomfield, Indiana. Prometheus's planned manufacturing campus will span approximately 600 acres and is designed to support four solid rocket motor production lines, delivering up to 800 tons of domestic energetics manufacturing capacity, with room for future expansion. Leveraging shared infrastructure and a co-located manufacturing ecosystem, the campus is purpose-built to rapidly scale production, strengthen domestic readiness, and restore depth and resiliency to the U.S. defense industrial base.

"Today's groundbreaking represents far more than the start of construction," said Dan Merenda, Chief Operating Officer of Prometheus Energetics. "It marks the moment when a known vulnerability in America's solid rocket motor supply chain begins to be closed. Prometheus was created to operate at production scale, delivering trusted, domestically produced energetics systems to meet urgent and long-term U.S. and allied defense needs. This campus is foundational to ensuring readiness is more than a promise, it is a certainty."

Kratos and RAFAEL have jointly committed up to $175 million in capital to establish Prometheus Energetics and its state-of-the-art manufacturing campus, including property, plant, equipment, workforce development, and technology transfer. Following construction and certification of RAFAEL's combat-proven manufacturing processes, Prometheus is projected to begin SRM production in 2027.

RAFAEL brings decades of vertically integrated energetics expertise and combat-proven technologies supporting systems such as Iron Dome, David's Sling, and other advanced air and missile defense platforms. Kratos contributes extensive U.S. production experience across hypersonics, ballistic missile targets, sub-orbital research vehicles, and solid rocket motors. Together, the partners established Prometheus to function as an independent, merchant supplier capable of supporting multiple programs of record while restoring depth and resiliency to the U.S. munitions supply chain. These combat-proven capabilities ensure that when adapted for U.S. platforms, performance is not aspirational, it is certain.

"The establishment of Prometheus is a strategic step in strengthening the U.S. defense industrial base," said Eric DeMarco, President and CEO of Kratos. "Breaking ground on this campus reflects our shared commitment with RAFAEL to invest our own dollars to rapidly stand up trusted, domestic production capacity that can operate at scale and deliver real products affordably and with speed."

"This groundbreaking advances our strategic partnership with Kratos and will ensure reliable access to advanced, combat-proven energetics for U.S. and allied forces," said CEO and President of Rafael Yoav Tourgeman. "The Prometheus campus represents Rafael's approach to localized and resilient production in response to modern defense requirements."

Prometheus will establish its headquarters and primary production operations on approximately 600 acres of the NSIH site, leveraging the campus ecosystem to accelerate production of critical propulsion systems and expand second-source capacity across major missile programs.

Major construction activities are expected to progress through phased development, with the campus ultimately supporting large-scale SRM and energetics production while creating high-skilled manufacturing jobs in Indiana. Prometheus will continue working closely with ACMI, state and local partners, and federal stakeholders to align the campus buildout with workforce development, infrastructure investment, and national security priorities. In an era of increasingly complex global threats, the Prometheus campus represents a decisive step toward restoring American energetics production at scale bringing speed, resilience, and proven capability back to the U.S. defense industrial base.

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