Perfectly timed with National Engineers Week, a celebration running from February 19-25, 2023, we’re pleased to publish an episode featuring one of Anne Arundel County’s most exciting employers of engineers: Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, a company that “develops and fields transformative, affordable systems, platforms, and products for national security and communications needs.”

We sat down with Josh Peterson, Senior Vice President of Kratos’s Glen Burnie-based Space and Missile Defense Systems division, to discuss:

• What he and his team do, from ballistic missile emulations and high-speed hypersonic testing to supporting the development of an “air-breathing hypersonic weapon system,” and why it’s so important to national security.
• What makes working as an engineer at Kratos specifically, and as an engineer in general, so exciting and fulfilling – and why Peterson says that “If you’re an engineer you can do just about anything.”
• Why Anne Arundel County – aka “the tech hub by the Bay” – is an ideal location for a 42-location company that works with a wide array of business partners and relies on a highly-educated talent pool.
• Why the county is also the perfect place for an outdoorsy person such as himself to live.
• Plus some super-exciting things that he expects Kratos to work on in the future.

We promise this is our only episode with b-roll of a rocket launch (SPOILER ALERT!), so tune in today!