Kratos Defense & Security Solutions finished its $50 million Indiana Payload Integration Facility (IPIF) ahead of schedule.

The 68,000-square-foot complex sits in Crane, Indiana, near the Naval Surface Warfare Center.

The facility supports the advanced manufacturing, integration, and testing of experimental hypersonic payloads.

The site can prepare up to six experimental payloads simultaneously to accelerate next-generation weapons development.

This expansion will create over 100 high-tech jobs as part of Kratos’s hypersonic growth strategy.