Payload Protection and Deployment Systems are the top section of a booster, launch vehicle, payload or missile system, fully designed and built by Karman. ↗
Aerodynamic Interstage Systems are metallic and composite subsystems that improve aerodynamics and enable different modes of interstage separation. ↗
Propulsion Systems cover integrated solid rocket motors, critical subsystems for liquid-fueled rocket motors, launch systems and ablative composites. ↗
Customers
Karman supplies content on missile programs across the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Missile Defense Agency, plus commercial space and NASA-sponsored programs. ↗
Deals since 2020
Jul 202620
Karman Holdings buys Walker Precision Engineering
Backed by Trive Capital
Glasgow, Scotland-based manufacturer of precision engineered components and integrated manufacturing solutions supporting missile seekers, guidance systems and control systems
components and materialsmunitions and missilesSource
$95 millionClosed Aug 28, 2026
Dec 202531
Karman Space & Defense buys Seemann Composites and Materials Sciences
Backed by Trive Capital
Advanced composite and materials solutions for naval programs.
components and materialspropulsionshipbuilding and maritimeSource
$210 millionClosed Feb 3, 2026
Oct 202528
Karman Space & Defense buys Five Axis Industries
Backed by Trive Capital
Business that expands Karman's capabilities in the commercial space industry.
Karman acquired American Automated Engineering, a maker of high-temperature composites, in December 2020. ↗
Karman acquired Systima Technologies in September 2021, a specialist in integrating energetic and mechanical systems into space and hypersonic structures. ↗