A secured U.S. Air Force contract could benefit Clinton-Sherman Airport near Burns Flat. Last week it was announced that Kratos Defense & Security Solutions had secured a contract worth about $37.8 million to provide their Valkyrie aircraft to the U.S. Air Force as part of its Skyborg program. The Valkyrie is an unmanned aerial vehicle that operates much like a fighter aircraft, designed to fly in tandem with a crewed fighter jet. President of Kratos’ unmanned systems division Steve Fendley said the contract award includes three phases of design, integration, and flight testing of the Valkyrie system, integrating multiple customer-defined mission payloads and customer-defined autonomy in coordination and cooperation with the Skyborg System Design Agent company, Leidos.