# Kraus Hamdani Aerospace: robotics company

Canonical ID: `d7473f3b-a8be-4cb5-83af-3b8deca86124`

## Key facts

- **CEO:** Fatema Hamdani (CEO & Co-Founder — Inc. 2025 Female Founders 500)
- **HQ:** California, USA
- **Founded:** ~2017
- **Product:** K1000ULE — solar-powered, ultra-long-range VTOL UAS for ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance)
- **AFCENT contract:** $270M single-source IDIQ contract from US Air Forces Central (AFCENT) — accelerate K1000ULE deployment (April 2026)
- **US Army:** $20M Army purchase of solar drones after limited operational use
- **US Navy/USMC:** Navy PMA 263 contract for K1000ULE — first electric VTOL UAS for USMC
- **Technology:** Solar-electric propulsion — ultra-long endurance, laser power beaming research
- **Incidents:** None found — audited

- **Slug:** kraus-hamdani-aerospace
- **Founded:** 2017
- **HQ:** California, USA

## Models

- [K1000ULE](/models/kha-k1000ule.md) (aerial) (id: `86236f09-4b50-4849-87e7-4506742d1a3a`)

## Supplies to

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## Common questions

### What is Kraus Hamdani Aerospace?

American aerospace company developing solar-powered long-endurance UAS. K1000ULE is a solar-electric VTOL drone for ISR missions. Won $270M AFCENT contract. CEO named to Inc. Female Founders 500.

### What does Kraus Hamdani Aerospace make?

Kraus Hamdani Aerospace has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: K1000ULE (Kraus Hamdani Aerospace builds physical robots).

### Where is Kraus Hamdani Aerospace headquartered?

Kraus Hamdani Aerospace is headquartered in California, USA.

### Where does Kraus Hamdani Aerospace operate robots?

Kraus Hamdani Aerospace is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.

### Is Kraus Hamdani Aerospace a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Kraus Hamdani Aerospace ranks in roughly the top 100% of companies tracked by the registry.

### When was Kraus Hamdani Aerospace founded?

Kraus Hamdani Aerospace was founded in 2017.


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