The ceremony was hosted jointly with the American Center for Manufacturing and Innovation and attended by senior government leaders, state and local officials, industry partners, and members of the surrounding Indiana community. Their presence highlighted broad national and regional support for the new campus.
Prometheus Energetics is a U.S.-based merchant supplier of solid rocket motors and energetics and a joint venture between Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. and RAFAEL Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.. The company was established to address growing gaps in U.S. solid rocket motor and energetics production that have been identified as both a supply chain challenge and a national security vulnerability.
As demand for advanced munitions increases across multiple domains, restoring trusted domestic production capacity has become critical to sustaining deterrence and operational readiness. Prometheus was created to remove bottlenecks in the U.S. energetics supply chain and deliver scalable production at speed.
The new campus will serve as the anchor tenant for the National Security Industrial Hub in Bloomfield, Indiana. The planned site will span approximately 600 acres and is designed to support four solid rocket motor production lines, delivering up to 800 tons of domestic energetics manufacturing capacity, with room for future expansion.
By leveraging shared infrastructure and a co-located manufacturing ecosystem, the campus is designed to rapidly scale production and strengthen domestic readiness. The project aims to restore depth and resiliency to the U.S. defense industrial base.
“Today’s groundbreaking represents far more than the start of construction,” said Dan Merenda, Chief Operating Officer of Prometheus Energetics. “It marks the moment when a known vulnerability in America’s solid rocket motor supply chain begins to be closed. Prometheus was created to operate at production scale, delivering trusted, domestically produced energetics systems to meet urgent and long-term U.S. and allied defense needs. This campus is foundational to ensuring readiness is more than a promise, it is a certainty.”
Kratos and RAFAEL have jointly committed up to $175 million in capital to establish Prometheus Energetics and its manufacturing campus, including investments in property, equipment, workforce development, and technology transfer. Following construction and certification of RAFAEL’s manufacturing processes, the company expects to begin solid rocket motor production in 2027.
RAFAEL brings decades of vertically integrated energetics expertise and technologies supporting systems such as Iron Dome and David’s Sling. Kratos contributes U.S. production experience across hypersonics, ballistic missile targets, sub-orbital research vehicles, and solid rocket motors.
Together, the partners formed Prometheus as an independent merchant supplier capable of supporting multiple programs of record while strengthening the U.S. munitions supply chain. The companies state that these combat-proven capabilities, when adapted for U.S. platforms, provide assured performance.
“The establishment of Prometheus is a strategic step in strengthening the U.S. defense industrial base,” said Eric DeMarco, President and CEO of Kratos. “Breaking ground on this campus reflects our shared commitment with RAFAEL to invest our own dollars to rapidly stand up trusted, domestic production capacity that can operate at scale and deliver real products affordably and with speed.”
“This groundbreaking advances our strategic partnership with Kratos and will ensure reliable access to advanced, combat-proven energetics for U.S. and allied forces,” said Yoav Tourgeman, CEO and President of RAFAEL. “The Prometheus campus represents Rafael’s approach to localized and resilient production in response to modern defense requirements.”
Prometheus will establish its headquarters and primary production operations on approximately 600 acres of the hub site in Bloomfield. Major construction activities are expected to proceed in phases, ultimately supporting large-scale solid rocket motor and energetics production while creating high-skilled manufacturing jobs in Indiana.
The company said it will continue working with state and local partners and federal stakeholders to align campus development with workforce and infrastructure priorities. Prometheus describes the project as a decisive step toward restoring American energetics production at scale and strengthening the nation’s defense industrial base.
