Leidos acquires Kudu Dynamics to advance AI capabilities

Leidos has announced that it has acquired Kudu Dynamics, accelerating Leidos’ rapid scaling of AI enabled cyber capabilities for defence, intelligence and homeland security customers.

Leidos

Leidos’ extensive current AI-enabled cyber offerings arm users with the rapid capability and scale needed to:

• Automate vulnerability detection
• Enhance novel defenses
• Neutralise attacker advantages
• Evade adversary defences

According to the company, acquiring Kudu Dynamics will accelerate Leidos’ strategy for AI-enabled offensive cyber, electromagnetic spectrum operations and vulnerability research. 

Kudu Dynamics

Founded in 2013, Kudu Dynamics has rapidly grown its work across the Department of Defense, leading the industry in automated targeting, scalable hardware reverse engineering and the generation of other non-kinetic effects.

“Perfectly complements our strategy”

Tom Bell, Chief Executive Officer, Leidos commented: “Kudu’s ability to generate new cyber capabilities with AI perfectly complements our strategy to rapidly grow differentiated offensive cyber technology capabilities.

“This acquisition underlines Leidos’s commitment to continue to build smarter full-spectrum cyber capabilities, so that the US and its allies dominate the cyber warfighting domain,” Bell concluded.

“A partner who shares our ethic”

Mike Frantzen, Founder and CEO, Kudu Dynamics stated: “We’re excited to deliver the next level of capabilities to our customers as we bring together the highly innovative cyber professionals and disruptive technologies of Kudu with the scale, resources and experience of Leidos.

“In Leidos, we’ve found a partner who shares our ethic of purposeful innovation in support of our nation’s most critical missions,” Frantzen added.

The acquisition

Leidos highlights that Kudu Dynamics purchase was its first acquisition in two and a half years.

Increasing investment in the company’s cyber capabilities is among the five strategic growth pillars of its new NorthStar 2030 strategy, developed through a year of deep strategic thinking in 2024. 

The company states that the cost of the acquisition was $300 million and was closed on 23 May 2025.