diff --git a/external/kafka-assembly/pom.xml b/external/kafka-assembly/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..503fc129dc4f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/external/kafka-assembly/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+  ~ The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  ~
+  ~    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  ~
+  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  ~ limitations under the License.
+  -->
+
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+    <artifactId>spark-parent</artifactId>
+    <version>1.3.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
+  </parent>
+
+  <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+  <artifactId>spark-streaming-kafka-assembly_2.10</artifactId>
+  <packaging>jar</packaging>
+  <name>Spark Project External Kafka Assembly</name>
+  <url>http://spark.apache.org/</url>
+
+  <properties>
+    <sbt.project.name>streaming-kafka-assembly</sbt.project.name>
+    <spark.jar.dir>scala-${scala.binary.version}</spark.jar.dir>
+    <spark.jar.basename>spark-streaming-kafka-assembly-${project.version}.jar</spark.jar.basename>
+    <spark.jar>${project.build.directory}/${spark.jar.dir}/${spark.jar.basename}</spark.jar>
+  </properties>
+
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spark-streaming-kafka_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <version>${project.version}</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spark-streaming_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <version>${project.version}</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+
+  <build>
+  <outputDirectory>target/scala-${scala.binary.version}/classes</outputDirectory>
+  <testOutputDirectory>target/scala-${scala.binary.version}/test-classes</testOutputDirectory>
+  <plugins>
+    <plugin>
+      <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+      <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
+      <configuration>
+        <shadedArtifactAttached>false</shadedArtifactAttached>
+        <outputFile>${spark.jar}</outputFile>
+        <artifactSet>
+          <includes>
+            <include>*:*</include>
+          </includes>
+        </artifactSet>
+        <filters>
+          <filter>
+            <artifact>*:*</artifact>
+            <excludes>
+              <exclude>META-INF/*.SF</exclude>
+              <exclude>META-INF/*.DSA</exclude>
+              <exclude>META-INF/*.RSA</exclude>
+            </excludes>
+          </filter>
+        </filters>
+      </configuration>
+      <executions>
+        <execution>
+          <phase>package</phase>
+          <goals>
+            <goal>shade</goal>
+          </goals>
+          <configuration>
+            <transformers>
+              <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ServicesResourceTransformer"/>
+              <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.AppendingTransformer">
+                <resource>reference.conf</resource>
+              </transformer>
+              <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.DontIncludeResourceTransformer">
+                <resource>log4j.properties</resource>
+              </transformer>
+              <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ApacheLicenseResourceTransformer"/>
+              <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ApacheNoticeResourceTransformer"/>
+            </transformers>
+          </configuration>
+        </execution>
+      </executions>
+    </plugin>
+  </plugins>
+</build>
+</project>
+
diff --git a/make-distribution.sh b/make-distribution.sh
index 45c99e42e5a5b..dd00cca4428b8 100755
--- a/make-distribution.sh
+++ b/make-distribution.sh
@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ echo "Spark $VERSION$GITREVSTRING built for Hadoop $SPARK_HADOOP_VERSION" > "$DI
 # Copy jars
 cp "$FWDIR"/assembly/target/scala*/*assembly*hadoop*.jar "$DISTDIR/lib/"
 cp "$FWDIR"/examples/target/scala*/spark-examples*.jar "$DISTDIR/lib/"
+cp "$FWDIR"/external/kafka/scala*/*kafka*assembly*.jar "$DISTDIR/lib/"
 # This will fail if the -Pyarn profile is not provided
 # In this case, silence the error and ignore the return code of this command
 cp "$FWDIR"/network/yarn/target/scala*/spark-*-yarn-shuffle.jar "$DISTDIR/lib/" &> /dev/null || :
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 9e6fe09d95bbe..95950bf0b2a97 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1422,6 +1422,7 @@
       </properties>
       <modules>
         <module>external/kafka</module>
+        <module>external/kafka-assembly</module>
       </modules>
     </profile>
 
diff --git a/project/SparkBuild.scala b/project/SparkBuild.scala
index ff8cf81b286af..d679b126fd047 100644
--- a/project/SparkBuild.scala
+++ b/project/SparkBuild.scala
@@ -42,8 +42,9 @@ object BuildCommons {
     sparkKinesisAsl) = Seq("yarn", "yarn-stable", "java8-tests", "ganglia-lgpl",
     "kinesis-asl").map(ProjectRef(buildLocation, _))
 
-  val assemblyProjects@Seq(assembly, examples, networkYarn) =
-    Seq("assembly", "examples", "network-yarn").map(ProjectRef(buildLocation, _))
+  val assemblyProjects@Seq(assembly, examples, networkYarn, streamingKafkaAssembly) =
+    Seq("assembly", "examples", "network-yarn", "streaming-kafka-assembly")
+      .map(ProjectRef(buildLocation, _))
 
   val tools = ProjectRef(buildLocation, "tools")
   // Root project.
@@ -298,6 +299,9 @@ object Assembly {
       if (mName.contains("network-yarn")) {
         // This must match the same name used in maven (see network/yarn/pom.xml)
         "spark-" + v + "-yarn-shuffle.jar"
+      } else if (mName.contains("streaming-kafka-assembly")) {
+        // This must match the same name used in maven (see external/kafka-assembly/pom.xml)
+        mName + "-" + v + ".jar"
       } else {
         mName + "-" + v + "-hadoop" +
           Option(System.getProperty("hadoop.version")).getOrElse("1.0.4") + ".jar"