DARPA To Demonstrate Synthetic Aperture Ladar For Tactical Imaging

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Synthetic LADAR data, observing a truck through foliage in this image that combines information from four separate views.

Baltimore - Feb 10, 2003
Northrop Grumman Corporation's Systems Development and Technology (SD&T) Division has been awarded a contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to design, build and conduct a proof-of-concept airborne demonstration of a synthetic aperture ladar sensor that generates high-resolution two- and three-dimensional imagery.

"SALTI is a strategic win for Northrop Grumman, since it greatly enhances our portfolio of coherent laser technologies," said James F. Carlini, director of Advanced Technology for the SD&T Division.

"Coherent laser systems will enable the warfighter to do extremely high-resolution imaging, identify targets through vibrometry, and provide very wide bandwidth communications throughout the battlespace."

The 27-month SALTI contract, valued at $20 million, will be managed by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Sensors Directorate at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, which is serving as technical and program execution agent for DARPA's Advanced Technology Office.

Key subcontractors on the SALTI program include Coherent-DEOS of Bloomfield, Conn., and Rockwell Scientific of Thousand Oaks, Calif.

The SD&T Division is a component of Northrop Grumman's Baltimore-based Electronic Systems sector, which is a world leader in the design, development, and manufacture of defense and commercial electronics systems.

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EMS Tech Wins Strategic European Military Satellite Order With Alcatel

Atlanta - Jan 10, 2003
EMS Technologies, Inc. has received a contract valued at over $2.5 million from Alcatel Space to supply high- powered, ferrite switch technology for the SAR-Lupe imaging satellite mission.

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