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.
