Raytheon Wins Imaging LADAR Transceiver Contract

Raytheon Company has won a $10 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the research and development of the long range imaging LADAR (LRIL) transceiver. 

The LRIL will demonstrate the state-of-the-art in inverse synthetic aperture LADAR (ISAL) technology with the objective of producing an ISAL image from a space object in geosynchronous orbit.

Work is expected to be complete by Sept. 28, 2018.

The LRIL program comprises four phases. Phase I is a laboratory demonstration of ISAL components and techniques at the Maui Space Surveillance Site (MSSS). The purpose of Phase I is to complete program detailed planning, produce and validate modeling and simulation results, begin integration of hardware, and produce ISAL imagery in the laboratory.

Phase II is a low-power demonstration of ISAL on a space object in middle earth orbit and/or geosynchronous orbit.

Phase III is a demonstration of ISAL at MSSS advancing Phase II with the addition of an adaptive optics atmospheric compensation system.

During Phase IV a high power laser illuminator shall be integrated at MSSS, and ISAL images will be collected from non-optically-augmented geosynchronous objects.