Programs A–Z

	Air Quality Studies SDL's comprehensive air quality monitoring system, Aglite, is a cost-effective, vehicle-portable, rugged remote sensing system designed to help agricultural operation owners maintain their operations within the regulatory standards for pollution.
	AIM – SOFIE Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere – Solar Occultation for Ice Experiment AIM's purpose is to determine the causes of the highest altitude clouds (Polar Mesospheric Clouds) in the Earth's atmosphere.
	ARCH Advanced Reconnaissance Compression Hardware Developing the next generation, near real-time image compression hardware solution and standards for the Navy.
	ARSS Autonomous Rotorcraft Sniper System The Precision Weapons Platform (PWP) is a lightweight turret that SDL created for the U.S. Army’s Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (AATD) as part of the Autonomous Rotorcraft Sniper System (ARSS).
	ASTEC Advanced Space Technologies and Emerging Concepts A study to determine the feasibility issues and costs associated with the development and manufacturing of 100 servicing satellites.
	BEPoP Brilliant Eyes Proof of Principle Designed, built, and calibrated by SDL, the BEPoP sensor incorporates an imaging radiometer with three focal planes for collecting measurements at visible, LWIR, and VLWIR wavelengths.
	Bowshock I and II Funded by MDA to provide the predictive capability to design and deploy effective sensor systems for target acquisition and tracking in future atmospheric interceptor systems. TOP
	CIRRIS IA Cryogenic Infrared Radiance Instrumentation for Shuttle This SDL-developed infrared telescope contained a high resolution Michelson interferometer-spectrometer and a dual channel radiometer.
	CMRTR Cruise Missile Real-Time Retargeting Working with the Naval Air Warfare Center, SDL is developing LADAR system simulation software for the CMRTR Program.
	CODA Coupling of Dynamics and Aurora Successfully launched 21 February 2002, CODA was designed to study the thin upper atmospheric region that is too high for airplanes and balloons but too low for satellites.
	DCGS Distributed Common Ground System The DoD’s Distributed Common Ground Station (DCGS) is a family of fixed and deployable ground processing systems that support the real-time collection, analysis and dissemination of intelligence and imagery from manned and unmanned reconnaissance sources.
	DEBI Dual-mode Experiment on Bowshock Interactions. DEBI launched successfully on 10 June 2003. The data captured by DEBI will be used to further research on UV> and IR bowshock interactions.
	DICE Dynamic Ionosphere CubeSat Experiment DICE will map geomagnetic Storm Enhanced Density (SED) plasma bulge and plume formations in Earth’s ionosphere.
	DITP Discriminating Interceptor Technology Program SDL supported DITP with flight cryostat assembly and housekeeping and control electronics. TOP
	DUSTER Deployable UAV System for Targeting, Exploitation, and Reconnaissance SDL is developing the next generation of exploitation for these UAV-borne sensors. DUSTER will allow a soldier to sit at a safe terminal to collect and analyze data streams from various sensors deployed on multiple UAVs in near real-time.
	E-Winds SDL is developing the next generation of exploitation for these UAV-borne sensors. DUSTER will allow a soldier to sit at a safe terminal to collect and analyze data streams from various sensors deployed on multiple UAVs in near real-time.
	Eddy Launched in 1998, SDL designed, built and calibrated Eddy to study invisible turbulence using variety of sensors.
	E-MAS Enhanced MODIS Airborne Simulator SDL is providing a cooled optical bench assembly (COB) to enhance the MODIS Airborne Simulator (MAS), a wide-band, multispectral, whiskbroom scanner operated by the NASA Airborne Sensor Facility for Earth-observing campaigns aboard high-altitude NASA platforms.
	EXCEDE III Excitation via Controlled Energy Deposition Experiment Designed by SDL to determine reactions and measure infrared radiance produced in the upper atmosphere by controlled dosing.
	F-16 Re-Engineering and Depot Assist Working with Air Force 309th Maintenance Wing, SDL is re-engineering the video display unit for the F-16 aircraft.
	FAISAT SDL delivered a hardware in-the-loop emulator for the attitude determination and control system and provided instrumentation, fabrication, integration and testing for FAISAT 1 and 2. TOP
	FEATHAR Fusion, Exploitation, Algorithm, Targeting High‐Altitude Reconnaissance The FEATHAR program develops enhanced integrated multi‐intelligence sensor systems and fusion processing algorithms (e.g. high resolution visible/infrared, hyperspectral, synthetic aperture radar, etc.) for multiple‐networked ISR platforms to identify, geo‐locate, and track enemy targets.
	FIRST Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Troposphere FIRST is a long wave imaging interferometer that will measure between 10-100 microns, filling a gap in the existing system that monitors the Earth’s climate.
	FISTA Flying Infrared Signatures Technology Aircraft FISTA is an NKC-135A specially modified to fly infrared sensors and collect data during flight.
	FISTA II Flying Infrared Signatures Technology Aircraft A follow-on to SDL’s work on infrared signatures, FISTA II focuses on missile and rocket plume signatures for MDA.
	FPMU Floating Potential Measurement Unit FPMU will be used to monitor ISS charging so that steps can be taken to provide a safer environment for the astronauts during Extra Vehicular Activities.
	GEMS Gas Exchange Measurement System GEMS is designed to measure the respiration of plants that are being grown in a small greenhouse on the Russian Mir Space Station. The 25-year experiment demonstrated that serial plant propagation in space is possible.
	GIFTS Geosynchronous Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer The completion and calibration of the GIFTS engineering development unit has the potential to greatly reduce risk for the HES program. TOP
	HICO Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean SDL is participating in the development of two hyperspectral imagers for the Navy.
	HIP Hyperspectral Imaging Polarimeter The pathfinder sensor investigates the infrared characteristics of sun-glint from high altitude clouds in order to research techniques to reduce the high incidence of false missile-launch indications from US early-warning satellites.
	IBSS Infrared Background Signature Survey The IBSS sensor consisted of a high-off-axis rejection telescope, a spatial radiometer, and an Ebert-Fastie grating spectrometer.
	ICON Ice Content and Odd-Oxygen in Noctilucent Clouds ICON is a NASA-sponsored program to determine the clouds' composition by measuring their IR and UV radiation and absorption characteristics.
	JWST Heat Switch James Webb Space Telescope SDL designed and demonstrated an advanced thermal switch for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
	JWST Thermal Links James Webb Space Telescope These low-mass links, fabricated from high purity aluminum foils, maximize thermal conductance in their cryogenic operating conditions, minimize mechanical interaction, and provide dynamic flexibility as they transport heat from JWST’s science instruments to their radiators, enabling each instrument to operate at desired temperatures.
	Lada Named for the ancient Russian goddess of spring Launched on board a Russian Soyuz rocket on 25 September 2002, Lada is a vegetation chamber created to provide a kind of space garden for astronauts and cosmonauts during their long expeditions onboard the International Space Station. TOP
	Mars Balloon Working with JPL in designing, fabricating, integrating and flying prototype Mars balloons, SDL's deliverables included balloon storage and deployment containers, pyrotechnic systems, and a large number of control gondolas.
	METEORS MEsosphere-Thermosphere Emissions for Ozone Remote Sensing A NASA/LaRC sounding rocket program, the main instruments provided by SDL included a 9.6 µm CVF spectrometer, a 2-channel near-IR WIRR, and an atomic oxygen resonance-fluorescence/absorption experiment.
	MSTI-3 Miniature Sensor Technology Integration SDL conducted spatial and radiometric calibrations on the sensor and used interferometric techniques to characterize the sensor spectral response down to 1x10^-7 of the in-band transmission.
	NAVIS Navy Input Station A state-of-the-art, real-time reconnaissance imagery receiver and display system.
	NPOESS National Polar‐orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System SDL is a long‐standing member of the government team for the National Polar‐orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS).
	NSN Naval Research Laboratory Sensor Node NSN is designed to provide distributed screening of real-time, near real-time, and archived data from the latest electro-optical, infrared, multi-spectral, and radar sensors.
	OCO Orbiting Carbon Observatory As a subcontractor for Hamilton Sundstrand Sensor Systems, SDL is developing the cryogenic subsystem for the OCO instrument. TOP
	ORZS Optimization of Root Zone Substrates ORZS is a cooperative program with the Russian IBMP and USU’s Soil Physics group. The ORZS program objective is to optimize the plant growth rooting environment.
	OSIRIS REx Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer OSIRIS REx is a NASA New Frontiers mission to return a sample of an asteroid to the Earth. SDL is designing, building, and testing the detector electronics assemblies for the three OSIRIS-REx Camera Suite (OCAM) instruments.
	ProSEDS Propulsive Small Expendable Deployer System A tether-based propulsion experiment that dissipates power to the space environment around the Earth, allowing the transfer of spacecraft orbital kinetic energy to heat.
	PWP – TowerHawk The Precision Weapons Platform (PWP) is a lightweight turret that SDL created for the U.S. Army’s Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (AATD) as part of the Autonomous Rotorcraft Sniper System (ARSS).
	RAMOS Russian American Observational Satellites An international cooperative program with the Russian Federation, RAMOS is a two-satellite constellation that will operate in approximately the same plane and altitude of around 500 kilometers.
	SABER Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry SABER, a 10-channel infrared (1.27 to 16.9 µm) radiometer, launched successfully on 7 December 2001 and is one of four instruments on NASA's TIMED mission.
	SAL Sporadic Atom Layers SAL's mission was to investigate the phenomenon of sporadic sodium layers (NaS), thin (1 km) layers of neutral atomic metal which form in the Earth's mesosphere at altitudes near 95 km.
	SBIRS High Space Based Infrared System SBIRS High is a two-tier remote sensing satellite system that will work with other US defense systems to provide global below- and above-the-horizon detection as well as tracking and discrimination of missiles in their boost, post-boost, midcourse and reentry phases of flight.
	SBIRS Low Space Based Infrared System SBIRS Low will be part of the next generation early warning system, providing missile warning, missile defense, battlespace characterization, and technical intelligence. TOP
	SHARC Squadron Hi‐Vis Advanced Reconnaissance Computer Working in conjunction with the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), SDL developed the SHARC ground station for use in aircrew training, mission results validation, target verification, and on‐site maintenance assistance.
	SHARP Shared Reconnaissance Pod SHARP is a multi-functioned reconnaissance pod, adaptable to several airborne platforms for tactical manned airborne reconnaissance.
	Skipper An international program funded by MDA to produce an atmospheric research satellite.
	SPAS III SPAS III was to be a telescoped, infrared imager featuring two complex focal plane arrays, a 256 x 256 InSb detector operating in the SWIR and MWIR, and a 128 x 128 HgCdTe detector operating in the LWIR.
	SPEAR III Space Power Experiments Aboard Rockets The mission investigated different methods of grounding spacecraft to LEO plasma and obtained quantitative data on different charging effects observed on spacecraft in LEO.
	SPIRIT III Spatial Infrared Imaging Telescope SPIRIT III is a long-wave infrared instrumentation package primarily consisting of a high spatial resolution radiometer, a high spectral resolution interferometer-spectrometer, and an extremely high-off-axis-rejection telescope.
	TARPS-CD Tactical Air-borne Reconnaissance Pod System - Completely Digital SDL integrated digital imagery with real-time digital recording, data link transmission and display to provide the capabilities for processing, displaying, and manipulating tactical reconnaissance imagery received in real-time from CDL or from tape. TOP
	TARS MVE Theater Airborne Reconnaissance System Mission Verification Equipment Working in conjunction with the US Air Force, SDL developed the TARS MVE ground station for use in aircrew training, mission results validation, target verification, and on-site maintenance assistance.
	TES‐FPOMA Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer‐Focal Plane Opto‐Mechanical Assembly TES is a high-resolution infrared imaging Fourier transform spectrometer that will measure the state of the Earth’s lower atmosphere.
	TIS-SPE Tactical Input Segment Screener Processor Element SDL developed the hardware and software for the SPE portion of the TIS, a ground station designed to receive, process, and screen tactical imagery.
	Viper Dart An initiative to develop a small inexpensive suborbital payload that can be used to probe the Earth's upper atmosphere.
	VPU Vegetable Production Unit The VPU program conducts plant experiments in Lada, the SDL‐designed plant growth chamber that resides on the ISS.
	WIRE Wide-field Infrared Explorer WIRE is a solid-hydrogen cooled imaging telescope designed for the major measurement goal of studying starburst galaxy evolution.
	WISE Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer WISE, a cryogenically-cooled infrared telescope, is intended to provide a complete stellar infrared map more than 1,000 times more detailed than previous surveys. TOP