For the purpose of designing and demonstrating the synthetic aperture ladar tactical imager, Raytheon Co.'s Space and Airborne Systems, based in El Segundo, Calif., was awarded an $8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Advanced Technology Office. This imager for manned and unmanned airborne platforms will be designed to improve clarity of electro-optic wavelengths for imaging targets, partly by eliminating the glint associated with X-band synthetic aperture radar.