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Air Force Awards Strategic Illuminator Laser Contracts

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REDONDO BEACH, Calif., May 7 -- The US Air Force has awarded contracts to three companies for the first phase of a three-year program to develop the strategic illuminator laser, or SILL -- a four-kilowatt-class, solid-state pulsed laser. The Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency is providing the funding under a contract managed by the Air Force. Northrop Grumman Corp.'s Space Technology sector, in Redondo Beach, received $499,606; Textron Systems Corp., of Wilmington Mass., $482,982; and General Atomics, of San Diego, $486,026. Under the four-month, Phase I contracts, the companies...Read full article

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    Published: May 2003
    Basic SciencedefenseDepartment of Defense Missile Defense AgencyNews & FeaturesNorthrop Grummanpulsed lasersSILLsolid-state pulsed laserstrategic illuminator laserLasers

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