Science Applications International Corporation [NYSE: SAI] has delivered its infrared sensor for the Risk Reduction—Alternative Infrared Satellite System (RR-AIRSS) program ahead of schedule. RR-AIRSS is sponsored by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) and executed by the Air Force Research Laboratory‘s Space Vehicles Directorate, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. The program aims to prove that sensors can maintain persistent full-earth surveillance for missile warning. The full-earth infrared surveillance sensor represents advances in large- scale focal planes, field programmable gate arrays, and on-board data processing technologies. The sensor is a significant technological improvement over legacy systems, and is potentially less expensive than the current systems due to advances in technology and the elimination of complex sensor- moving mechanisms—McLean, Virginia
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