Tactical Eyes for the Warfighter
Actionable Intelligence for the Decision Maker
All Weather, Persistent, Optical Like
Real-time, High-Resolution, On-Board Processing
Multi-Mode, Multi-Platform, Day and Night
Solving Next-Generation Radar Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR) Problems
Sandia National Laboratories’ Radar Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems enable a new product paradigm in radar capabilities and modalities. Since the late 20th century, Sandia’s mission remains dedicated to producing the next generation of exquisite and attritable radars with the ability to shrink sensor size, increase resolution, perform exploitation, improve image quality, and advance real–time on–board processing. Sandia specializes in the full-system design of exquisite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Ground Moving Target Indicator (GMTI), target recognition, and other sensor systems for the Department of Defense, Other Government Agencies, and industry partners.
Since the mid 1980s, Sandia radars continue to address critical military problems in all geographic Unified Combatant Commands (COCOMs). Sandia delivers complete solutions, including mission planning and Concept of Operations (CONOPS) development, hardware development, algorithm development, platform integration and Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (PED). Sandia’s high impact, multimode SAR and GMTI systems are reconfigurable for multiple missions and designed for newer “plug and play” systems. As a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), Sandia is committed to developing and deploying next generation pathfinder solutions to ensure the safety and security of our nation for generations to come.
Areas of Expertise
Sandia’s ISR capabilities include everything from mission planning to system design and integration to data collection and analysis.
Sandia’s SAR systems utilize a variety of advanced modes and are custom developed over frequency bands spanning from VHF to Ka-band and beyond.
Sandia’s fielded radar systems are real world tested and have provided unique ISR for critical mission areas.
Sandia’s radar systems encompass the entire end-to-end connectivity needed for decision superiority to ensure mission success.
Galleries, Data & Publications
This gallery features footage from Sandia’s advanced VideoSAR capabilities captured by a variety of SAR systems.
Sandia systems routinely produce thousands of useful images per day. This gallery showcases select imagery across different systems.