Sandia National Laboratories is proud of its history of developing cutting-edge synthetic aperture radar technologies. Below is a short list detailing Sandia's first-of-a-kind accomplishments and improvements to SAR.

• First real-time 1-ft strip mapping SAR

• First 100-lb class synthetic aperture radar

• First real-time carrier-phase GPS implementation

• First real-time sub-4-inch spotlight Ku-band SAR

• First 1-GHz 48-bit DDS with 50-dB spur-free dynamic range

• First adverse weather, GPS-denied precision-targeting demonstration