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DARPA Selects Northrop Grumman, Umbra For Phase II Of DRIFT Program

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, May 1st, 2024

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DARPA Selects Northrop Grumman, Umbra For Phase II Of DRIFT Program

Bistatic synthetic aperture radar image of Tarbela Dam in Pakistan. Image: Umbra

Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Umbra have been awarded small contracts by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to continue to the second phase of a program designed to collect data from radar-equipped satellites flying in formation and develop innovative algorithms to process the data for military applications. Umbra’s contract under the Distributed Radar Image Foundation Technology (DRIFT) program is for $6 million and will last for six months and Northrop Grumman’s is for $2 million and covers one year,…

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