ISIS On Station

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency selected Lockheed Martin as the systems integrator and Raytheon as the radar developer for Phase 3 of its Integrated Sensor Is Structure, or ISIS, program on 27 April. Lockheed Martin will lead an industry team to develop and test a one-third scale airship featuring Raytheon’s new, low-power density radar. The autonomous flight test system will operate on station for ninety days and prove several key technologies. The demonstration is anticipated to last for up to one year. The ISIS program will develop the core technologies necessary to demonstrate an extremely capable radar sensor package within the structure of a stratospheric airship operating at approximately 70,000 feet for up to ten years.