• Multi-year contract includes laser spot detection, to be integrated into long range surveillance defense systems

Misgav, Israel, August 12, 2025: SCD, a global leader in defense technology specializing in the development and manufacture of a wide range of cooled and uncooled infrared detectors, announces it has secured $50 million repeat orders from leading North American customers for its high-definition SWIR (Short-Wave Infrared) and HD MWIR (Mid-Wave Infrared) detectors. The multi-year contracts include integration of the Cardinal 1280 SWIR detector and HD MWIR detectors into a variety of long-range surveillance applications over the next two years, reflecting the customers’ continued trust in SCD’s field-proven technology and products and further strengthening the company’s position as a leading global provider of infrared sensors for defense and homeland security.

Operators using systems integrating SCD’s sensors will benefit from enhanced mission effectiveness, improved situational awareness, and the ability to detect, recognize, and identify targets at extended ranges, even in challenging atmospheric conditions such as smoke, dust, fog, or rain. These operational advantages are enabled by the Cardinal  1280 SWIR detector, which features a very high sensitivity in the SWIR wave length. The detector’s unique Asynchronous Laser Pulse Detection (ALPD) built-in capability allows users to visualize laser spots with unmatched accuracy, even when the laser is not synchronized with the camera’s frame rate and in poor visibility conditions. This capability is essential for precise target designation and operational flexibility in complex, multi-domain battlefields.

For long range surveillance missions, requiring superior thermal image quality and long-range detection and recognition, SCD’s HD MWIR detectors deliver best-in-class performance.  The HD MWIR detectors’ advanced technical features and rugged design ensure seamless integration and reliable operation across a wide array of platforms, enabling enhanced mission profiles and operational demands.

These contracts demonstrate SCD’s ability to deliver advanced, scalable infrared solutions tailored to the evolving needs of modern defense requirements operating in multi-domain environments.

“With these contracts, by selecting both our Cardinal 1280 with its high sensitivity and unique ALPD, and our HD MWIR detectors, the customers can provide the most advanced long-range surveillance systems to the end user, with high confidence in performance, quality and mission success. They gain the ability to have a successful and safer mission, operating in standoff mode by identifying, recognizing, and tracking targets at greater distances and in harsher conditions”, said  Kobi Zaushnizer, CEO at SCD. “These capabilities are essential for next-generation, defense requirements, where more pixels on target, integrated with embedded  smart functionalities  such as  laser spot tracking  enable mission critical performance. The contract underscores our commitment to technological excellence, reliability, and customer trust, and highlights the proven, operational value our detectors deliver in real-world global defense requirements.