The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) contracted ACT to provide mission operations and data analysis support for all of the image processing efforts related to the SDIO LACE satellite program.

The Ultraviolet Plume Instrument (UVPI) was an SDIO plume-tracking instrument flown on the NRL's LACE satellite. The UVPI's primary mission was to collect images of rocket plumes in the ultraviolet wavelengths. Its secondary mission was to collect BACKGROUND image data of the Earth, the Earth's limb, and celestial objects in the near and middle ultraviolet wavebands. The UVPI was successfully used to collect image data from four rocket launches, one ground burn of a rocket, and many observations.

ACT’s responsibilities included:

	System integration of all the ground-based image-processing hardware with customized workstations used for data reduction.
	Data reduction and analysis of all image data.
	Archival and formatting of the image data (calibrated up to 1 gigabyte of image data per day). Calibrated data was archived in the FITS format at the NRL/BCD.
	Inflight calibration of the instruments and comparison to the ground calibration.
	Detailed analysis of the observed four rocket plumes and documentation of procedures and results.