Kelly Hammett, former head of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate, has assumed the role of director of the Space Rapid Capabilities Office at Kirtland Air Force Base in New
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The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory recently held two separate events in New Mexico to advance directed energy and kinetic energy capabilities and space domain awareness. Pilots and officers virtually tested DE
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The White House has issued an updated list of critical and emerging technologies that are important to U.S. national security. The Office of Science and Technology Policy led a deliberative process via
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Heidi Shyu, undersecretary for research and engineering at the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said her office will spearhead a new science and technology strategy that will serve
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The U.S. Navy has revealed the design concept of the next-generation DDG(X) warship, which the service plans to equip with directed energy weapons and hypersonic missiles, USNI News reported Wednesday. The Navy
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The Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division has established a new division that will focus on high-power microwave weapon systems for the U.S.’ directed energy requirements. The new NSWCDD HPM Weapons System
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The Air Force Research Laboratory and the University of New Mexico will collaborate on a congressionally funded project to establish a research center that will focus on exploring fiber lasers and other
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Lt. Gen. Neil Thurgood, the U.S. Army’s director for hypersonics, directed energy, space and rapid acquisition, said his office completed in late September the deployment of a hypersonic weapon system to the
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The U.S. Army is close to deploying a platoon of four Stryker combat vehicles equipped with 50 kilowatt-class laser weapon prototypes in fiscal year 2022 after completing an assessment of the new
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The U.S. Army produced and tested its first combat-capable directed energy prototype after two years of development, creating what can potentially deter enemy rockets, artillery, mortars and drones. The Army said Tuesday
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