Tag Archives: directed energy

Lockheed Martin has delivered to the U.S. Navy a high-energy laser weapon built for integration into an operational Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer.

A KBR subsidiary is continuing integration activities for the U.S. Army’s Mobile Experimental High Energy Laser weapon at the company’s new facility in Huntsville, Alabama ahead of prototype deliveries scheduled for fiscal year 2022.

Two Lockheed Martin officials said the company is working with U.S. military branches to develop directed energy systems to help defend military platforms and troops against various threats, National Defense Magazine reported Monday.

The Air Force Research Laboratory has indicated its intent to award Raytheon Technologies a sole-source contract to demonstrate a weapon system for defending military facilities against drone threats. The company would demonstrate a prototype of the Counter Electronic Highpower Microwave Extended Air Base Air Defense system, AFRL said Thursday in a notice of contract action.

Raytheon Technologies has built and delivered another high-energy laser weapon system to the U.S. Air Force for use in the branch's upcoming experiments and training activities overseas. The company said Monday HELWS has completed a directed energy weapon evaluation process and been approved for initial operational employment.

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has secured a three-year, $46M other transaction agreement to help the U.S. Army's Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office develop a testing platform for directed energy weapons.

Leidos’ Dynetics subsidiary will optimize the power of the U.S. Army’s directed energy weapons from 100 kilowatts to 300 kilowatts as part of a modernization initiative.

The U.S. Army has awarded Applied Energetics a contract to develop a standoff electronic denial technology under the first phase of the service branch's Small Business Technology Transfer program.

General Motors' defense business plans to leverage the parent company’s commercial research-and-development efforts to support its work in defense and aerospace areas, National Defense reported Thursday.

Joe Shepherd, a vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, has said that the Department of Defense’s current acquisition methods tend to slow down the delivery of advanced technologies like directed energy weapons to warfighters.

Lockheed Martin has showcased a laser system designed to defeat rotary and fixed-wing unmanned aerial systems as part of a demonstration for the U.S. Air Force.

Northrop Grumman signed a contract with the U.S. Army to deliver a 50-kilowatt laser with solid-state fiber optic features designed to engage targets without the need for constant reloading, Military.com reported Wednesday.

General Dynamics’ information technology business has won a $30.8M contract to conduct bioeffects research for the U.S. Air Force.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to award as much as $1M each to multiple research projects that will examine the feasibility of microsystem concepts and tools. DARPA said Tuesday its Microsystems Exploration program will initially focus on exploring novel materials, hardware security and heterogeneous computing architectures.

Verus Research, formerly known as XL Scientific, has landed a 10-year, $48M cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the U.S. Army to provide non-kinetic test and evaluation services for electronic warfare, directed energy and nuclear systems.