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 r... Read more
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 dire... Read more
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. Read more
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,... Read more
General Dynamics’ information technology business has won a $30.8M contract to conduct bioeffects research for the U.S. Air Force. Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
A top official from Rolls-Royce said the company is set to unveil a new hybrid system it quietly built for nearly a decade to power and operate laser weapons, Defense News reported Thursday.... Read more
Lockheed Martin officials said the company considers equipping a sixth-generation fighter aircraft with a laser weapon built to counter aerial drones and sensors and disrupt enemies’ electro... Read more
Raytheon has showcased two directed energy platforms that were able to destroy drone targets as part of an experimental demonstration for the U.S. Air Force. Read more
Thomas Kennedy, chairman and CEO of Raytheon, has said several technologies have matured in the last two decades and could support the second iteration of the Strategic Defense Initiative th... Read more
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has landed a potential $29M contract to build technology prototypes, subsystems and components for the U.S. Army‘s directed energy system modern... Read more
Keoki Jackson, chief technology officer at Lockheed Martin, has outlined technology areas where Lockheed plans to invest over the next two to three decades during an Oct. 11 roundtable, C4IS... Read more
Nigel Whitehead, BAE Systems chief technologist, has said he believes that directed energy weapons can be deployed aboard fighter aircraft in the not-too distant future, FlightGlobal reporte... Read more
Applied Energetics to Develop Standoff Electronic Denial Tech for Army
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 Transfe... Read more