Tag Archives: directed energy

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.

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. 

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’ electronic equipment, USNI News reported Wednesday.

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.

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 that was canceled in 1993, National Defense reported Monday. SDI is a program during the Reagan administration that sought to counter the …

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 modernization initiative. The company said Wednesday it aims to help advance DE platforms intended to help the Army Space and Missile Defense Command and Army Forces Strategic Command …

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, C4ISRNET reported Thursday. Jackson said the technologies are classified into three categories, including the strategic technology thread areas that cover “anything Lockheed Martin …

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 reported Wednesday. Whitehead told reporters during his visit to Singapore that directed energy weapons should be able to beam energy precisely on one spot to …

Boeing will participate at the upcoming Space & Missile Defense Symposium in Alabama, where it will feature homeland defense, integrated air and missile defense, commercial satellite and directed energy technologies. The company said Wednesday the event is scheduled at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville from Aug. 8 to 10 and includes a session …

The U.S. Navy has issued a request for information on existing designs of small surface combatant ships that can be modified to meet the service branch’s requirements for its future guided-missile frigates. The military branch said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday that it plans to award a contract in …

The Air Force Research Laboratory’s directed energy directorate and Advanced Optical Technologies have signed a five-year agreement that will allow the latter to use AFRL instrumentation at its Sandia Science & Technology Park facility. AFRL said Sunday the cooperative research and development agreement will help transition and introduce AOT’s laser sensors …

Raytheon has started to deliver the pulse power containers for the U.S. Navy‘s future railgun following the validation of power requirements for the next-generation directed energy weapon. The Navy will integrate the pulse power containers into its railgun test range to prepare for further development and testing under the program, Raytheon …

David Stoudt, formerly senior technologist for directed energy at the U.S. Navy, has joined Booz Allen Hamilton as a senior executive adviser and fellow for the company’s directed energy program. In his new role, Stoudt will focus on providing thought leadership in engineering, science and C4ISR, Booz Allen said Wednesday. Trey …

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Universal Technology Corp. a $37.6 million contract to advise the military service on research and technology initiatives. Universal Technology will assist in the Air Force Research Laboratory space vehicles and directed energy directorates’ professional engineering and management work under the contract, the Defense Department said …