KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFNS) — The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate recently hosted a collaborative wargame with its sister AFRL unit, the Munitions Directorate, at Kirtland Air Force Base. The Directed Energy and Kinetic Energy Directed Energy Utility Concept Experiment, or DEKE DEUCE, explored synergies between directed energy and kinetic concepts in the future battlespace.
“DEKE DEUCE required extensive collaboration between dozens of scientists and engineers from both directorates over a period of more than nine months,” said Dr. Darl Lewis, DEUCE lead and wargaming principal investigator. “The Office of Naval Research also collaborated extensively in the lead-up to playing their Elektra battle management concept alongside those of AFRL.”