AFRL Partners With UNM for New Directed Energy Center
KIRTLAND AFB, N.M. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL’s) Directed Energy Directorate is partnering with The University of New Mexico (UNM)…
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Rapid Pulse Laser Weapons Could Be the Pentagon’s Future Edge
According to this article, the Pentagon’s current research in directed energy weapons concerns continuous-wave lasers, which use a relatively low-power,…
Directed Energy Weapons Shoot Painful but Non-Lethal Beams – Are Similar Weapons Behind the Havana Syndrome?
The latest episodes of so-called Havana syndrome, a series of unexplained ailments afflicting U.S. and Canadian diplomats and spies, span the…
New Generation of Directed-Energy Weapons Using Lasers and the Electromagnetic Spectrum Expected by the 2060s
The U.S. Air Force released a report, “Directed Energy Futures 2060,” from an assembled panel of experts who evaluated the…
BAE Unveils World’s Smallest Anti-Jamming Military GPS
According to this article, the world’s smallest, lightest, and most power-efficient military M-Code GPS receiver has been developed by BAE…
Air Force Directed Energy Report Argues Defensive Force Fields May Be “Just on the Horizon”
According to this article, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, NM, released a report titled…
Aboard Commercial Rocket, Space Defense Agency Sends up Satellites for First Time
The Falcon 9 mission will include five Space Defense agency (SDA) satellites. These include a pair of “Mandrake II” satellites;…
The Space Force Wants to Use Directed-Energy Systems for Space Superiority
According to this article, Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond, Chief of Space Operations of the U.S. Space Force, acknowledged that…
NRL PRAM Mission: One Year and Still Going
WASHINGTON – It has been one year since U.S. Naval Research Laboratory engineers launched PRAM, the Photovoltaic Radio-frequency Antenna Module,…
Army-Funded Research Paves Way for Improved Lasers, Communications
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — New photonics research paves the way for improved lasers, high-speed computing, and optical communications for the…
United States Facing Increasing Nuclear, Space-Based Threats, Leaders Say
Two Defense Department leaders discussed threats to the United States from China and Russia and the DoD’s steps at providing…
Navy Installing More Directed Energy Weapons on DDGs, Conducting Land-Based Laser Testing This Year
The U.S. Navy (USN) installs the fourth and fifth dazzler systems this year and begins land-based testing of a high-energy…