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See how Raytheon Missiles & Defense is developing high-power microwaves as part of layered air defenses.
By Raytheon Missiles & DefenseWhy cloud modernization is critical to multi-domain operations
JADC2 is a forcing function, driving digital transformation of network infrastructure.
By the time President Joe Biden arrives, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid will be serving as prime minister, with an election looming in the background of the discussions.
By Arie Egozi
“There’s not a lot of detail, but from what there is, there’s no need to hyperventilate,” said Laura Grego, an astrophysicist at MIT.
By Theresa Hitchens
The Navy is preparing to outfit a destroyer with a separate directed energy weapon this year.
By Justin Katz Israel is increasingly worried about Iranian use of drones, prompting aggressive, innovative countermeasures.
By Arie Egozi
TEL AVIV: Israel has made a small but significant step towards a laser-based system that is capable of intercepting missiles, with the announcement that the country’s “Iron Beam” system officially has a budget. The program, which has existed in some form of R&D for more than a decade, has faced headwinds as a result of…
By Arie Egozi
Optical clocks in labs today “fill out a huge room, a big room with a very complex, very sophisticated apparatus that takes multiple PhDs to run,” Tatjana Curcic, who manages DARPA’s Robust Optical Clock Network project, told Breaking Defense.
By Theresa Hitchens and Jaspreet Gill
A major overhaul is coming in software for missile warning
Space Systems Command’s FORGE program is the first, major missile-warning software modernization effort in 20 years.
Planned HELIOS installation comes amid congressional scrutiny of the tech and tightening contract deadlines.
By Justin Katz
The Army wants to demonstrate a 300 kilowatt laser weapon in fiscal 2022.
By Andrew Eversden
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Raytheon’s high-energy laser weapon systems is part of the U.S. Army’s Directed Energy Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense (DE M-SHORAD) program.
By Barry Rosenberg
The Army is on track to deliver a first prototype MRC by 2023, said Marcia Holmes, deputy director at the Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technology Office.
By Theresa Hitchens
Lockheed hopes to unseat an incumbent team of Raytheon and Kord Technologies, which received a $123.9 million contract this summer.
By Valerie Insinna
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Raytheon Intelligence & Space is advancing counter UAS tech with high-energy lasers.
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Ultrashort pulse lasers, which fire a trillion watts for one-quadrillionth of a second, are a technology too early for military use today. But that won’t always be the case, says Joe Shepherd of Booz Allen Hamilton.
By Joe Shepherd