Laser air defenses will be operational before decade’s end, Lockheed exec says
In a nod to a common refrain that laser systems are always just five years away, Lockheed Martin’s Stephanie Hill said, “Not anymore.”
In a nod to a common refrain that laser systems are always just five years away, Lockheed Martin’s Stephanie Hill said, “Not anymore.”
The aerospace titan wants to combine decades of detailed engineering data and test results with cutting-edge AI analysis to work out bugs in its designs before it builds them.
“We are going to make sure that we have security of supply, both in the United States and abroad, for the things that we need to be successful, and we are going to make investments to do that,” said Tim Cahill, executive vice president of Lockheed’s missiles and fire control unit.
Despite L3Harris's investments in its Aerojet Rocketdyne subsidiary, "we are still struggling to get everything we need as a builder," said Tim Cahill, Lockheed's vice president of its missiles and fire control business.
"There’s a real capability that can be deployed as soon as the government says it can be," Northrop Grumman's Rob Jassey told me, possibly even in "months."
HUNTSVILLE, ALA.: Lockheed Martin is studying several new air and missile defense systems, from an all-new six-foot rocket to a ship-launched version of the Patriot missile, a top executive told reporters here this morning. In keeping with the military’s emphasis on multi-domain operations that attack old problems from new angles, Lockheed is even looking at […]