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National Defense July 2010	Navy Looking at Lasers to Defend Ships From Enemy Aircraft The Navy recently tested commercial welding lasers and has proven that the beams are capable of knocking small planes out of the sky.
National Defense July 2015 Ariel Robinson	Directed Energy Weapons: Will They Ever Be Ready? Despite promising test results and decades of research and development, it could be many more years before the military is ready to bring directed energy weapons into the mainstream.
National Defense March 2009 Grace V. Jean	Military May Be Souring On Laser Weapons The Pentagon's enthusiasm for laser weapons is not what it used to be.
National Defense June 2013 Dan Parsons	Energy Weapons: The Next Gunpowder? The U.S. military has been investigating and investing in solid-state lasers and other directed energy weapons for half a century. All that work has finally paid off, as the Navy is set to deploy the first laser small enough to fit on a ship.
National Defense July 2009 Robert H. Williams	Weapons Grade Laser Validated in Military Test Scientists and engineers have scored a first in achieving more than 105 kilowatts of electric light ray intensity in the final demonstration milestone of the military's Joint High Power Solid State Laser Program
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2009	C-130-Based High-Energy Laser Weapon Defeats Ground Target in Flight Test Laser weapons experts from Boeing and the U.S. Air Force defeated a ground target from the air with the Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) aircraft.
National Defense September 2011 Eric Beidel	Lasers to Aid Machine Guns Aboard Ships Sailors soon may have a new weapon to use on the high seas, one that combines the precision of directed energy with the lethal power of a machine gun.
National Defense August 2009 Grace V. Jean	Laser Weapons: Laboratory Toys or Imminent Battlefield Systems? Clearing the hurdles will be a challenge, given the tough economic climate and the uncertainty of future warfare needs in the Defense Department.
The Motley Fool October 27, 2009 Rich Smith	Boeing Builds a Laser Tank The Force is strong with this one.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008	Neutralizing Improvised Explosive Devices with Lasers Boeing Integrated Defense Systems demonstrated that the company's Avenger-mounted laser system can neutralize improvised explosive devices (IEDs) currently threatening U.S. troops in war zones.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2009 John Keller	Navy Wants Ideas From Industry on How to Counter Directed-Energy Weapons The U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) is interested in technology to counter high-energy lasers and non-lethal weapons like high-power microwave transmitters, particle beams, and pulsed high-power electromagnetic systems.
Popular Mechanics August 28, 2008 Joe Pappalardo	5 Reasons the U.S. Navy's Scared (and What They're Doing About It) It's a well-known rule of thumb in military circles: protection from the things that scare the Pentagon receive R&D money.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 John McHale	Laser Weapons: Moving From Promise to Performance The military's laser weapons programs are making steady progress in their transition from the laboratory to the battlefield, with deployment of initial systems expected within the next three to five years.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 John McHale	Chasing the goal of an efficient battlefield laser U.S. DoD researchers aim to develop small lasers for use in tactical air missions. The engineering challenge has been taken up by contractors including Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin.
Popular Mechanics July 22, 2008 Erik Sofge	Laser Truck Inches Closer to Iraq Battlefield: Exclusive First Look The Army is one step closer to getting what can only be described as a laser truck - one capable of disabling incoming rounds.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010 John Keller	High-power laser on Avenger combat vehicle destroys IEDs in tests A laser weapon mounted on an Avenger combat vehicle destroyed 50 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) like those that kill U.S. service members in Iraq and Afghanistan during September testing, say officials of the Boeing Co., designer of the Avenger high-power laser.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 John McHale	Laser Weapons, on Target The U.S. military and its partners from industry are meeting major milestones in various programs as they move closer to making laser weaponry a standard part of the U.S. arsenal.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Weapons at the Speed of Light Laser weaponry will be a tool in the U.S. military's arsenal much sooner than many think, with the first applications for missile defense from the ground and the air.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 John McHale	Laser Weapons Are Getting Closer to Reality U.S. Department of Defense experts are close to fielding the Airborne Laser (ABL) for missile defense and several other high-energy laser weapons programs received new funding this year.
National Defense November 2015 Jon Harper	Navy Working on 'Sci-Fi' Weapons The Navy's research-and-development dollars are going toward systems that will help the service stay ahead of advanced weaponry being developed by China and other potential adversaries.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005	Laser weapons slowly shifting from science fiction to reality During the exercise, called Advanced Concepts Event or ACE, pilots used the newly developed laser-armed F-16 simulator to prepare for aerial combat once laser weapons become available.
Popular Mechanics December 2008 Joe Pappalardo	As Navy Tech Advances, Will New Weapons Cause a Power Crunch? The Navy is developing new weapons and sensors that demand large amounts of electrical power.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007	In brief Boeing awarded Laser JDAM contract... Raytheon ships ARTEMIS sensor for on-demand surveillance from space... Air Force awards Lockheed Martin weather systems contract...
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2009	Northrop Grumman-built laser demonstrates long-duration, lethal lasing onboard Airborne Laser aircraft Test settings can be used for future testing, including the planned shootdown of a ballistic missile with laser weapons scheduled to occur later in the year, according to company officials.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008	In Brief Boeing installs high-energy laser on Laser Gunship aircraft... Northrop Grumman develops high-speed transistor... Raytheon tests air-launched missile defense system... etc.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 John McHale	Future weapons: Solid-state lasers Industry and military scientists are moving forward in the quest to develop solid-state lasers for use as weapons by warfighters of the future.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2006	Air Force seeks to improve battlefield logistics with recycled laser fuel This achievement removes the need to dispose of used fuel, and will substantially improve warfighting logistics, says the Air Force project officer on the program.
National Defense March 2015 Valerie Insinna	'Distributed Lethality' Concept Boosts Navy's Need For New Weaponry A new concept called "distributed lethality," describes how legacy vessels would be packed with off-the-shelf weapons and sensors that make them more deadly and survivable.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 Courtney E. Howard	LynuxWorks Provides RTOS for Shipboard Self-Defense System Engineers at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems have built the next-generation combat system on the LynxOS real-time operating system (RTOS)
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2009 Courtney E. Howard	Raytheon moves ahead with upgrades to Navy's Ship Self-Defense System U.S. Navy officials awarded Raytheon Co. in Tewksbury, Mass., a $23 million contract to serve as the platform systems engineering agent for the Ship Self-Defense System.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006 John Keller	Northrop Grumman readies laser-based anti-missile system for operational deployment One Skyguard system can provide a protective shield of about six miles in diameter to defend deployed forces, a large military installation, a large civilian population, or industrial area, Northrop Grumman officials say.
Popular Mechanics October 6, 2008 Erik Sofge	Robotic Mirror Fleet May Boost Boeing's Airborne Laser Accuracy In the history of comic books, rarely has a mastermind come up with a weapon quite as unabashedly cool as the Airborne Laser.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2009	ABL High-Power Laser Weapon Moves Toward Missile Shoot-Down Demonstration Missile defense experts fired the high-power laser aboard the Airborne Laser (ABL) aircraft in flight for the first time in August, to move the airborne military laser closer to an actual missile shoot-down demonstration.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2005 John Keller	Editor's Notebook: Darpa Details Requirements for High-Energy Diode-Laser Initiative The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is moving ahead with a program to develop a 100-kilowatt weapons-grade diode laser capable of destroying military targets.
The Motley Fool April 14, 2011 Rich Smith	Northrop Grumman's Naval Death Star The defense contractor's new laser gun is a real blast.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006	Northrop Grumman Solid-State Laser Intended for Several Kinds of Military Missions Scientists at the Northrop Grumman Space Technology segment are developing a high-energy, solid-state laser called Vesta that company officials claim is powerful enough to perform many basic military missions.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2006 John McHale	Airborne Laser completes laser ground tests During the tests, experts demonstrated lasing duration and power at levels suitable to destroy several classes of ballistic missiles, Boeing officials say.
National Defense March 2012 Eric Beidel	Navy Leaders Want a More Flexible Fleet After fighting two land wars for a decade, the military is putting an emphasis back on the sea and is shifting its focus to the Asia-Pacific region and to a more maritime-weighted mission in the Middle East.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006 John McHale	Sensors Light Path to Defeating Incoming Military designers are taking advantage of the latest sensor technology and signal processing systems to track and kill incoming enemy missiles.
The Motley Fool September 30, 2008 Rich Smith	Northrop Brings a Laser to a Gunfight Northrop Grumman is a bona fide ray-gun shop for laser-happy investors.
National Defense November 2007 Breanne Wagner	All-Electric Ship Could Begin to Take Shape By 2012 As part of an ambitious technology plan for the Navy fleet of the future, the Office of Naval Research is exploring ways to power all-electric ships.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 Ben Ames	Air Force tunes nonlethal directed-energy weapons The U.S. Air Force wants the Active Denial System, which fires painful but nonlethal, energy, to be more portable. And U.S. Navy and Coast Guard vessels may get a smaller version of the Long Range Acoustic Device, which generates a focused beam of sound to dissuade attackers.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2004	Test Moves Missile-Defense Laser Program Closer to Deployment The future U.S. Airborne Laser system took another step forward last month when modules of the system's megawatt-class chemical oxygen-iodine laser were test fired for the first time while linked together as one unit.
National Defense February 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Proliferation of Cruise Missiles Sparks Concern About U.S. Air Defenses The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan saw the rise of improvised explosive devices as the ultimate asymmetric weapon. Future conflicts, strategists warn, could expose U.S. forces on land and at sea to a deadly weapon that is extremely hard to detect: cruise missiles.
The Motley Fool August 3, 2009 Rich Smith	6 Stocks That Never Surrender While I'm certainly not rooting against a broad-based economic recovery, I'm convinced that my six star defense companies will perform just fine in any economy.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2007 Courtney Howard	Ionatron Forms Laser Group to Focus on Military, Aerospace, and Security Applications The company has established an organization to build specialty lasers for military, aerospace, and security applications
Popular Mechanics November 13, 2007 Joe Pappalardo	Boeing Tests Laser-Mounted Humvee as IED Hunter The roof-mounted laser can destroy explosive devices, and pretty much everything else, in it's path.