The Future of Directed Energy is Here

Hostile events witnessed throughout the world display real-world threats around practically every corner. With the proliferation of low cost, yet capable small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) throughout the world, the U.S. government and military need a sophisticated way to identify, classify, and destroy any threat with hostile intent.

Continued technological advancements in directed energy systems offer new and promising innovations that will keep the U.S. ahead of the power curve on the modern battlefield, whether against near-peer nations or non-state actors. Directed energy systems provide the warfighter with the ability to engage a target at the speed of light and produce scalable effects from temporary to permanent, thereby reducing the possibility of collateral damage. They also provide a relatively unlimited number of low-cost shots, constrained only by the fuel supply of the platform, which greatly reduce the logistics tail and associated cost.