Directed Energy Research

Abstract

Following the planned Airborne Laser testing in FY 2010, the Director of Defense Research and Engineering will assess whether keeping the ABL aircraft as a science and technology test bed for high power laser research and development is cost effective. Working with Director of Defense Research and Engineering and the High Energy Laser Joint Technology Office, we will maintain the ABL aircraft as a potential test bed for flight and ground tests to characterize high energy laser beam propagation pending results of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering study. The program also plans flight and ground testing that will characterize laser effects in various engagements and environments to anchor system models that will be used to shape technology development for future missile defense directed energy efforts.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2011
• Source ID: MD69_0603901C_3_0400_PB_2011

Tags

Fields of Study

• Physics

Readers

• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Missile Defense Systems.
• Optical Physics and Photonics.

Technology Areas

• Directed Energy