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.TODAY'S TOP NEWS
Coatings for petawatt-class high-energy lasers
Optics & Photonics News
Very soon after the advent of lasers in the 1960s, one major direction of development involved lasers that could deliver ever-higher energies to a target, to achieve electric-field strengths exceeding those binding electrons and nuclei. The goal was to study high-energy-density plasmas in controlled conditions within the laser’s focal volume.
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.DEPS NEWS
Interested in exhibiting at the UK/US DE Workshop? Booth spaces are still available. Sign up today!
DEPS
Registration is open, the room block link for the Swindon Marriott is posted, exhibit spaces are selling quickly and the preliminary agenda is in the works — join us for this year’s UK/US DE Workshop, 18 – 22 July in Swindon, UK.
If you are planning on attending and you haven’t already, please note, ALL RFV forms are now past due and must be submitted ASAP in addition to an emergency Letter of Justification. Details on this are available on the DEPS website.
U.S. presenters don’t forget — ALL U.S. papers and presentations requiring FDO approval by Danny Stewart are due to him by 30 June. Specific submission instructions are available on the DEPS website.
Get excited for a week full of professional development short courses, invited plenary presentations, HEL and RF/HPM technical sessions, exhibits, a welcome reception, and tours to Oxford and the ORC at Southampton University.
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.DEPS EVENTS
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July 18-22, 2022 |
UK/US DE Workshop — Swindon, UK
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| November 14-18, 2022 |
DE Systems Symposium, La Jolla, CA
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April 3-6, 2023 |
Annual DE Science & Technology Symposium, San Antonio, TX
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.INDUSTRY HEADLINES
Emerging capabilities policy office to speed policy considerations of new technologies
Department of Defense
The speed of war is getting faster, with new capabilities, such as artificial intelligence, hypersonic technologies, and more, entering the services.
A new Pentagon office seeks to do for policy what the research and acquisition communities have been doing in regard to new capabilities. Michael C. Horowitz leads the new Emerging Capabilities Policy Office.
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Report to Congress on anti-drone weapons
USNI News
Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), commonly called drones, have proliferated rapidly and are available to nation states and to nonstate actors and individuals. These systems could provide U.S. adversaries with a low-cost means of conducting intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions against — or attacking — U.S. forces.
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Northrop Grumman develops high-energy laser solutions to defend our nation at sea, on land, and in the air. Our technology is protecting U.S. forces from a range of threats, such as unmanned aerial systems, rockets, artillery and mortars, fast attack boats, and missiles.
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Defense firms push Congress for Pentagon budget increase over inflation
Defense News
U.S. defense and aerospace firms are asking Congress for a defense budget for 2023 that exceeds inflation by 3 to 5% and challenged lawmakers to pass their annual defense bills by Sept. 30.
The Aerospace Industries Association, a trade group for defense firms, said in a letter to leaders of the appropriations and armed services committees that Congress should pass defense spending and authorization bills before the start of the fiscal year — a rarity — to signal “resolve in the face of Russian and Chinese aggression.”
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.JOB OPENINGS
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Noisecom noise generators and standalone noise sources can address the critical needs of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) reduction by driving coherence spreading to minimize retroflected scattering, allowing for high optical power transmission. Coherence spreading using a random noise source reduces each laser module’s sharp waveform (peak power) by modulating the phase of the laser.
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