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.TODAY'S TOP NEWS
Tankers charging drones with lasers the focus of new DARPA Program
The Drive
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, the Pentagon’s emerging technologies specialist, is looking into outfitting aerial refueling tankers as “Airborne Energy Wells” to recharge battery-powered drones. The agency has put out a request to industry players as it seeks information on the feasibility of using modified manned tanker aircraft to wirelessly transmit power, via laser beams, to unmanned aerial vehicles, in what could be a potentially ground-breaking development.
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.DEPS NEWS
Preliminary Agenda Now Available for the UK/US DE Workshop
DEPS
The Summer season has officially begun and the UK/US DE Workshop, 18 – 22 July in Swindon, UK is right around the corner. Join us for a week full of short courses (Monday & Friday), invited plenary presentations, HEL and RF/HPM technical sessions, exhibits, a welcome reception, and tours to Oxford and the ORC at Southampton University.
With nearly 100 presentations lined up, the preliminary agenda is packed with informative briefs on all things HEL and RF/HPM.
As a reminder, U.S. travelers are no longer required to present a negative covid test for travel back to the United States.
U.S. presenters don’t forget — It is the responsibility of the originator of a briefing/presentation to ensure the content is approved for release to foreign attendees by their servicing FDO. Final FDO approved submissions are due to Danny Stewart by 30 June for transport to the UK. Detailed submission instructions are available on the DEPS website.
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.DEPS EVENTS
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July 18-22, 2022 |
UK/US DE Workshop — Swindon, UK
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| Nov. 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
The Air Force builds a virtual test range for directed energy weapons
Federal News Network
When it comes to directed energy technologies like lasers and microwave weapons, the air force just doesn’t have anything that’s quite ready to deploy on a fighter jet. But a new modeling and simulation facility at Kirtland Air Force Base is going to try to make sure pilots are ready to use them once they are.
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China conducts midcourse missile defense test 1 year after last
The Drive
China’s Ministry of National Defense announced that a land-based, midcourse, anti-ballistic missile defense test had been carried out over the weekend. The test marks China’s fifth midcourse anti-ballistic missile test to be announced by the Chinese government over the course of 12 years.
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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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Hypersonic weapons threats will likely fund tech investments by US
Asia Pacific Defence Reporter
The U.S. is currently the global leader in the development of directed energy weapons (DEWs) but faces threats from China and Russia who are also developing these systems, says GlobalData. The data and analytics company notes that China and Russia’s development of hypersonic weapons will likely result in increased investments in advanced technology in the National Defense Authorisation Act (NDAA).
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.JDE UPDATES
New Papers are available online now for DEPS members:
Inferring Internal Temperature From Measured Skin Surface Temperatures in Electromagnetic Heating — Hongyun Wang, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of California *NEW
Guided Mode Expansion Analysis of Photonic Crystal Surface Emitting Lasers — Pawel Strzebonski and Kent Choquette, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Illinois *NEW
Measuring Modeling Parameters of an Electron Beam — Zachary Olson, AFRL, JBSA Fort Sam Houston and Southwest Research Institute
Counter Directed Energy Weapons and the Defense of Naval Unmanned Aerial Vehicles — Dr. Bonnie Johnson, Naval Postgraduate School
Creation and Use of Probabilistic Dynamic Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Functions — Albert Bailey, SAIC
High Energy Laser Measurements Using Beam Irradiance on Target System (BITS) with In-situ Primary Standard — David Ward, SemQuest, Inc.
Power and Thermal Management Size, Weight, and Power Analysis for Generic, Mobile Directed Energy Platforms — David Hobby, Colorado State University REACH Co-Lab
These are to be published in the upcoming unclassified issue of the Journal of Directed Energy.
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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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