The US military’s full embrace of high-energy laser weapons may depends on how easy they are for the average service member ...

Welcome to Pulse, a regular digest of updates from around the directed energy ecosystem. In this week’s edition: the US military’s dreaded Active Denial System finally gets a mission, the Defense ...

This is the current state of play for US military laser weapons.

The US Army’s first production-ready high-energy laser weapons could end up in soldiers’ hands in the next 18 months, according to service officials.

Since late August, the US military’s Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF) 401 has been touting a December “directed energy ...

America’s laser dome is gradually taking shape. The US military has selected four directed energy weapons to participate in a Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF) 401 pilot program to “expand the ...

On a modern battlefield defined by the ever-expanding “affordable mass” of cheap, disposable drones, Ben Levinson wants to build something that lasts. Levinson is the founder and CEO of Heven AeroTech ...

Editor’s note: This post has been updated. After decades of research and development, high-energy laser weapons have finally become an operational reality. But not all laser weapons are created equal.

Welcome to In Focus, an occasional interview series with subject matter experts in the directed energy space. US Navy Adm. Daryl Caudle is the 34th Chief of Naval Operations and a longtime student of ...

Welcome to Pulse, a regular digest of updates from around the directed energy ecosystem. In this edition: the Army releases footage of laser weapons operating at the US-Mexico border, a video supercut ...