House lawmakers want the Pentagon to explore the potential for short pulse lasers to counter maneuvering hypersonic missiles, proposing a $6 million addition in fiscal year 2024 for the Missile Defense Agency to expand its work on the novel directed-energy technology. The House Appropriation defense subcommittee, in its mark of the FY-24 spending bill, would increase MDA’s Technology Maturation Initiatives portfolio to support work on the directed-energy work being carried out by the University of Rochester in upstate New York...
