The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a $35 million contract modification to the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) in an effort to advance work on a breakthrough speed-of-light weapon and draft a Pulsed Laser Roadmap, pushing the total value of the research effort to just under $50 million. MDA's Directed Energy and Left-Through-Right-of-Launch Integration (LTRI) program office expects the funding to support advanced testing and modeling of pulsed laser lethality -- research aimed at developing the ability...
