New DOD Panel Considers Options for Fielding Directed-Energy Weapons

By Jason Sherman / September 29, 2006 at 5:00 AM
An influential Pentagon advisory board is establishing a task force to examine opportunities for equipping the military with a new generation of weapons that use directed energy to hit targets with unprecedented precision. The Defense Science Board review comes as the Defense Department, at Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's direction, is working to marshal its combat laser research and development projects in a bid to expedite the promise of a capability the U.S. armed forces have long-sought -- the ability to...

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