The Air Force is looking to conduct high-energy laser beam control research using its small-scale wind tunnel and tactical beam control laboratory housed at Kirtland Air Force Base, NM, according to a May 18 request for information posted on the Federal Business Opportunities website. The research would support the service's Beam Control and Aero-Effects Research and Development (BARD), an effort continuing advances in state-of-the-art beam control systems for a supersonic flow environment. BARD is separate from another Air Force effort,...