Semiconductor and fiber lasers provider nLIGHT will work as a subcontractor to Kord Technologies on a $34.5 million U.S. Army contract for the Directed Energy Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense prototyping effort. DE M-SHORAD aims to install 50kW-class high energy laser weapon systems on Stryker vehicles, improving their defenses against a variety of threats, including unmanned aircraft systems, nLIGHT said Monday.

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Centauri has purchased Kord Technologies in a move to expand technology offerings for the defense and intelligence sectors. Dave Dzaran, CEO of Centauri, said the company aims to help government customers address national security threats with the use of technology across the military, intelligence, space, missile and cyber domains.

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An industry team led by Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space business and KBR’s wholly owned subsidiary Kord conducted live-fire exercises of a 50 kilowatt-class laser mounted on a Stryker armored vehicle at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico and demonstrated the capability of the weapon system to counter multiple 60mm mortar rounds and drones. […] More

KBR’s Kord Technologies subsidiary demonstrated a 50 kilowatt-class laser weapon prototype on a Stryker vehicle as part of the U.S. Army’s Directed Energy Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense program during a combat shoot-off held in July at Fort Sill in Oklahoma. Byron Bright, president of KBR’s government solutions business and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, said […] More

A KBR subsidiary is continuing integration activities for the U.S. Army’s Mobile Experimental High Energy Laser weapon at the company’s new facility in Huntsville, Alabama ahead of prototype deliveries scheduled for fiscal year 2022.

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Applied Technology Associates has received a contract to develop a target acquisition and tracking platform for installation on a Stryker military ground vehicle as part of a U.S. Army initiative to increase soldier protection with laser weapon systems. ATA said Tuesday it will also provide electro-optical infrared sensors and control systems to the Directed Energy-Maneuver Short Range Air Defense prototyping effort.

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The Department of Defense has unveiled the recipients of the Nunn-Perry Award for fiscal year 2019.

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Raytheon has built the first antenna array for a new radar system designed to help the U.S. Army counter hypersonic weapons and other sophisticated threats.

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