The Navy is rethinking what a laser weapon looks like

This article is republished with permission from Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. The U.S. Navy has a unusual proposition for the U.S. defense industry: take your high-energy laser weapons and break them into pieces. In a draft request for solutions (RFS) published on August 12 through the National Security Technology Accelerator (NSTXL), the Office of Naval Research (ONR) detailed plans to explore the development of “distributed”…