The U.S. is building its laser dome—one contract at a time

This article is republished with permission from Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. The threat of low-cost weaponized drones may grow more urgent by the day, but the United States’ nascent laser dome is slowly but surely expanding to meet it. In a new request for information (RFI) published on July 20, the U.S. Coast Guard’s Research and Development Center stated that it is “interested” in high-energy laser weapons “or comparable laser…