MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. -- A recent Public Health audit of Madigan's laser safety program resulted in it being lauded as the best of its kind across Army Medicine.

The Pentagon is pressing ahead with a new Joint Laser Weapon System (JLWS) to counter cruise missiles, while also signing a classified AI contract with Google. The JLWS, jointly developed by the Army ...

The Pentagon has launched a Joint Laser Weapon System program to counter cruise missile threats, while the U.S. Marines are deploying SMASH 2000L smart scopes to combat drones. The laser initiative, ...

Laser-equipped spaceships were believed to be possible by 2030, and a secret government agency wanted to make planes invisible. The now-defunct Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) ...

Ever since the Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (LASER) was invented in 1958, science fiction has depicted them as all-powerful weapons of war. For most of the laser's history, ...

Despite years of promises, the latest budget shows directed energy systems are still largely confined to development and experimentation. After months of bold promises about its directed energy weapon ...

Modifications to Air Force Special Operations Command's (AFSOC) fleet of AC-130 gunships means that even if a planned August test of the new Airborne High Energy Laser (AHEL) system aboard an AC-130J ...