Northop Grumman Completes Preliminary Design Review For Scalable, High-Energy Laser

Northrop Grumman says it has completed a preliminary design review for a prototype 300-kW-class high-energy laser.

Last week, the company announced it had completed the review for a prototype high-energy laser with an architecture that is scalable to more than a megawatt for the Dept. of Defense.

In March 2021, Northrop Grumman received a $72 million Pentagon contract for the High-Energy Scaling Initiative (HELSI) to demonstrate a laser prototype employing the company’s coherent...