Podcasts Government Federal Drive with Tom Temin The Air Force builds a virtual test range for directed energy weapons

The Air Force builds a virtual test range for directed energy weapons

Published: June 21, 2022, 2:25 p.m.

b'When it comes to directed energy technologies like lasers and microwave weapons, the Air Force doesn\\u2019t have anything that\\u2019s quite ready to deploy on a fighter jet. But a new modeling and simulation facility at Kirtland Air Force base is going to try to make sure pilots are ready to use them once they are. The Air Force Research Laboratory just awarded a 10-year, $80 million contract to build a new \\u201cvirtual range\\u201d for directed energy weapons. To learn more, Federal News Network\\u2019s Jared Serbu talked with Christopher Hurlburt, deputy principal investigator for modeling and simulation at AFRL.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'