Watch Scott Evers, vice president of survivability and special programs at Elbit Systems of America; Dave Robbins, director of the Leidos Innovations Center and senior vice president at Leidos; and moderator Air Force Brig. Gen. David M. Gaedecke, vice commander of Sixteenth Air Force (Air Forces Cyber), take part in the “Mission Domain Live Engagement—EW” session from AFA’s 2021 virtual Aerospace Warfare Symposium.
A top Pentagon tech official called on industry this week to help the military develop “lighter, more efficient” directed energy weapons designed to go on aircraft and conduct special operations missions or down drones—areas where the Air Force’s directed energy efforts have been quiet as of late.