
The Office of Naval Research’s (ONR) 150 kW follow-on to the Laser Weapons System (LaWS) will be moved to the USS Portland (LPD-27) later this year, according to a Navy official. An ONR official told Defense Daily on Thursday at the Department of Defense’s DoD Lab Day that once the new system, named the Solid State Laser Technology Maturation (SSL-TM), finishes integration, it will be taken to a land-based test site to better examine its capabilities. “You can only do…