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Army

Raytheon Moves Ahead In Army’s Stryker-Mounted 50KW Laser Prototype Program

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, August 18th, 2021

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Raytheon Moves Ahead In Army’s Stryker-Mounted 50KW Laser Prototype Program

DE M-SHORAD (Photo by U.S. Army) (Jim Kendall)

Raytheon Technologies [RTX] is moving forward on the Army’s program to deliver four Stryker-mounted 50-kilowatt laser prototypes in late fiscal year 2022, service officials confirmed Wednesday, with Northrop Grumman [NOC] having been dropped from the program before a shoot-off evaluation this summer. Army officials would not confirm the specific reason Northrop Grumman exited as one of two competitors vying for the Directed Energy Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense (DE M-SHORAD) program, while noting the firm failed to meet a required gate…

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