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Laser Weapon Systems Innovative Warfighting Solutions For The Services IS ADVANCING AND DEMONSTRATING A WEAPON SYSTEMS RANGE OF LASER WEAPON SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES: Lockheed Martin has specialized in laser weapon system development for 40 years, RELI (ROBUST ELECTRIC LASER with advancements in areas such as precision pointing and control, line-of-sight ATHENA (ADVANCED TEST INITIATIVE) FOR ARMY HIGH ENERGY HEL TVD (HIGH ENERGY LASER stabilization and adaptive optics – essential functions in harnessing and directing HIGH ENERGY ASSET) LASER MOBILE TEST TRUCK (HELMTT) TACTICAL VEHICLE DEMONSTRATOR the power of a laser beam – and in compact, robust, spectrally beam-combined devices that provide unmatched performance.

Lockheed Martin’s directed energy to counter a growing range of emerging UNIQUE ADVANTAGES (DE) laser program draws upon our threats by providing: • A robust and highly-maintainable proven expertise across a broad range • Very deep magazine laser architecture that is designed of capabilities, as well as our spirit of to minimize life-cycle cost and to • Extremely low cost per engagement innovation. Our experience includes: maximize up-time • Speed of delivery • A LM-designed and integrated ground-based, • 60 kW class laser currently integrated into • Army demonstrator addresses Indirect • The beam-control/fire-control • Output laser power that can be transportable laser weapon system the Army’s HELMTT vehicle Fires Protection Capability (IFPC) missions system for a megawatt-class • An adaptive optics beam control rapidly adjusted between low and • At 30 kW, represents the first and highest • Currently undergoing testing in relevant • Mobile 100 kW-class laser weapon system laser that destroyed a ballistic capability that increases significantly maximum power to support disrupt, fiber laser power level for a laser weapon tactical environments against targets such to counter rocket, mortar, and UAS threats in flight Airborne Laser the lethality and range of the laser disable, and destroy capabilities system of this type, has demonstrated the as rockets, mortars, and UASs for fixed site protection Program system • Highly parallel laser architecture ability to provide multiple hours of continuous • Scalable architecture that demonstrates • Compact, efficient Spectrally Beam • High-power spectrally beam- • The ability to acquire, track, and that supports graceful degradation destroy small UAS in an operationally operation, without failure, and provides an enhanced laser supportability and graceful Combined fiber laser with high Power in combined fiber that provide by eliminating almost all single advanced adaptive optics beam control system degradation the Bucket efficiency (PIBE) the most efficient conversion of challenging cluttered background points of failure environment to enhance lethality and range. • Highly reliable solid state laser • Advanced adaptive optics improves system platform prime power into lethal • An affordable, integrated system that has architecture with >8 hrs high power performance, even in harsh weather power on target • A DE system with demonstrated demonstrated capability of addressing multiple operation, and >5,000 laser shots conditions ability to provide multiple hours of • Unique SWIR component threats, including UAS against a challenging • Low jitter, agile beam director for continuous operation, without failure capabilities that significantly cluttered background, rockets, mortars, and enhanced lethality extend the ISR (intelligence, small boats surveillance, and reconnaissance) Laser weapons are well-suited to HELIOS (HIGH ENERGY LASER AND range of the DE laser system countering large numbers of inexpensive, INTEGRATED OPTICAL- WITH SHIELD (SELF-PROTECT HIGH ENERGY LPLD (LOW POWER LASER • Manufacturing complex, high- highly maneuverable threats that might SURVEILLANCE) LASER DEMONSTRATOR) DEMONSTRATOR) performance optical targeting otherwise exhaust the magazines of our systems current defensive KE weapons. Using • Highest system efficiency demonstrated in any DE laser • Widespread weapons-system and DE and KE weapons together enables system; minimizing size weight and platform integration experience warfighters to defeat emerging swarm power requirements across all DoD services • High Lethality

REVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGY Laser weapons provide the advantages of speed, flexibility, • The high-energy fiber laser will be • SHiELD LANCE (Laser Advancement for Next • Missile Defense Agency (MDA) laser beam precision and low cost per designed to counter unmanned aerial Generation Compact Environment) advances control program designed to demonstrate engagement that are only possible systems and small boats spectral beam combined (SBC) fiber laser applicability of DE to MDA missions by with lasers. • HELIOS sensors will be part of an packaging to provide high beam quality propagating a lethal high-power laser beam threats, reserving our most capable These advantages apply to stand- integrated weapon system, designed to HEL in aircraft pod. over a very long-range from a high-altitude kinetic weapons for our adversaries’ alone DE laser systems as well as to provide decision-makers with maximum airborne platform largest and most hardened threats. DE weapon systems that combine DE and access to information. HELIOS data will • Developing technology and system design weapon systems support multi-mission kinetic energy (KE) capabilities. In be available on the Lockheed Martin-led under MDA contract scenarios, and can be readily augmented these cases, DE operates as a force Aegis Combat System. • Leverages expertise in laser system by communications functions, as well as multiplier, enabling the warfighter • The HELIOS dazzler will be designed architectures, ballistic missile defense unprecedented intelligence, surveillance to obscure adversarial UAS-based system integration, platform integration, and reconnaissance range, and precision. ISR capabilities. optics and beam control PIRA# OWG201601004 PIRA# Corporation Martin © 2019 Lockheed laserweapons www.lockheedmartin.com/ Bethesda, MD 20817 U.S.A. Rockledge Drive 6801 Corporation Martin Lockheed

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