According to information published by Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) on September 30, 2025, the U.S. defense contractor has launched a major capital investment to establish a new integration, production, and testing facility in support of Phase 2 of the U.S. Army’s Enduring High Energy Laser (E-HEL) weapon system program. This facility, designed to handle assembly, subsystem integration, and factory acceptance testing of advanced laser weapons, significantly strengthens HII’s role in the growing directed energy weapons sector and supports the U.S. Department of War’s strategic objective of fielding scalable, next-generation battlefield technologies. Read full Defense News at this link ...
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| U.S. Army Directed Energy laser weapon DE M-SHORAD in action at Fort Sill, demonstrating the future of air defense during a live-fire exercise. (U.S. Army photo by Jim Kendall) |
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