Directed Energy Weapons

Seminar Overview

This course describes the science and current practice of directed energy weapons. It describes the evolution and current state of the art and it details the predicted course of the deployment of these weapons and their projected configuration over the next 5 years and beyond.

Seminar Outline

• Early developments and evolution: weapon combat performance, air burst effects of EMP
• Civil aviation incidents
• ECM/ECCM pending obsolescence
• High Power Microwaves: Available HPM sources, propagation considerations, lethality modes, systems in development, countermeasures
• Ultra-wide band signals: Unique characteristics, eigenvalue IFF analysis, communications jamming,
• High Energy Lasers: Technological choices, propagation limitations, performance trade-offs
• Critical supporting technologies, lethality mechanism, Russian DEW achievements
• What the future holds

Seminar Materials Provided

Seminar notes and a Certificate

Who Should Attend

Anyone in the commercial or military world dealing with technologies associated with Directed Energy Weapons will find this course helpful in understanding the basis behind the program thrust in DEW.

Instructor(s)

Fred Levien is the founding Chairman of Information Warfare at the US Naval Postgraduate School in California. He has also taught and conducted research in Directed Energy Weapons at NPS since 1990. He is a well known EW lecturer and writer in the United States and overseas, and uthored a book on Microwaves for Artech House. Prior to joining the NPS faculty he worked for companies in the Silicon Valley.