L3Harris warns lasers will push U.S. Navy power limits
L3Harris Technologies says it supplies the power distribution systems and universal modular masts on every Virginia-class submarine in the U.S. Navy fleet, and the company is now carrying that work into the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine program while preparing for the heavier electrical loads expected from directed energy weapons and other new naval systems. The [โฆ]
The U.S. Navy has hired the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory to look for weaknesses that adversaries could exploit against American submarines and other assets used in subsea and seabed warfare, under a contract worth up to $47.7 million announced by the Department of War on Oct. 21. The laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, will [โฆ]