Lasers Destroy Drones as Additive Manufacturing Builds Them NPS Accelerates Emerging Technology at JIFX to Fulfill US Navy and DODs Critical Needs- Top left: A Group 1 quadcopter burns after being engaged by Aurelius Systems’ laser weapon system (LWS). Bottom left: Side-by-side comparison of quadcopters with and without laser damage. Right: Modular airframe components of Firestorm Labs’ Tempest drone built by its xCell expeditionary additive manufacturing station. Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) runs the quarterly Joint Interagency Field Experimentation event at Camp Roberts, which was recently held Feb. 3-7. NPS, located in Monterey, California, provides defense-focused graduate education, including classified studies and…

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