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The U.S. is building its laser dome—one contract at a time

This article is republished with permission from  Laser Wars , a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. The threat of low-cost weaponized drones may grow more urgent by the day, but the United States’  nascent laser dome  is slowly but surely expanding to meet it. In a new request for information (RFI)  published  on July 20, the U.S. Coast Guard’s Research and Development Center stated that it is “interested” in high-energy lase

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Published: 23 July 2026
Source: Fast Company Tech
Category: News
Topics: Military & security · Environment
Retrieved: 25 July 2026

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ethics.ai (23 July 2026), “The U.S. is building its laser dome—one contract at a time,” evidence record 13267, https://ethics.ai/record/13267 (originally published by Fast Company Tech).

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