Naval Postgraduate School Support Task
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2000-03
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Schäfer Corporation
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The purpose of this task was to provide lecturing and curriculum development support, as needed, to the Naval Postgraduate Schools Physics DepartmentWeapons Curriculum in the area of High Energy Laser systems. The lecture covered the basic elements of how an HEL weapon works, described the types of lasers which have achieved high average power, showed results from a few MIRACLSLBD tests, showed top-level budgets for DoDs MEL programs over the past three decades, and briefly described the Airborne Laser Program, the Space Based Laser Program, and THEL. While at NPS, work was initiated with faculty members on developing a course outline in Directed Energy. NPS Weapon System faculty are developing a curriculum called System Engineering Integration for Navy Unrestricted Line Officers. The stated goal is ..... to enable the student to exploit emerging technologies to achieve war-fighting advantages. Our nations approach to winning conflicts through technological superiority requires Naval Officers to function using highly complex, integrated weapon systems. This necessitates, however, a firm grounding in math, physics and engineering disciplines to understand weapon system limitations and to obtain full benefit from their capabilities.
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Final Report - Naval Research Laboratory Contract N00014-97-D-2014/002
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Schafer Corporation
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N00014-97-D-2014/002
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27 p.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.