5th Annual Directed Energy Symposium

As the future battlefield becomes increasingly more complex and technologically advanced, the joint forces are aggressively pursuing the development of directed energy weapons to maintain relevance in the fight. DSI’s 2022 Directed Energy Symposium will explore the increasing need to develop and deploy directed energy capabilities as a complement to kinetic systems to boost the U.S.’s ability to project power and deterrence.

Directed Energy weapons have the potential to provide low cost, high capacity capabilities to defend against emerging enemy missiles threats and the rise of non-state actors utilizing commercial UAV platforms. The pace at which America’s enemies are developing these new systems and tactics will require the US to ramp up its own development of directed energy systems and move this technology from the labs to the battlefield. Directed Energy weapons have the potential to counter the advantage that emerging technologies have provided potential enemies and shift the balance back to the US Warfighter.

This year’s event will focus on the increasing need across the military services to develop and field directed energy weapons to distract, disengage, or destroy enemy missiles, ISR systems, UAS, and other threats. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from and ask questions to senior leadership on what each service is doing programmatically to advance DEW capabilities.