DARPA’s POWER Program Aims For Airborne Wireless Energy Network

DARPA wants to use UAVs as laser energy relays.

 

Credit: DARPA
DARPA has launched its Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program, an effort to demonstrate the long-distance wireless transmission of energy using lasers and UAVs as relays. In particular, the research agency wants proposals for developing airborne optical energy relays that would...
Garrett Reim

Based in the Seattle area, Garrett covers the space sector and advanced technologies that are shaping the future of aerospace and defense, including space startups, advanced air mobility and artificial intelligence.

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