All Systems Go: Navy's Laser Weapon Ready for Summer Deployment
http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=80172
The Laser Weapon System (LaWS) temporarily installed aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105) in San Diego, Calif., is a technology demonstrator built by the Naval Sea Systems Command from commercial fiber solid state lasers, utilizing combination methods developed at the Naval Research Laboratory. LaWS can be directed onto targets from the radar track obtained from a MK 15 Phalanx Close-In Weapon system or other targeting source. The Office of Naval Research's Solid State Laser (SSL) portfolio includes LaWS
AFGSC releases 2014 Strategic Master Plan
http://www.afgsc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123406380