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Gary Peters: “The DoD has set a timeline of 36 months for accelerating…”

Featuring: Gary Peters, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Michigan

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'We're Way Behind Right Now': Gary Peters Asks Pentagon Officials About Directed Energy Weapons

Published | Video Starts at 02:03

But we've also developed a joint Interagency Task Force 401 to collate all these different technologies so that we have bigger demand signals which encourages industry to produce more and we get scale economies on that. But let me jump in. The DoD has set a timeline of 36 months for accelerating [directed energy weapon development]. this. That's like light years compared to what we've seen in the past. What's different? How are we going to hit the that hopefully we do even shorter than that. (02:03–02:08)

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Asserts that the Department of Defense has a 36-month timeline for accelerating directed energy weapon development.

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