PROJECT POWER: Raytheon Secures $10M DARPA Contract for Wireless Airborne Energy Webs

The Project Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER), "aims to establish more dynamic energy transport across air, space, maritime, land, and undersea domains.”

A two-year, $10 million DARPA contract was recently received by U.S. defense contractor RTX Raytheon“to design and develop a wireless airborne relay system to deliver energy into contested environments.”

The new program, known as the Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) seeks to harness power beaming to achieve rapid energy transfer within a …