Directed Energy Outreach
The Directed Energy Outreach
Campaign has been successfully educating decision makers and warfighters on RF and laser directed energy weapons
technologies and capabilities since January 2009. DE Outreach provides an opportunity for the DE community from government, academia and
industry across the United States to educate senior decision makers at the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill,
including the opportunity to exhibit mature DE technologies.
This (11 Mb pdf) DE Outreach Annual Publication summarizes activities
conducted by the campaign participants in 2019.
(A briefing summarizing early DE Outreach activities is available here.)
Directed Energy to DC Exhibitions
The most extensive activity of DE Outreach has been the Directed Energy to District of Columbia Educational Exhibitions, or DE2DC. The
schedule for these events has included an exhibition and reception on Capitol Hill and a more extensive exhibition of
DE hardware in the courtyard of the Pentagon. The activities on Capitol Hill and at the Pentagon are usually held on two
independent days in the same week in the Spring. Recent events have been coordinated with the Directed Energy Summit, which was founded by
the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Analysis and Booz Allen Hamilton.
The DE2DC events were held annually from 2012 through 2019 and are expected to resume in the future. A summary of results
from the 2019 event which occurred prior to the COVID-19 pandemic is available for reference here.
DE Outreach is managed by Cristina Crowson, Director of Education & Outreach for DEPS. If you would like to participate in the campaign and DE2DC, please get in touch with her. The campaign kicks off each
year with a planning meeting held at the Directed Energy Systems Symposium in the fall.
Directed Energy Caucus
The Directed Energy Caucus was formed in Congress in 2011 in recognition of the
importance of this potentially game changing technology.
The Caucus watches over DE issues on Capitol Hill and has
served as the Capitol host for DE2DC.
The list to the right shows the current members.
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Prior DE Caucus Co-Chair, Representative Langevin, at DE2DC.
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DE equipment attracts attention at the Pentagon.
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Directed Energy Caucus Members
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- John Garamendi (co-chair), D-CA
- Doug Lamborn (co-chair), R-CO
- Robert Aderholt, R-AL
- Jim Banks, R-IN
- Scott DesJarlais, R-TN
- Martin Heinrich, D-NM
- Ted Lieu, D-CA
- Ben Ray Luján, D-NM
- Donald Norcross, D-NJ
- Scott Perry, R-PA
- Mike Rogers, R-AL
- David Schweikert, R-AZ
- Austin Scott, R-GA
- Joe Wilson, R-SC
- Rob Wittman, R-VA
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