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. The DE Educational Outreach Publication summarizes activities conducted by 2025 DEPS Sponsors as well as government and academic partners.
Download the Outreach PublicationDIRECTED 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.