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Future Army Leaders Discuss Future Technologies with Today's Experts

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Eight cadets and four West Point faculty members met with members of SMDC/ARSTRAT's Technical Center to discuss laser projects the cadets have been working on.

"We have a cadet team here today that has been working on some high-energy laser weapon research, and they are going to brief their work to the experts here at SMDC, get some feedback from them, and hope some of the work they have produced can be of value to the command," Lt. Col. John Hartke '88, professor of photonics at West Point, said. "The command has always treated us very well. It is always great working with SMDC and one of the great things is that SMDC actually has an office at West Point. The office there always helps us with the synergy between the work we are doing at the academy and the work that SMDC is doing.

"We are looking forward to a great interaction, and it is going to be good to work with the experts who are here -- the people who are doing this every day," he added. "I have five young men who are about to graduate in 30 days and go out to be lieutenants in the Army. Their exposure to SMDC, its mission, and the development of high-energy laser weapons is of great value because when they go out into the Army and they start seeing SMDC people around, they have an understanding of what the people here are doing to help them in the field."

Read more from USASMDC/ARSTRAT Public Affairs

You can also read more about Hartke and other ways West Point is providing intellectual capital for the Army in the Summer 2013 issue of West Point magazine, out this July.


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