United States, June 10 -- Coherent Aerospace & Defense, Murrieta, California, is awarded a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the SONGBOW: Pulsed Fiber Lasers and Directed Energy Subsystems with High Bandwidth Wavefront Control Project. This contract provides for the development of pulsed fiber lasers for remote sensing and illumination and to further the development of a 400 kilowatt (kW) directed-energy subsystem by integrating a 50-kW laser with a beam-control assembly. Work will be performed in Murrieta, California, and is expected to be completed in January 2027. The total cumulative value of this contract, including a 20-month base period with one 11-month and one 18-month option periods which will run concurrently, is $29,981,651. Fisc...