Advanced Electro-Optical System (AEOS) telescope

Air Force Research Laboratory’s 3.6-meter, 75-ton Advanced Electro-Optical System (AEOS) telescope under laser illumination at its Directed Energy Directorate’s Air Force Maui Optical and Surveillance Site, Maui, Hawaii. The illumination resulted from the multi-wave length laser propagation experiments that were completed at over 10,000 feet and over a 90-mile path between Mauna Loa on the island of Hawaii and the Air Force site atop the extinct volcano, Haleakala, on Maui, Hawaii. U.S. Air Force Photo by Rob Ratkowski

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704th Test Group Operating Location-AA

Published Jan. 12, 2017
By Raquel March
AEDC/PA

ARNOLD AIR FORCE BASE, TENN. -- The 704th Test Group at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, and a unit of AEDC, conducts directed energy and high energy laser testing at a geographically separated facility known as Operating Location (OL)-AA.
Located at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, OL-AA is the test and evaluation liaison to the Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate.

The DED develops and transitions technologies in four core technical competencies: lasers systems, high power electromagnetics, weapons modeling and simulation, and directed energy and electro-optics for space superiority.

AFRL pioneered the first and only megawatt class airborne laser and is a world leader in ground-based space imaging using adaptive optics with a 3.5-meter telescope in New Mexico and a 3.6-meter telescope in Hawaii.

The Directorate is transitioning game-changing counter-electronics weapon technologies through programs such as CHAMP, or Counter-electronics High-powered Advanced Missile Project, which can disable electronic systems with minimum collateral damage.

Advanced Electro-Optical System (AEOS) telescope