The Army's All-Domain Sensing Cross-Functional Team will focus on the challenge of building an architecture of sensors that can rapidly distribute data.
Laser and microwave weapons are considered critical elements of layered defense, or having different countermeasures ready to thwart different threats.
The move comes a little more than a week after the Defense Department rolled out its fiscal 2025 budget blueprint, which featured $14.5 billion for cyber.
Footage showed an Altius-700M shooting out of a ground-based launcher, cutting through the air and then crashing into a mock surface-to-air missile system.
The Army will come together with joint partners this summer to tackle how to sustain forces during the first few months of large-scale combat operations.
The Army is changing directions in its effort to field a long-range cannon, scrapping its 58-caliber prototype in favor of considering available systems.