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The Helix project is a high energy

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laser that is sponsored by Office of

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Naval Research to develop a

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expeditionary laser weapon system for

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air defense . It's still the

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same thing . Helix is designed to

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defend against group one into U .

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Uh that is the primary mission of the

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system . We are

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so group one and group two UAs are uh

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small drones . Uh Typically the size

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that you could buy commercially uh off

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the shelf . Uh that is a predominant

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threat in most of the theaters uh that

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the marines are going to be facing now

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and in future conflicts and you get any

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one of those three , the system can't

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recover . So the reason why our team

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came out to Yuma is to partner with the

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Marine Corps and to integrate in the WT

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I exercise . The main purpose for this

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demonstration was to show the

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capability with the intent to come back

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out for future evolutions to tie into

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the Marine command and control system

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and start to develop kill chain and

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data sharing capabilities .

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The biggest need is coming out here to

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partner with the Marine Corps showing

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off the capability for the Marines to

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see how they can potentially get this

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capability into the fleet and how they

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can use it in the future . I

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think the most important thing for us

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coming out here is the partnership

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between the Marine Corps and the Navy

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to develop capabilities like Helix

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and to increasingly improve on those

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capabilities , reducing the size weight

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so that the Marine Corps has the

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capability to defend against threats .

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Like I just mentioned in the group one ,

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group two U , this is really exciting

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for us to come out here and integrate

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into WT I and we're looking forward to

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continuing the relationship and uh

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moving this technology forward in the

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future .