Are Laser Weapons on DOGE's Pentagon Chopping Block?

Elon Musk’s efficiency brigade is targeting the Defense Department for cuts.

The US Army’s Directed Energy Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense (DE M-SHORAD) system. (US Army photo)

DOGE has come for the Pentagon.

The Department of Government Efficiency – the temporary organization led by billionaire Elon Musk and tasked with halving the United States’ $2 trillion budget deficit – is already starting to reshape the Defense Department…