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	Dr. Shawana P. Johnson

"So what's next? I can't leave this topic area without talking a little bit about 'Star Trek' and particle beams and phasers. And particle beam weapons are a directed-energy weapon. It uses high-energy beams or neutral particles to damage a target. And they can be used to penetrate very deeply and deposit their energy in a very narrow comb, causing immediate or severe damage such as an explosion. And, they're used for anti-missile defense and many of these capabilities are doing research for electron microscopes, cancer treatment, and x-rays. And the phasers, there really is a multi-mode directed energy armament system called MDS. It's an ultra-short laser pulse. It's used to create an ionized channel, and the entire focus here is to directly work with heating a target and disrupting its molecular structure. So what I always say when I get to see things like this that are under prototype or longtime science investment, it's just we're trying to boldly go where no other commercial DEW research capability has gone before." – Dr. Shawana P. Johnson, CEO, Global Marketing Insights, Inc, USA