When I got my first job out of college i was working for a lithography company designing laser/optical delivery systems for machines that make microchips. Our biggest buyers were intel and amd.

My office mate and I were hired at the same time. He was 10 years older than I was, and moved east from nevada. Long short , I was reading an article from popular science mag about orbital based laser defense platforms. He saw it and He told me he couldnt tell me much, but that he worked on the corrective optics systems that would prevent the laser beam to diverge while entering the atmosphere. Needless to say the company got everything to work and has satellites in orbit that would neutralize any icbm if launched at our country.

If anyone fucks around... they would find out quick.