ABCNews.com has a story on space weaponization, with the the Near Field Infra Red Experiment as the lead (the author called me for a comment, but alas I was in Switzerland).
The story even has “one senior government official and defense expert” describing the program as “crossing the Rubicon into space weaponization.” I think I might have tempered that by pointing out that the KV doesn’t have an axial stage that would permit engagement under real world conditions and MDA isn’t shooting to kill in the simulated engagement.
No mention of autonomous proximity operations, either.