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.