Joint Non Lethal Weapons

Abstract

This project funds the research and development of next-generation NLWs and includes performing analysis, technical development efforts, and modeling and simulation necessary to ensure optimum weaponization and use of these NLWs. Investment areas include research and development of next-generation NLWs such as: non-lethal directed energy weapons (lasers, millimeter wave and high power microwave) for counter-personnel and counter-materiel missions; non-lethal counter-personnel technologies (acoustic, optical, and human electro-muscular disruption technologies), and advanced non-lethal materiels (including materiels for vehicle/vessel stopping and counter-facility applications). Next-generation NLW systems focus on long-range localized NL effects to identified threat individuals (or groups of individuals) and/or their threat weapons systems operating in complicated environments such as urban areas, crowds, buildings, vehicles, vessels, and also in close proximity to high-value civilian facilities. The increase in the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons funding from FY 2013 to FY 2014 is due to the initiation and expanded evaluation of alternative non-lethal prototype technologies offering operational military utility with the goal of transitioning the best candidates to higher levels of technology development and acquisition. The FY 2014 to FY 2015 decrease in the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Technology Development PE is due to a funding reduction addressed in Deputy Secretary of Defense Memo, "Strategic Choices and Management Review Resulting Direction and Guidance". This reduction slows the advanced prototype development and demonstration of a smaller, lighter active denial technology demonstrator based on most promising and mature 95 GHZ source technology. It also delays the schedule of the modular prototyping of High Power Microwave (HPM) component hardware and defers initiation of behavior response research and analysis.

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Document Details

Document Type
Project
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2015
Source ID
3022_0603651M_3_1319_PB_2015

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Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Naval Engineering and Maritime Security

Technology Areas

  • 5G
  • 5G - DoD 5G Program
  • Directed Energy

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