The Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate, on behalf of the Commandant of the Marine Corps,
who serves as the Executive Agent for the Department of Defense Non-Lethal Weapons Program,
leads the Department of Defense in the identification, evaluation,
recommendation and development of non-lethal weapons to enable their employment across the range of military operations.
The Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program, including its member Services,
has identified several specific capability requirements that non-lethal weapons can address.
These requirements include both counter-personnel and counter-materiel tasks.
The Directorate also posts solicitations
for science and technology development and for demonstrations of next-generation non-lethal weapons. |
- Confined Space: An area of varying dimensions/size that has limited or restricted avenues to enter, egress or evade engagement.
- Counter-Materiel: Directed effects against materiel (vehicles, vessels, aircraft, buildings, facilities, structures, weapon systems, ammunition and weapons of mass destruction, etc.). Note: Non-lethal counter-materiel effects must remain non-lethal to personnel.
- Counter-Personnel: Directed effects against individual(s) that will not result in permanent injury.
- Deny: An action to hinder or prevent the use of space, personnel or facilities.
- Disable: To render ineffective or unable to perform.
- Divert: To turn aside from a course or direction.
- Facility: A real property entity consisting of one or more of the following: a building, a structure, a utility system, pavement and underlying land.
- Few: Consists of two to seven targets.
- Large Vehicles: Semi-trailers, both boxed and bulk cargo.
- Large Vessels: Vessels more than 100 feet long.
- Many: Consists of seven or more targets.
- Medium vehicles: Small box vans up to and including water/fuel trucks.
- Move: To go or pass to another place or in a certain direction with a continuous motion.
- Non-lethal weapons: Weapons, devices and munitions that are explicitly designed and primarily employed to incapacitate targeted personnel or materiel immediately, while minimizing fatalities, permanent injury to personnel and undesired damage to property in the target area or environment. Non-lethal weapons are intended to have reversible effects on personnel or materiel.
- Open Space: Any area large enough to allow a target, relative to its size, ultimate avenues to enter, egress or evade engagement (e.g., fields, rural roads, desert, etc.).
- Single: Consists of one target.
- Small vehicles: Four-wheeled cargo vans and smaller.
- Small vessels: Vessels equal to and less than 100 feet in length.
- Stop: 1) To hinder or prevent the passage of .2) To make impassable: choke, obstruct. 3) To cause to give up or change a course of action; to keep from carrying out a proposed action: restrain, prevent. 4) To cause to cease: check, suppress.
- Suppress: To degrade the ability of an individual(s) to take specified action.
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