1. Non-Lethal Weapons: An Industry View
Michael W. Booen
4 November 2003

2. Denying the Enemy Sanctuary
Weather
JSOW
Night
LANTIRN
Integrated Air Defense
Stealth

3. What is Plan B?

4. New Warfighter Capability?
What if we had a zero collateral damage, speed
of light capability to use where conventional
precision strike munitions can’t be used.
What if we could build a non-lethal, speed of
Light capability to sort terrorists from
non-threats in a post-Iraq type environment.
What if we had a lethal, speed of light
capability, which increases target per sortie
and enhances weapon to target matching.

5. Lethal and non-lethal options
Force Protection
Mission
Leap Ahead
Technologies
DEW
USS Cole Bomb Damage 10/12/00 - Aden, Yemen

6. 1966 – Non-Lethal Weapons Become A Part of the America Lexicon
Phaser
1966 – Non-Lethal Weapons Become A Part of the America Lexicon
Now let’s go ahead a few years to after a long and bloody second world war, a police action and what, at the time was the beginning of a long protracted conflict, and an on-going cold war. Popular fiction continued to inspire a following of the ray gun. Now, however emphasis shifted from death as the primary weapon function. Here, in 1966 we see one of the first applications of non-lethal weapons.

7. The Radio Gun – The Silent Weapon of the Future
June 1928
Radio Gun
About 1922 the world was startled to read of an actual invention called a “death ray”. Excitement petered out when inquiring reporters learned that no demonstrations of the ray’s effectiveness could be given and that the inventor himself was about the only person who had ever been convinced of its effectiveness.
This was followed six years later in June 1928 by an article on “The Radio Gun – The Silent Weapon of the Future”.
Interestingly, the article goes on to discuss research into “ultra-short radio waves” (which today we might call microwaves). Like the heat ray and the death ray, the emphasis of the radio gun was on lethality. In fact, the subtitle of the Radio Gun article was “How Concentrated Radio Impulses Might be made to Act as “Death Rays”.
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8. Today – Active Denial Technology
Millimeter Waves Heat Skin Causing Thermally Induced Intolerable Pain
ADT test on volunteer human test subject.
Before human testing and field demonstrations were allowed, there were years of laboratory biological effects work. A preliminary legal review has been conducted which identified that there was no impediment to further development.

9. Technology Advances
Effects, Sources, and Antenna Advances Enable Application
Technology Demonstrator
Bio-Effects Understanding
Source
Antenna
Illuminated Silhouettes: Narrow Beam Discriminates Targets
Ground-based Active Denial Technology offers the longest range non-lethal weapon option currently under development. This technology has been safely and effectively demonstrated at full operational weapons parameters (power and range) on more than 80 volunteer test subjects in the field. Critical technologies, including the mm-wave source, the antenna, the beam transport system, and the biological effects, were successfully demonstrated in a ten month long field test program in The results showed a safe, controllable, discriminate effect on targeted personnel.

10. Status
Human effects work, field demonstrations, and system tests continuing with containerized technology demonstrator
Development of a ground based Active Denial System approved as an Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD)
Design, fabricate, deliver, & test a HMMWV mounted ADS
Active Denial Technology has been demonstrated in the field at militarily useful power and range. The technology demonstrator system will continue to be used in the field as a technology test bed and effects demonstration and testing device. An ACTD has been approved that will develop, build, and test a HE-HMMWV VMADS. Active Denial Technology will offer critically needed long-range non-lethal weapons capability for the U.S. military.

11. Active Denial Applications
Naval Harbor Defense
Marine Force Protection Embassy Defense
Air Force Airborne Applications
Army/Marines Urban Warfare
Force Protection Battle Lab (FPBL)

12. Additional Near Term Platforms

13. What is Industry Looking for?
A Few good……champions!
Essential for breaking out new technology
Requires senior, vocal support from uniformed services
Lest we forever are “9 months away….”
Some level of focused R&D
IRAD much easier to justify to industry leadership if the customer is spending HIS scarce resources on technology of interest
If you POM it, they will come
Sends clear message to corporate leadership, congress …and vice versa….

14. DEW Changes the Game . . .
“Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the changes in
the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt
themselves after the changes occur.” - Douhet

15. What will be the first fielded directed energy weapon system?