Opportunities for Industry Colonel David Karcher Director, Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate

1. Opportunities for Industry Colonel David Karcher Director, Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate UNCLASSIFIED

2. Today’s Themes • Highlighted the importance of NLW’s to the warfighter • NLWs have and will save lives • Showed the span of non-lethal technologies and the types of capabilities the DoD is currently exploring • Human Effects are important! • Revealed the growing interest and awareness at the OSD level on the role and importance of non-lethal weapons • Common agreement: Non-lethal weapons must move beyond bean bag rounds into advanced technology UNCLASSIFIED

3. DoD NLW Definition “Weapons that are explicitly designed and primarily employed so as to incapacitate personnel or materiel, while minimizing fatalities, permanent injury to personnel, and undesired damage to property and the environment.” Non-Lethal Weapons Core Capabilities • Counter Personnel • Deny Access • Clear Facilities • Crowd Control • Incapacitate • Counter Material • Area Denial air, land, sea • Disable / Neutralize Equipment & Facilities 3 UNCLASSIFIED

4. NLW Are Increasingly Relevant Across the Spectrum of Conflict NLWs allow the political & warfighting leadership critical options for conducting operations in the 21st century MILITARY PRESENCE LETHAL FORCE CAPABILITY GAP F o r c e C o n t i n u u m Deter Dissuade Defeat Neutralize without Destroying Control group movements Target selected individuals Clear facilities 4 UNCLASSIFIED

5. USD(P) JNLWP Management Structure “Policy Oversight” “Principal Oversight” USD(AT&L) Mr. Wynne Chairman DC, PPO (USMC) Mr. Feith Senior Steering Committee Executive Agent CMC Army Navy Marines IPT Air Force Integrated Product Team * X IPT SOCOM Coast Guard Director, JNLWD JNLW DIRECTORATE Navy Marines Army Army Air Force Navy Marines Joint Coordination & Integration Group JCIG Air Force Coast Guard Coast Guard SOCOM X :Non-Voting Members -OSD, DOS, DOJ, DOE Combatant Commander and Joint Staff reps * Integrated Product Team provides guidance and approves JNLWP budget UNCLASSIFIED

6. Roles of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate • To serve as the DoD focal point for matters pertaining to NLWs • To integrate Services’s NLW efforts • To leverage developing/emerging technologies that have application across the spectrum of war • To conduct liaison with industry, academia, other US government agencies, and other nations • To conduct the day-to-day management activities of the JNLW Program UNCLASSIFIED

7. How Industry Can Help • Understanding our need • Creating new and innovative concepts • Educating the DoD NLW Community on applicable Industry capabilities • Submitting white papers, proposals to the DoD NLW Community UNCLASSIFIED

8. The DoD NLW Community NTIC at UNH TACOM-ARDEC Picatinny, NJ T3Battle Lab Ft Dix, NJ • Marine Corps Research University • at Penn State USA Research Lab Adelphia, MD NLW Test Center of Choice Aberdeen, MD - Maneuver Support Battle Lab - INIWIC - USAMPS Ft.L. Wood, MO - NAVSEA - DARPA - Homeland Defense Washington D.C. Air Force Research Laboratory DEHA, HERTF Kirtland AFB, NM MarCorSysCom Quantico, VA JNLWD Quantico, VA Dismounted Battle Space Battle Lab Ft.Benning, GA - Naval Surface Warfare Ctr Dahlgren, VA Air Force Security Forces Lackland AFB, San Antonio, TX Human Effects Center of Excellence Brooks C-B San Antonio, TX - JFCOM Norfolk, VA Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Bioeffects: HEDO Lasers, HEDR Radiofrequency Brooks C-B San Antonio, TX UNCLASSIFIED

9. Meet the DoD NLW Community Free Standing Display Free Standing Display Free Standing Display Free Standing Display Free Standing Display Free Standing Display Free Standing Display Chair Chair Chair Chair Chair Chair Chair Chair Chair Chair Chair Chair Chair Chair Chair Chair Chair Chair Chair Chair Chair USCG USAF USA JNLWD USMC SOCOM USN UNCLASSIFIED

10. Industry Opportunity:JNLW Technology Investment Program (TIP) • Purpose: Identify new technology solutions to meet current or future non-lethal mission needs and requirements • Process: • Annual or biennial solicitation • Topics are based on Service priorities • Focuses on 1-2 year efforts to explore promising concepts / technologies • Provides Technology Push for novel NLW solutions • Successful TIP Efforts • Can transition into new programs or be incorporated into existing programs UNCLASSIFIED

11. Current TIP Solicitation • Released: 31 October 03 • Closes: 01 December 03 • Solicitation Topics: • Critical Counter-Personnel Needs: • Deny area to personnel in an urban / suburban /aquatic environment, • Clear a facility without entering, • Separate combatants from non-combatants, and • Render an individual or group incapable of performing an activity • Critical Counter-Vehicle Needs: • Stop a vehicle in an urban / suburban environment at range, • Deny access to bridges and, • Stop water surface and sub-surface vessels UNCLASSIFIED

12. TIP Solicitation Information • Links to the TIP BAA with detailed submission instructions: • www.fedbizopps.netor • www.jnlwd.usmc.mil • Solution focus must include: • Proposed non-lethal payload, • Target effects, and • Effectiveness in addressing warfighter needs • Proposals that address delivery systems or methods, without detailed consideration to the non-lethal payload, its effects and effectiveness, will not be considered for award. Human Effects are Important! UNCLASSIFIED

13. Summary Non-lethal Weapons are a new and emerging capability for the DoD Industry’s help is needed in bringing this important capability to the warfighter “If war is forced upon us, we will fight in a just cause and by just means – sparing, in every way we can, the innocent.” (President George W. Bush) “The principle that civilians must be protected lies at the heart of international law of armed conflict.” (Secretary Donald Rumsfeld) “The development and acquisition of non-lethal weapons systems will expand the number of options to commanders confronted with situations in which the use of deadly force is inappropriate.” (General Michael Hagee, Commandant, USMC) UNCLASSIFIED