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Directorate Wants to Change View of Nonlethal Weapons

Modern warfare is often characterized by heavy firepower such as guns, tanks, and attack aircraft. But as the United States faces operations in the “gray zone” — actions that remain below the level of conventional armed conflict — there is an increasing need for nonlethal options. In charge of the Pentagon’s effort to develop such

Better Tools Along the Border

ANALYSIS/OPINION: Innocents being used as human shields is not new. Placing police and security forces into positions where they are portrayed as brutal thugs in the media didn’t start with the recent incident last month, when tear gas was used on the Mexican border. The battles in the summer of 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia, saw

DoD Seeking Sources for Perimeter Security, Non-Lethal Vehicle Interdiction

The Department of Defense (DoD), Washington Headquarters Services (WHS), Acquisition Directorate (AD) is seeking information on commercially available Non-Lethal vehicle interdiction products and technologies on behalf of the Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA). PFPA is interested in proven solutions that ideally have been fielded with other organizations and could potentially enhance the ability to further