SBIR/STTR Award attributes
Modern military success is as much about diplomacy, and gaining the support of local citizens as it is combat, further non-combatant casualties and collateral damage can result in significant complications in winning the battle of public perception. This type of warfare has led to an increased focus on the use of less-lethal weapons, to reduce collateral damage in urban battlespaces .These changes in warfare require significant advancements in available weaponry and resources. The Joint Non-Legal Weapons Program (JNLWP) was founded on the premise of minimizing civilian casualties and collateral damage. Within the modern urban battlefield, the need often arises for weapons capable of incapacitating targeted personnel quickly, while minimizing fatalities, permanent injury, and damage to non-combatant assets within the battlespace. To address the needs laid out in the Air Force solicitation AF181-002, Hyperion proposes the investigation of a promising technology originally developed for the Armys Intense Electromagnetic Pulse (IMP) Grenade program to produce a requisite NSEP source that could meet both the pulse parameters of a medical research device while providing a path of scalability to match the volume constraints of a future 40mm munition delivered non-lethal device
